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The Strategika Podcast: Josef Joffe on Why Nations go Nuclear
On this episode of the Strategika podcast from the Hoover Institution, I talk with Josef Joffe, publisher and editor of Die Zeit and a member of the Hoover Institution’s Military History Working Group, about the history of nuclear proliferation. Why have some countries chosen to go nuclear while others with a ready capability have forsworn it? What does the future of nuclear arms look like? And, nearly 70 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, can we be confident that another seven decades will pass without a nuclear exchange? Listen in below:
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Die Ziet? Surely it’s Die Zeit.
Remember when Pakistan announced it was a nuclear power? It was hailed everywhere – CELEBRATED – as the Islamic (!) bomb. The answer to your question is no, we won’t see another 70 years go by before a weapon is used again.