World on Edge: Are We Trapped in a Global Nuclear Arms Race?
About this episode
Vipin Narang joins Janice Stein to discuss the complexities and threats of the current global nuclear arms race.
MIT’s Vipin Narang joins Janice Stein to discuss the global nuclear arms race, how the United States “now faces a Category 5 hurricane of nuclear threats,” why China wants to become a nuclear powerhouse, how Russia and Putin plausibly threatened the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine, and why this was the closest we came to nuclear war since the height of the Cuban missile crisis. They then discuss the Iran War, how it makes us “way worse off now,” the bar for the deployment of American nuclear weapons, whether more countries such as Saudi Arabia or South Korea want a nuclear weapon now, if Canada should get a nuke, and if the rationale of mutual assured destruction (MAD) is still in play today.
People in this episode
Host: Janice Stein
Guest: Vipin Narang
Topics covered
- nuclear arms race
- global security
- international relations
- nuclear threats
- mutual assured destruction
- geopolitics
Keywords
- nuclear weapons
- arms race
- geopolitical tensions
- nuclear power
- mutual assured destruction
- Iran War
- Ukraine conflict
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: United States, China, Russia, Iran
Places: Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Canada
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