80 Years After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, New Nuclear Threats Emerge

What A Day

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🗓️ 11 August 2025

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Summary

President Donald Trump is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska this week to discuss a potential end to the war in Ukraine (which Russia started.) To call the meeting ‘high stakes’ would be an understatement — already critics are warning of the potential for a ‘1938 Munich Moment,’ when Britain and France allowed Nazi Germany to take control over a swath then-Czechoslovakia in a bid to preserve peace on the continent. But the parallels to WWII don’t end there. Earlier this month, Trump said nuclear submarines were ‘in the region’ ahead of special envoy Steve Witkoff’s meeting with Putin in Moscow. As we mark 80 years this month since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, historian Garrett Graff, author of the new book ‘The Devil Reached Toward the Sky,’ joins us to talk about what we learned — and we didn’t learn — in the decades since the U.S. dropped those bombs. And in headlines: Thousands of people in Israel demonstrated against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to take control of Gaza City, Trump ramped up threats to take federal control of Washington D.C., and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued to remove 13 Democratic state lawmakers from office amid an ongoing fight over redistricting.

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0:00.0	It's Monday, August 11th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Wadde.
0:05.7	The show that thinks it might know where Venezuela's president, Nicholas Maduro, might be.
0:11.7	On Friday, the Department of Justice announced that there's a $50 million bounty for the president of Venezuela, accusing him of being a narco-trafficker.
0:19.8	Is there a chance that the president of Venezuela is located in...
0:23.2	Venezuela?
0:29.9	On today's show, thousands of people in Israel demonstrate against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya
0:34.6	whose plan to escalate the war in Gaza.
0:37.1	And the redistricting fight in Texas rages on.
0:39.9	But let's start with nuclear weapons.
0:42.0	Yes, nuclear weapons.
0:44.9	President Donald Trump is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska this week
0:49.1	to discuss a potential end of the war in Ukraine, which Russia started.
0:53.5	NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta told CBS's Face the Nation Sunday the meeting is an important step, but not the final one.
1:01.0	What will happen on Friday is testing Putin by President Trump.
1:05.0	And I commend him for the fact that he organized this meeting.
1:09.0	I think it is important.
1:10.0	And obviously when it comes to
1:11.7	peace talks, the ceasefire and what happens after that on territories, on security guarantees for
1:18.3	Ukraine, Ukraine will have to be and will be involved. We'll tell you more about this week's
1:23.5	planned meeting later in the show. But to say its high stakes would be putting it mildly.
1:28.2	Critics are already warning of the potential for a 1938 Munich moment, when Britain and France allowed
1:33.1	Nazi Germany to take control over a swath of what was then Czechoslovakia in a bid to preserve
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