Maintaining American Nuclear Dominance

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With Michael O’Hanlon

MICHAEL O’HANLON, Senior Fellow, Director of Research, and Co-Director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution:

PART ONE:

• Grading the U.S. nuclear deterrent force in terms of maintenance, moral, reliability, and safety
• Various geopolitical issues that prevent a nuclear weapon-free world
• Urgent security concerns amid an ill-maintained American nuclear arsenal

PART TWO:

• Dangerous unknowns surrounding Iran’s nuclear weapon capabilities
• Will an Iran nuclear deal reset the norm on the international sanctions regime?
• Secret underground nuclear facilities that show continued Iranian deceitfulness towards the IAEA and U.S. intelligence

PART THREE:

• Putin’s push against the bounds of the Ukrainian ceasefire to undermine NATO
• Possible U.S. military options in the Baltic states to deter Russian aggression

PART FOUR:

• The role of the “Asia Pivot” in current and future U.S.-China relations
• Rick Fisher’s three phases of China’s projection of military power
• The need for a national consensus on immigration policy in lieu of presidential executive action