Science writer Sarah Scoles joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how psychologists want to study what factors into that high-stakes thinking.
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Scared of nukes? You should be
History professor Daniel Immerwahr discusses why a population that doesn’t remember the horrors of nuclear war bodes ill for the future of warfare, and why modern brinkmanship is now an even more dangerous game.
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Learning To Wage Peace
Paul Chappell joins us to talk about nonviolent tools available to solve the conflict in the world.
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The U.S. Government’s Secret Doomsday Plan
Garret M. Graff joins us to talk about the inner-workings of the plan that would ensure continuity in the event of a nuclear attack – and how it’s evolved in the last six decades.
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The President’s Nuclear Power
This hour, we’ll talk about the power a president has to deploy our nuclear arsenal – and about how those decisions are made – with Stanford political science professor Scott Sagan, an expert on weapons of mass destruction.
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