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Roger Wicker: “How prepared are we to respond--to prevent--not to respond in a mutually-assured-destruction manner, but to defend…”

On the recordJanuary 20, 2016
How prepared are we to respond--to prevent--not to respond in a mutually-assured-destruction manner, but to defend against such a thing?
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

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Wicker questions the preparedness against electromagnetic pulse threats.

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