Gist: Why We’ve Never Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

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English - August 18, 2016 23:32 - 28 minutes - ★★★★ - 1K ratings
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Are the nation’s most dangerous warheads secure if a rag-tag troika of peaceniks can break through the storage facility’s back door? On The Gist, Washington Post reporterDan Zak considers the good and not-so-good arguments for nuclear weapons. His book is Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age.
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Are the nation’s most dangerous warheads secure if a rag-tag troika of peaceniks can break through the storage facility’s back door? On The Gist, Washington Post reporter Dan Zak considers the good and not-so-good arguments for nuclear weapons. His book is Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age.

For the Spiel, Jill Stein’s unforgivable comments on debt forgiveness.

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