We're Going to Have a Nuclear Arms Race

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Blake Reed: Arms control treaties have really just ground to a halt. We are not seeing any advance there. In fact they might be going backwards which is pretty scary. The US has spent a lot to upgrade its nuclear arsenal. It wants to maintain that power. That means we're headed towards a world where we could have dozen, two dozen countries with nuclear weapons and it becomes so much more difficult to control it.

Vladimir Putin keeps threatening to use smaller nuclear weapons to win his war. Author J. Peter Scoblic says “there’s no such thing as small nukes.”

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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