Could Russia-Ukraine Go Nuclear? (Robert Wright & Joe Cirincione)

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🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Bob asks Joe: What are the chances this war goes nuclear? ... Joe lays out Russia’s and America’s nuclear arsenals ... What would make Putin roll the nuclear dice? ... Why atrocities in Bucha could make for a longer, bloodier war ... Joe: The US withdrawal from Cold War-era treaties led to the current nuclear arms race ... How US foreign policy laid the ground for Putin’s invasion ... Bob searches for silver linings. Joe sees a darkening cloud. ... Assessing the Biden administration’s foreign policy record ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Blogging Heads TV.
0:08.2	Hi, Joe.
0:10.0	Good morning, Bob.
0:11.3	How you doing?
0:12.3	Just great.
0:13.0	Beautiful day here in Washington, D.C.
0:15.2	Good.
0:15.7	Glad to hear it.
0:16.4	Let me introduce us.
0:17.2	I'm Robert Wright.
0:18.0	This is The Right Show, of which I'm host. I'm also publisher
0:21.8	of the non-zero newsletter. You're Joseph Sirencioni, expert on nuclear weapons, nuclear
0:28.6	proliferation and non-proliferation, arms control, author of the book Bombscare, the History and Future
0:35.2	of Nuclear Weapons. Also, book Nuclear Nightmares, Securing the World Before It is Too Late.
0:41.7	Your fellow at the Quincy Institute, I think you teach it to Georgetown School of Foreign
0:47.1	Service.
0:48.1	And we're going to talk about nuclear weapons and nuclear war, especially as these things pertain to Russia.
0:57.9	I want to start out by talking about what's on a lot of people's minds, which is, is
1:05.3	there a real risk of the current war spinning out of control and leading to the use of nuclear weapons?
1:13.9	You know, what kinds of things could we do to minimize that chance and so on?
1:17.9	So I wanted to start with that.
1:19.3	Like, what is the most likely scenario by which I assume that we're all thinking the U.S. would not be the one to introduce nuclear weapons.
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