08: The Fatal Competition | The Age of Uncertainty

Duration: 54'02''

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JK Galbraith visits the ruins of postwar Berlin, the corridors of power in the Pentagon and 'the world's largest used plane lot' in his assessment of the contemporary roots of war.

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