Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Monday, July 21st, 2025. This is USA Today is the excerpt.

Today, what nuclear experts are saying about present-day threats plus support for Trump immigration

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And we hear how one state in the South is approaching immigration detention facilities.

Top nuclear experts gathered last week to offer world leaders a playbook for reducing the risk of nuclear war.

I discussed with USA Today White House reporter Davis Winky.

Thanks for joining me, Davis. Good to be back, Daly.

All right, just tell us a bit about this meeting of Nobel Prize winners and nuclear experts in Chicago.

Why was this help? The threat of nuclear war keeps creeping higher and higher in recent years.

So this year, to mark the 80th anniversary of the Trinity

nuclear test near Los Alamos, New Mexico, this group of Nobel laureates assembled in Chicago

and brought together nuclear policy experts, former government officials, diplomats, etc.,

to face down the challenges in reducing the risk of nuclear war right now

and to provide a declaration of policy recommendations

that could help world leaders to reduce that risk.

Well, Davis, in terms of what they functionally did here, it's clear many of them hammered home

the point that international agreements are key to reducing some of the risk of nuclear war.

Let's start with the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty. Can you help us understand what that is

and how did this come up during these discussions? The CTBT, as it's known in nuclear circles,

arose in the mid-1990s after a lot of leading nuclear powers agreed to stop nuclear testing.

A handful of the world's countries have at least signed this treaty and have agreed to pause testing.

However, it has not gone into binding effect because nine countries that are specified in the treaty

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