strangelove is a fictional absurdities ofhe the arms race.eport from iron mountain is another. has anyone heard of this report? considered a serious report for a short time by many people. reporta manufactured published in 1967 that warned about the economic and political destabilization should permanent peace arise. corporatione rand and other think tanks and exposed the logic of what eisenhower had called the luke perry industrial complex. -- the military-industrial complex. that theme of's, the absurdity of the impossibility of nuclear war had entered into the public realm and become part of popular culture. that created a different atmosphere for politicians that made it and impressed upon them the need to do something more serious about preventing nuclear war. peace advocates had tried to overcome this way of thinking. one group spearheading the effort was the committee for sane policy. this group emerged in 1957. they actually came on the national scene with a huge ad campaign. they took out one page in the new york times and los angele

strangelove, those are the first words in the book.d the last chapter deals with a glittering washington book party. which do you think best describes where we are as a country right now? >> well, you know, i start with a scene in the war room at the pentagon where there is a great debate between steve bannon on one side and jim mattis advertise and rex tillerson on the other side and they're laying out to president trump how the united states is operating in the world and the intent on the bannon side to show we're overextended and the intent on the mattis and tillerson side is to say, look, this is thousand world works, this has worked in our favor since would recall. at the end of that meeting trump blows up and basically says, you know, our allies are ripping us off, china, these trade deficits matter, we're not winning wars and makes it clear front of his war debate six months into his presidency that he is really going to follow the america-first nationalist kind of approach that he campaigned on and that he was going to govern o

strangelove. those are the first words in the book.nd the last chapter deals with a glittering washington book party. which do you think best describes where we are as a country right now? >> well, you know, i mean i start with a scene in the war room of the pentagon. >> yeah. >> where there is a great debate between steve bannon on one side and, you know, jim mattis and rex tillerson on the other side, and really they're laying out to president trump how the united states is operating in the world. and the untent on the bannon side is to show we're overextended and the intent on the tillerson side is to say this is how the world works and it's in our favor since world war ii. at the end, trump blows up and says our allies are ripping us off, and makes it clear in front of his entire war cabinet that he is really going to follow the america first nationalist kind of approach that he campaigned on and that he was going to govern on that. and i think this meeting really was kind of one of the key meetings of his presidency. >> peter berg

strangelove."hose are the first words in the book, and the last chapter deals with a glittering washington book party. which best describes where we as a country right now? >> i start with a scene in the war room of the pentagon where there is a great debate between steve bannon on one side, and jim mattis and rex tillerson on the other. they're laying out to president trump how the united states is operating in the world. and their intent is to say, this is the way the world has worked, in our favor since world war ii. at the end of that meeting, trump blows up saying our allies are ripping us off, we're not winning any wars. he makes it clear in front of the war cabinet that six months into his presidency, he's going to follow the america first nationalist kind of approach that he campaigned on. and that he was going to govern on that. and i think it was one of the key meetings of his presidency. >> the book is "trump and his generals: the cost of chaos." great pleasure having you on, peter. than

leader joe democrat swenson, though i have nicknamed her jo strangelove, attacks corbyn for not sayingn public that it prime minister he would press the nuclear button. saying he is a pacifist, he is this and that, making a nuclear war one of the minor issues in this campaign. i think k she will lose votes fr saying that and i think she might even lose her own seat in scotland -- which is very hostile to new their weapons. it is a crazy campaign. amy: i also want to ask about something us that came up in the debate between johnson and corbin. that is the whole issue of prince andrew. prince andrew singh wednesday he will withdraw from public duties amidst mounting public anger over his longtime friendship with the now deceased serial sexualal predator jeffrey epste. in a bbc interview that aired sunday, prince andrerew denied accusations by virginia roberts who said she was sexually trafficked by epstein and forced to have sex with the prince when she was 17 years old. a photo released by her shows prince andrew standing beside her with his hand around her bare stomach with epstein's l

strangelove, how i learned to love the bomber -- the bombshell trade.certain thing with it. it's the most consequential outcome. china is with the state enterprises. no international the dow, icrosoft, all kinds o others as they kind of retaliate for the huawei zte situation what does that mean? >> this is two steps forward, one step back. i think a lot of the american companies are baking this into their forecast that the growth that you're really seeing from china for the next three to five years, you have to moderate that some of it might be headline news, your software isn't going to be used u.s. is going to have that >> what you're talking about are the highly valued gte. >> they're built in. >> this is another thing investors have to be cautious of it's trieding at 30 times earnings what you have to invest in and your exposure. maybe not just in china, it could be more in europe and the other emerging markets. >> sarat, michael,thank you fo coming in. >> thank you see you later. >>> coming up, to infinity and beyond from jeff bezos to richard bran