Managing the World's WMD Threats: NTI's Laura Holgate

Intelligence Matters

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🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Laura Holgate, former U.S. Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency and Senior Director for Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism and Threat Reduction on President Obama's National Security Council. Holgate, now vice president for materials risk management at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, explains the threats posed by chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons and how the United States, along with international partners, works to contain them. Holgate and Morell assess the United States' approach to some of the most precarious proliferation challenges in the world, including from North Korea, Iran and, more recently, Saudi Arabia.

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0:34.9	Kim Jong-un has nuclear weapons.
0:38.9	He also has ICBMs.
0:40.5	What we don't know is whether he's actually capable of mating those two things together.
0:44.9	The more time he has the closer he's going to get, so I think the challenge is really
0:49.3	to try to find some way to slow that down, derail it, prevent that.
0:54.7	That's not something sanctions can help with.
0:57.9	We're going to need US, Russia, and China to cooperate to oversee the North Koreans
1:03.6	actually dismantling their own warheads and then provide some kind of assurance to the
1:08.9	rest of the world.
1:09.9	I think it's probably safe to assume that you were a supporter of the Iran nuclear deal.
1:16.0	Absolutely.
1:17.0	And why?
1:18.0	Because it bought us time.
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