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Subsequent moralizing about nuclear weapons, often by the scientists developing them, pales before Roosevelt’s willingness to act on his gut instinct.

Such outposts provide signals intelligence, particularly on Russia’s Northern Fleet, long-range bombers, missile units and submarines capable of carrying nuclear weapons.

He called for global rules for the use of AI in weapons, and said the issue was "just as urgent as preventing the spread of nuclear weapons".

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The question over how to limit long-range nuclear weapons has become all the more important as the arms-control framework that has regulated the military competition between Washington and Moscow has crumbled over the past decade.

“At the end of the Cold War, global power reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer nuclear weapons,” the film notes in text on screen in its opening moments.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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