Ever since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons have been considered the ultimate deterrent, the best security against nuclear war. That idea held for 40 years as the U.S and Soviet Union pointed thousands of nukes at each other.
Britain, France, and China joined the club, and in 1970, the Non Proliferation treaty earned pledges from more than 180 other countries promising to stay nuclear free, but the treaty itself is under attack. First it was Israel, then India and Pakistan, now North Korea and Iran are developing their own weapons. Even the United States is testing the limits of non-proliferation, as the Pentagon makes its case for taking nukes out of the bunker, to boost America’s military might. Exploring the politics of proliferation with the Nobel Prize winning Physicist Steven Weinberg.
Guests:
Dr. Steven Weinberg, University of Texas at Austin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979, and fellow at the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.