About this episode

Dr. Daniel Salisbury discusses the implications of the New START Treaty expiration and the evolving nuclear risks related to Iran and China.

From the expiration of the New START Treaty to the war with Iran, headlines about nuclear risks are consistently in the news at the moment. How significant is the expiration of the New START Treaty? How have nuclear risks changed since the war with Iran began? What are the major nuclear threats facing the world at the moment? Dr Daniel Salisbury joined the USSC Briefing Room to discuss these issues. Daniel is Senior Fellow for Nuclear Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the author of Secrecy, Public Relations and the British Nuclear Debate: How the UK Government Learned to Talk about the Bomb, 1970-1983 . Subscribe to the USSC Briefing Room on Apple Podcasts , Spotify and YouTube . Produced by: Elliott Brennan Music by Dan Phillipson, licensed through PremiumBeat

People in this episode

Host: United States Studies Centre

Guest: Dr Daniel Salisbury

Topics covered

• nuclear risk
• New START Treaty
• Iran
• China
• arms control
• non-proliferation
• disarmament

Keywords

• nuclear risk
• New START Treaty
• Iran
• China
• arms control
• disarmament
• nuclear threats

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: International Institute for Strategic Studies

Books & works: Secrecy, Public Relations and the British Nuclear Debate: How the UK Government Learned to Talk about the Bomb, 1970-1983

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