Latest / Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff
Trump vs Canada. RIP Dolly Parton. Plus: Joe Cirincione. (Replay) 6,000 Warheads, Seven Minutes to Launch. Trump's Finger on the Nuclear Button.
The Cold War is over. The weapons are not. The United States and Russia still hold roughly 6,000 nuclear warheads each — most on hair-trigger alert — and one person, the president, can launch them inside seven minutes with no vice president, no secretary of defense, no Congress, no court. Paul Rieckhoff opens with the news of the moment — Trump's escalating economic war on Canada and the passing of the great Dolly Parton — before diving into a replay conversation with Joe Cirincione, one of the most respected nuclear policy voices in the world, on why this existential threat has been buried…
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