This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

This is CBS, I on the World. I'm John Batchelor.

I welcome my colleague and friend, Henry Sikolsky, then

executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy

Education Center, after the election, questions to be answered over the course of the

administration.

We begin with choices to be made, especially in terms of national security.

The three choices that Henry has agreed to comment upon are space-based military

what platforms nuclear war nuclear arsenal and information war information arsenal the

third being a way of talking about intelligence, gathering surveillance and defense.

Henry, I begin with space because I am a rocket ranger from my childhood.

I believe you are as well.

And you tell me that in the early Trump administration, before the pandemic, there was talk of funding interceptors

in low Earth orbit.

Lower Earth orbit tends to be the battlefield for the future.

What interceptors, what is the expected ambition of the Trump administration in low Earth orbit,

and why? Good evening to you.

Good evening.

It's always a pleasure to be on your show.

Thank you.

In 2019, the administration and the Pentagon put on a large presentation

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