Air Date: 11-14-2025

The most dangerous part of nuclear weapons has always been the people in charge of them. As we potentially enter a new arms race, some of the worst people in the world are in charge of the vast majority of nuclear weapons.

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KEY POINTS

KP 1: Will Trump Spark a New Nuclear Arms Race - TLDR News Global - Air Date 11-9-25

KP 2: A History of the Doomsday Clock in 4 Minutes - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - Air Date 1-30-24

KP 3: The Lie of Nuclear Deterrence - ICAN's Melissa Parke in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, & Korea for Atomic Bomb 80th Commemorations, Hibakusha Part 1 - Nuclear Hotseat - Air Date 8-13-25

KP 4: Voices of Hiroshima - Scene On Radio - Air Date 8-6-25

KP 5: Marshall Islands: Paradise Interrupted Part 1 - At the Brink - Air Date 12-5-23

KP 6: The Lie of Nuclear Deterrence - ICAN's Melissa Parke in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, & Korea for Atomic Bomb 80th Commemorations, Hibakusha Part 2 - Nuclear Hotseat - Air Date 8-13-25

(00:44:32) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

On the morality of facts we don't question

DEEPER DIVES

(00:56:09) SECTION A: CONSTANT PERIL

A1: What You Should Know About Nuclear Weapons - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - Air Date 11-9-25

A2: "A House of Dynamite” Writer on How Nuclear War Works - Carnegie Endowment - Air Date 10-24-25

A3: "Poorly Informed, Incoherent": Arms Expert on Trump's Order to Test Nuclear Weapons - MSNBC News - Air Date 10-30-25

(01:22:44) SECTION B: THE NEW ARMS RACE, WORSE THAN THE FIRST

B1: "Extraordinarily Destabilizing": Trump Denounced Over Call to Immediately Resume Nuclear Tests - Democracy Now! - Air Date 10-30-25

B2: Are We Living Through a New Nuclear Arms Race? - The Bunker – News Without the Nonsense - Air Date 7-24-25

B3: Lawfare Daily: Serhii Plokhii on the History of the Nuclear Arms Race - The Lawfare Podcast - Air Date 10-15-25

B4: Trump Flirts With Nuclear Annihilation - Pod Save The World - Air Date 11-5-25

B5: Trump's Nuclear Arms Race - 7am - Air Date 11-6-25

(02:05:41) SECTION C: THE DETERRENCE MYTH

C1: To Bomb or Not to Bomb Part 1 - Decouple - Air Date 9-15-25

C2: Modernizing Doomsday: The True Cost of Our Nuclear Arsenal - At the Brink - Air Date 3-30-22

C3: To Bomb or Not to Bomb Part 2 - Decouple - Air Date 9-15-25

C4: Why We Should Fear This New Nuclear Age - Search Party - Air Date 7-23-25

(02:44:12) SECTION D: THE AFTERMATH 80 YEARS LATER

D1: A Nagasaki Survivor And Physician Recounts His Life's Work - Science Friday - Air Date 8-6-25

D2: 80 Years After the Pacific War Japan's Reckoning with History - Japan Today - Air Date 8-8-25

D3: Greg Mitchell on "Oppenheimer" & Why Hollywood Is Still Afraid of the Truth About the Atomic Bomb - Democracy Now! - Air Date 7-24-23

D4: Marshall Islands: Paradise Interrupted Part 2 - At the Brink - Air Date 12-5-23

SHOW IMAGE CREDITS

Description: Image of a president’s hand reaching out to press a big red button.

Credit: “war-nuclear-war” by geralt, Pixabay | Pixabay license

Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

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