Nearly 80 years after the world’s first atom bomb was released over Hiroshima, can the vision of a nuclear weapon-free world be realized? In Belarus, President Alexander Lukashenko has said there can be “nuclear weapons for everyone”. Russian tactical warheads are on the move into Belarusian territory. It’s the Kremlin’s first deployment of such bombs outside Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
00:00 Introduction
00:37 Belarus: ‘Nuclear weapons for everyone’
00:57 U.S.: ‘Irresponsible, provocation’
01:20 How serious is Russia-Belarus move?
03:18 U.S. has nukes in Europe
04:29 Russia using nuclear threats
06:18 Real threat is Putin’s mental state
06:28 Chernobyl fallout over Russia
07:13 Ukraine’s nuclear arsenal
07:26 Budapest Memorandum
09:30 Let down by Brits, Americans
09:48 China also made commitment
10:50 Hiroshima atom bomb 1945
12:00 Survivor recalls day of bombing
12:41 Map: Global nuclear inventories
14:21 G7’s ‘Hiroshima Vision’
14:39 ICAN: G7 not committed
17:03 Lai: China is real threat
19:31 U.S. nuclear umbrella
24:15 Taiwan under U.S. umbrella?
24:39 ‘No First Use’ policy
27:36 U.S. vs China comparison
30:03 Anthony Cordesman interview
44:05 Would Taiwan war turn nuclear?
Our guests are:
Lai I-chung
-CEO of Taiwan thinktank the Prospect Foundation
Tony Hu
-Former U.S. Department of Defense Senior Director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia
Guermantes Lailari
– Retired U.S. Air Force Foreign Area Officer specializing in missile defense
And from Washington D.C.
Anthony H. Cordesman
-Emeritus Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
-A national security analyst on global conflicts including Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and Syria
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