“The nuclear normative order was already unravelling before the Ukraine war.” NinaTannenwald explains why the erosion of the nuclear taboo matters, on our “Checks and Balance” podcast
. How should we think about the nuclear threat? And what role should America play in policing it?
Dr Nina Tannenwald, author of “The Nuclear Taboo”, explains how the norms that guaranteed the long nuclear peace have been. We explore the lost era of US-Soviet collaboration to contain the threat from “loose nukes”. And Dr Siegfried Hecker, who led those efforts as director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, shares lessons from sixty years working to avert nuclear catastrophe. John Prideaux hosts with Shashank Joshi and Jon Fasman.
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