Banning Nuclear Weapons

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 6, 2017

Joshua Keating, staff writer at Slate focusing on international affairs, talks about the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Plus, Alice Slater, the New York director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and who also serves on the Coordinating Committee of World Beyond War, discusses the work of ICAN and the Nuclear Ban Treaty.

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