War is. Now at 100 seconds to midnight. Its a close its ever been. It was there in 2020. And the bulletin of atomic scientists doesnt change the clock until january every year. It has not had a chance to do so. But if the current continues to ratchet, as it is now doing in ukraine, i think that it may indeed move a little bit closer. And of course, with every advance of the Ukrainian Army into those four territories that the have annexed claim to have annexed in eastern ukraine, the rhetoric from Vladimir Putin becomes strident and alarming. And even last night, President Biden said that we are now to armageddon since we are now closer to armageddon than any time since cuban missile crisis, 60 years ago. And we are now approaching that 60th anniversary of the cuban crisis. If that wasnt enough, we also have the episodes in northeast asia where the north koreans Ballistic Missiles over japan with the United States and south koreans conducting military exercises. Its a dangerous dangerou
Now Nuclear Weapons are back in the news as we are all recognized. The doomsday clock. The device that the bulletin of the atomic scientists has kept since the early days of the cold war is. Now at 100 seconds to midnight. Its a close its ever been. It was there in 2020. And the bulletin of atomic scientists doesnt change the clock until january every year. It has not had a chance to do so. But if the current continues to ratchet, as it is now doing in ukraine, i think that it may indeed move a little bit closer. And of course, with every advance of the Ukrainian Army into those four territories that the have annexed claim to have annexed in eastern ukraine, the rhetoric from Vladimir Putin becomes strident and alarming. And even last night, President Biden said that we are now to armageddon since we are now closer to armageddon than any time since cuban missile crisis, 60 years ago. And we are now approaching that 60th anniversary of the cuban crisis. If that wasnt enough, we also hav
The news as we are all recognized. The doomsday clock. The device that the bulletin of the atomic scientists has kept since the early days of the cold war is. Now at 100 seconds to midnight. Its a close its ever been. It was there in 2020. And the bulletin of atomic scientists doesnt change the clock until january every year. It has not had a chance to do so. But if the current continues to ratchet, as it is now doing in ukraine, i think that it may indeed move a little bit closer. And of course, with every advance of the Ukrainian Army into those four territories that the have annexed claim to have annexed in eastern ukraine, the rhetoric from Vladimir Putin becomes strident and alarming. And even last night, President Biden said that we are now to armageddon since we are now closer to armageddon than any time since cuban missile crisis, 60 years ago. And we are now approaching that 60th anniversary of the cuban crisis. If that wasnt enough, we also have the episodes in northeast asia
good morning, everyone. i m marc selverstone, associate professor in presidential studies and chair of the presidential program at the university of virginia s miller center. and i d like to welcome you to this discussion of nuclear brinkmanship. what we learned from the presidency. richard nixon. now nuclear weapons are back in the news as we are all recognized. the doomsday clock. the device that the bulletin of the atomic scientists has kept since the early days of the cold war is. now at 100 seconds to midnight. it s a close it s ever been. it was there in 2020. and the bulletin of atomic scientists doesn t change the clock until january every year. it has not had a chance to do so. but if the current continues to ratchet, as it is now doing in ukraine, i think that it may indeed move a little bit closer. and of course, with every advance of the ukrainian army into those four territories that the have annexed claim to have annexed in eastern ukraine, the rhetoric from vla
part due to the great archival work of many historians is that one of the key motivations for soviets behind the npt, the nonproliferation treaty was to constrain west germany from acquiring nuclear. so i think it s right to say that his administration and i would not call the nixon administration as having an unvarnished record on arms control. they re quite skeptical of it. but at same time, i think also that at times it could be in the us interest to prevent certain countries from acquiring nuclear weapons or to put a cap on the soviet nuclear arsenal. so for nixon, his interest in arms control, however significant it was, was part of a larger grand strategy as well. it wasn t just arms control for sake of arms control, it was arms control for american. the of u.s. national interests, the world. and ken, i d like to turn to you, because i know that as part of your work on nixon, vietnam, we have this example of nixon engaging in some of this mixed signaling, forwarding emp