Top of the Hour: Securing Nukes, Morning Headlines
Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of the new report, "Securing the Bomb 2010," Matthew Bunn, joins us to talk about how the U.S. is poised to deal with nuclear threats; this morning's...
View ArticleObama Pushes Leaders to Secure Nuclear Materials in Four Years
President Obama's nuclear summit in Washington has brought together leaders of 47 nations in pursuit of an elusive goal: to lock down unsecured nuclear material within the next four years and prevent...
View ArticleIran's Nuke Swap with Turkey & Brazil: Conciliatory or Cunning?
The ongoing back-and-forth between the U.S. and Iran over the latter's nuclear ambitions is often compared to a chess game. But there's a notable difference: a chessboard only has two sides....
View ArticleNorth, South Korea Sever Ties: War Gamers Watch For Signs
North and South Korea continued to trade diplomatic blows on Tuesday, with South Korea re-designating the North their "principal enemy," a term that Seoul used to use for Pyonyang, but then retired in...
View ArticleThe Impact of Hiroshima's Bombing, 65 Years Later
Sixty five years ago today, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. In a public statement justifying the use of the bomb that August, 1945, President Harry Truman said, "The world...
View ArticleA Nuclear Iran May Be Further Away than Previously Thought
It's a simple question with an infinitely complicated answer: what happens if Iran is able to build a nuclear weapon?Russia is expected to deliver low-enriched uranium to Tehran to bring the Bushehr...
View ArticleThe Nuclear Option: Surviving an Atomic Bomb Attack in a Big City
We talked yesterday with David Sanger, who writes for our partner The New York Times, about the very disturbing notion that North Korea has already become a nuclear power, and the possibility that...
View ArticleKrulwich Wonders: Five Men Agree To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear...
They weren't crazy. They weren't being punished. All but one volunteered to do this (which makes it all the more astonishing.)On July 19, 1957, five Air Force officers and one photographer stood...
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