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all about the bomb. Nuclear weapons are back in a big way and everything about the Cold War suddenly feels very fresh.

Nukes are strange.

They've only been used twice and the language and knowledge around them can often feel arcane, almost religious.

There's all these little rituals in the nuclear space.

Today we're going to talk about one of those rituals,

the nuclear posture review.

Once in every presidential administration, the nuclear curtain is withdrawn and we get a glimpse at what the Pentagon and critically the president is thinking

But what is the nuclear posture review who writes it and what does it have to do with the price of gas

in the apocalyptic hellscape?

Well, here, with some answers to some of the questions, is Stephen Young. Young is the senior Washington representative

for the Union of Concerned Scientists. He is also the former deputy director of the

Coalition to reduce nuclear dangers and he consulted on this most recent nuclear posture review.

Sir, thank you so much for coming on to the show and walking us through some of this.

I'm happy to be here.

And so before we get to the NPR, which always messes me up when I say it aloud, because we're talking about the review and not the radio station.

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