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Brad Sherman: “Diplomatic relations and niceties can be reversed, governments can be overthrown, but nuclear weapons or nuclear weapons…”

On the recordMarch 8, 2023
Diplomatic relations and niceties can be reversed, governments can be overthrown, but nuclear weapons or nuclear weapons technology stays where it is.
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Brad Sherman
Democratic · California

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Sherman highlights the permanence of nuclear weapons technology compared to diplomatic relations.

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