The implications of a tri-polar nuclear world

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The tri-polar nuclear world presents significant implications for the security dilemma.
Multiple nuclear-armed countries with their own interests and agency increase complexity and concern.
Border conflicts, potentially irrational leaders, and technological differences further add to the complexity of the nuclear world.
Matt Corda, from the Nuclear Information Project, emphasizes the current reality of living in a nuclear world.
The discussion focuses on strategies in a tri-polar nuclear world.

For decades, a delicate strategy of deterrence kept Russia and the US from nuclear war. With China upping its nuclear ambitions, things are about to get a lot more complicated.

This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Michael Raphael, and hosted by Noel King.

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