now on bbc news, it is time for dateline london. hello, and welcome to the programme which brings together some of the bbc s most experienced correspondent clinic with international journalists to write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week, what happens when one of the world s founding nuclear weapons nations goes aerobics? can a strategic deterrent become a tactical weapon for the battlefield? and is war in europe s future, no longerjust its past. today on the panel, john simpson, is in finland. jeffrey conklin has anchored news programmes in the us and canada and reported from
hello, and welcome to the programme which brings together some of the bbc s most experienced correspondent clinic with international journalists to write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week, what happens when one of the world s founding nuclear weapons nations goes aerobics? can a strategic deterrent become a tactical weapon for the battlefield? and is war europe s future, no longerjust its past? today s dateline panel. john simpson, the bbc s world affairs editor, is in finland. jeffrey coffman has anchored news programmes in the us and canada, reported from war zones. in the studio with me is thomas kielinger, who s been explaining the british to german audiences since the 1960s, a time