so another thing, though, that did come out of this exercise by frank miller is that limited nuclear options, as they were called, suddenly became kind of feasible. we now had a plan where, you know, there are some plans where 20 nuclear weapons are used. before when frank was coming into it -- this is another example of how insane everything was before -- he asked somebody in the defense intelligence agency to examine soviet early warning radar. and he said, okay, how many discreet objects coming through the sky, missiles, could the radar detect and separate until it all just becomes one big blob, you know? how many could there be? and the answer was 200. in other words, if we shot 200 missiles at them, it would look like a mass attack. well, at that time the smallest nuclear option that the united states had would involve 900 missiles. so one reason for 900 missiles -- and this astonished me when i first heard it, and i checked it out with a few people, and it's true. no matter what the option was, whether it was a massive option, a limited option or whatever, icbms, submarine-laun

so frank miller and the staff at the time we had 10000 nuclear weapons. >> because one of frank's sister's want to put 588 it was a whimsical joke but when the cold war was over no need to attack eastern europe anymore they are not our enemy. so by the time bush had the strategic arms reduction they said we don't need any more than this and this continued when obama was president there was another review it was very similar and they went back over every single target and they were able to cut it down by another one third even then they did not reduce it by another third because they were involving the new start treaty there was no point to make unilateral cuts later it is negative incentives that's how many nuclear weapons we have now if we cut was in third to no harm to national security but you don't want to do unilateral cuts. so another thing that did come out of this exercise that limited nuclear options suddenly became feasible so now we have a plan where there were 20 nuclear weapons that before and he asked from the defense intelligence agency for the early-morning radar so how man

a civilian and the pentagon named frank miller and when dick cheney became secretary of defense. he was very different then for what he was as vice president. he had a briefingef from omaha so he derailed all the doctrines written by the secretary of defense with a limited nuclear often's restraining use. and then he goes to cheney and says i don't understand what is going on. and then to go deep so those people in omaha and the went deeper than any civilian ever has. and that level of overkill is astonishing. . . . . and then td something even more profound, more disturbing. at that point, bush was negotiating the strategic arms reduction treaty and the contact if we reduce the number of weapons could you still perform your mission and the senior officer said we don't really ask that question. what we do is we take the weapons that we are given and assigned them to the targets on the list, so in other words, at no point in the actual operational level with how this is being handled, at no point had anybodypo been asking how my of these things do we need to detour or fight a nucl

in love with the voices simply for the sheer pleasure of listening to another story written by frank millerchildren we have ever since with mercantile souls and our father exploited or agreed to build up his library and body books to pay for the novels on the cassette. i think her starting salary was about $12 for 60 minutes although my sister naomi was a ruthless negotiator and eventually worked them up to $20 perna tape. pick up theev audio he wanted ad as a side effect has learned -- kids learn to have confidence in their own power of the story of voice. it made him want better from other audio readers. he began to refuse his own novels which is a complete adaptation. in reading his books and fauji changed adaptations of well water book shipping could be pretty turned out a whole thought of other readers. for years franck mueller led his appealing voice to stephen king's words. my dad remarked once when he wrote a news story he would often hear frank mueller reading it back to them in his head. other tales were brought to light by some of the most brilliant readers like george goodell ca