A Strong Deterrence: Containing Putin And Preventing Another Crimea

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With Thomas Donnelly, Jed Babbin, Gordon Chang, Claudia Rosett

THOMAS DONNELLY, Co-Director of the Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, discusses the Administration’s steps to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons, and the effects they have on our national security.

JED BABBIN, Under Secretary of Defense under President George H.W. Bush, argues that Russia will be best confronted by harsher rhetoric and economic sanctions. He also examines the allegations of illegal behavior made by the CIA and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Democratic staff against one another.

Asia-expert GORDON CHANG examines the implications of new leaks that show the NSA spied on Chinese telecommunications company Huawei. He also reports on news that Japan will turn over part of its nuclear stockpile to the United States.

CLAUDIA ROSETT, journalist-in-residence at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, offers her perspective on the recent Russian annexation of Crimea and the lack of credible deterrence from the United States and its NATO partners. She also elaborates on her article about the P5+1 nuclear negotiations with Iran and the unavoidable facts that hinder the prevention of an Iranian nuclear weapons program.