A Brief History of US-Russia Nuclear Agreements

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 23, 2016

This week, President-elect Donald Trump clarified his nuclear position to Mika Brzezinski saying, "Let it be an arms race. We will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all."

Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist, joins to discuss the history of US-Russia nuclear agreements and what the future of nuclear warfare might look like under the Trump presidency.

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