ICYMI - Why Nuclear War Looks Inevitable
Angry Planet
Matthew Gault
4.3 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Several recent developments have the potential to move the hands of the nuclear doom clock closer to midnight. In this episode from a while back, we talked with the Washington Post's Dan Zak about his reporting on the potential for nuclear war. What he had to say wasn't cheering.
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| 0:19.0 | The opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the participants, not of Reuters News. A terrorist does not have land to protect or lives to save and so they in a way can't be deterred. |
| 0:30.0 | That is where my anxiety kind of stems from. |
| 0:34.0 | North Korea isn't the only country |
| 0:41.0 | North Korea isn't the only country looking to improve its nuclear arsenal. |
| 0:47.0 | The United States is tinkering with its bombs in ways that some foreign policy experts fear could destabilize the world. |
| 0:54.3 | This week on war college, we look at just how close the world has come to nuclear war in the |
| 0:59.3 | past and whether it can be avoided in the future. |
| 1:03.0 | You're listening to Reuters War College, a discussion of the world in conflict, |
| 1:09.0 | focusing on the stories behind the front lines. |
| 1:12.0 | Here are your hosts, Jason Fields, and Matthew Galt. |
| 1:17.0 | Hello and welcome to War College. I'm Jason Fields with Reuters. And I'm |
| 1:23.0 | Matthew Galt with War is Boring. |
| 1:25.0 | Dan Zach is a reporter with the Washington Post |
| 1:28.0 | and an expert on nuclear security. |
| 1:30.0 | He's just published a book. |
| 1:32.0 | It's a little bit of a mouthful, but I'll do my best. |
| 1:35.0 | All mighty, courage, resistance, and an existential peril in the nuclear age. |
| 1:41.0 | That makes him the perfect person to talk to as the US |
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