Episode 27: TREATIES - What are they good for?
Fault Lines
English - June 05, 2020 01:26 - 38 minutes - 17.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsGovernment News Politics national security foreign policy congress Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The President recently announced his intention to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty and is considering restarting nuclear testing. Dana, Jamil, Jodi, and Les discuss the state of arms control and how the US should approach international agreements. Is it better for the United States to model behavior by staying in bad treaties or leave them? Can the US prioritize non-proliferation and modernization of the nuclear triad? How should we deal with our allies who are stuck in the middle? All these questions and more answered in this week’s Fault Lines.
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