Podcasts by At the Brink
A podcast about the dangers we face from nuclear weapons, and the stories of those who are fighting to protect us.
Further podcasts by William J. Perry Project
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Introducing Season 2 from 2023-07-18T11:00
With the Trinity Test, J. Robert Oppenheimer ushered in the atomic age, and a decade-long campaign of U.S. atmospheric nuclear testing. In Season 2 of AT THE BRINK, discover the hidden history and ...
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The Biscuit and the Football: The True Cost of Our Nuclear Arsenal from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Is there anything more quintessentially American that naming the briefcase that the President uses to authorize a nuclear attack, “the football”? The authority to single-handedly decide the fate of...
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Hibakusha: Survivors of the Bomb from 2020-10-27T09:00
In this episode, we hear the wrenching stories of two survivors of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima. These two women, known as “Hibakusha” or “explosion affected persons”, both suffered injury a...
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Fire and Fury in the Hermit Kingdom: North Korea’s Nuclear Program from 2020-09-10T09:00
The history of North Korea’s nuclear ambitions has see-sawed between crisis and hope. Bill Perry tells how close we came to war in 1994, and he and Philip Yun tell their story of negotiating direct...
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The Iran Deal: Blocking a Persian Bomb from 2020-08-26T09:00
Was the Iran nuclear deal really “the worst deal ever negotiated”, as Donald Trump claimed? We’ll hear from Ambassador Wendy Sherman, the lead U.S. negotiator, former Obama advisor Ben Rhodes, Iran...
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Modernizing Doomsday: The True Cost of Our Nuclear Arsenal from 2020-07-29T09:00
In January 2020, the Doomsday Clock was set at 100 seconds to midnight, telling us that the world is the closest to catastrophe it has ever been during the nuclear age. A big reason is that both th...
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Loose Nukes: A Nuclear Success Story from 2020-07-15T09:00
Most Americans cheered when the Soviet Union broke apart into 15 independent countries in 1991, but a few had a sobering concern: the break-up created three new nuclear states overnight: Ukraine, B...
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The Biscuit and the Football: Presidential Nuclear Authority from 2020-07-02T08:00
Is there anything more quintessentially American that naming the briefcase that the President uses to authorize a nuclear attack, “the football”? The authority to single-handedly decide the fate of...
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Seek Immediate Shelter: Nuclear False Alarms from 2020-07-01T08:00
There is an urgent, specific danger facing our world today: nuclear weapons. In our first episode, producer and filmmaker Cynthia Lazaroff recounts the 40 minutes of terror she experienced during H...
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Seek Immediate Shelter: Nuclear False Alarms from 2020-07-01T08:00
There is an urgent, specific danger facing our world today: nuclear weapons. In our first episode, producer and filmmaker Cynthia Lazaroff recounts the 40 minutes of terror she experienced during H...
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Seek Immediate Shelter: Nuclear False Alarms from 2020-07-01T08:00
There is an urgent, specific danger facing our world today: nuclear weapons. In our first episode, producer and filmmaker Cynthia Lazaroff recounts the 40 minutes of terror she experienced during H...
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