Two experts explain the unbalancing of the nuclear world & the drumbeat for war. Hans Kristensen from the Nuclear Information Project about his warning in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Then Greg Mello from the Los Alamos Study Project explains why America seems to need a Russian enemy. This is the election to survive.
Interviews and music by Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock
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A stronger chorus of voices warn that we are once again at the nuclear precipice. All nuclear countries are modernizing their weapons, upsetting the policy of Mutually Assured Destruction that helped us avoid nuclear catastrophe for over 70 years.
The balance of atomic power is shifting, at a moment of global discord. The heads of two nuclear countries appear to be mentally unstable. In this program, you will hear two voices about what we should and should not worry about.