Who gets to have nuclear weapons and why? | Start Here
Jul 30, 2025 #AJStartHere #NuclearWeapons #NPT
Israel and the US – both nuclear-armed states – recently attacked Iran. They said it was to
Jul 30, 2025 #AJStartHere #NuclearWeapons #NPT
Israel and the US – both nuclear-armed states – recently attacked Iran. They said it was to prevent Iran getting a nuclear weapon, something Iran denies it’s trying to do.
What determines which countries can, and can’t, have nuclear weapons? And are we seeing a new nuclear race?
#AJStartHere with Sandra Gathmann explains
Chapters:
01:09 - How the Cuban Missile Crisis led to a new nuclear order.
01:58 - The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the nine nuclear-armed states.
04:49 - The key factors that affect a country’s calculation on nukes.
05:47 - Security: do nuclear weapons make a country more, or less, safe?
07:22 - The US nuclear umbrella - can it still be trusted?
08:10 - Do nuclear weapons enhance a country’s status?
09:40 - What’s going on with Iran?
14:32 - Who gets to police the global nuclear order?
14:52 - How the nine nuclear-armed states are increasing their spending on nukes.
This episode features:
Gary Samore | Director, Crown Centre for Middle East Studies & Professor, Brandeis University
Hans M. Kristensen | Director, Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists
Sharon Squassoni | Research Professor, George Washington University
Hassan Elbahtimy | Senior Lecturer, Dept of War Studies, King’s College London
Tariq Rauf | Former IAEA official
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