Inside the Three Russian Nuclear Threats (with Senator Tim Kaine)
In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt
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🗓️ 14 March 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Andy gets to the bottom of Vladimir Putin's escalating nuclear threats with U.S. Senator Tim Kaine and Hans Kristensen, Director of the Nuclear Information Project with the Federation of American Scientists. Plus, Senator Kaine details his personal two-year-long struggle with long COVID and his new bill, the Comprehensive Access to Resources and Education (CARE) for Long COVID Act.
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- Learn more about the attack on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant: https://www.npr.org/2022/03/11/1085427380/ukraine-nuclear-power-plant-zaporizhzhia
- Listen to Hans talking about Russia’s nuclear arsenal on NPR: https://www.npr.org/2022/03/08/1085248170/putin-has-threatened-to-use-his-nuclear-arsenal-heres-what-its-actually-capable-
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| 0:00.0 | Mental health challenges are affecting people in the US at high levels, particularly among |
| 0:05.0 | adolescents. |
| 0:06.0 | At CVS Health, mental health is just as important as physical health. |
| 0:11.0 | That's whether making mental, well-being services more accessible, less complicated, more |
| 0:15.4 | convenient, and more inviting. |
| 0:18.0 | CVS Health is doing this by creating new programs, encouraging care to discussions, and providing |
| 0:23.2 | increased access to digital tools and telehealth services. |
| 0:27.0 | CVS Health is there to help. Learn more at CVS Health.com. |
| 0:31.0 | Let me know. |
| 0:34.0 | Welcome to the bubble. This is your host Andy Slavitt. It's Monday, March 14th, and nothing |
| 1:01.0 | could thrill me less than talking to you about today's topic, which is the nuclear threat |
| 1:05.8 | that we face. I am 55 years old. Depending on how old you are, you may or may not have grown |
| 1:11.5 | up during the Cold War when the topic of nuclear war was on our minds all the time. |
| 1:18.7 | So is the topic of nuclear accidents, three mile island, Chernobyl, and of all the things |
| 1:23.4 | that have been in the news in 2018, 2019, 2021. Now we get a new topic in 2022, which is |
| 1:31.4 | the very real and present danger of nuclear threat. |
| 1:37.4 | And we're going to talk about that today with an amazing guest on the show, Tim Cain, |
| 1:43.2 | the senator from Virginia. You probably know he ran for Vice President 2016 alongside |
| 1:49.2 | Hillary Clinton. He won, but he didn't win a long story there. And he's great. We're going |
| 1:54.8 | to talk to him about a number of things, but we're really going to focus in on some of |
| 1:59.8 | the briefings and some of the threats that are coming to us. And I want you to understand |
| 2:03.7 | them better. I understand them a lot better after talking to Tim and some experts. So there's |
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