Host Avery Kolers talks to Prof. Rodger Payne, a political scientist at the University of Louisville, about the nuclear standoff between the US and North Korea, about nuclear deterrence, and about how to ban the bomb. If it is immoral to strike first with nuclear weapons, isn't it immoral to strike back too? And so isn't it wrong even to threaten to do so? What do you do with a weapon that has no legitimate use? On the other hand, have nukes made us less likely to fight?
Cover photo by Kuenzang Gyelmo. From http://kuenzanggyelmo.blogspot.com/2013/11/peace-symbol.html