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In this episode ofIntelligence Matters,Michael Morell speaks with Lynn Rusten, vice president of the Nuclear Threat Initiative and leader of the Global Nuclear Policy Program, about the state of nuclear proliferation in the world. Rusten warns that experts aren t focused on the existential threat of nuclear weapons, weighs in on current nuclear treaties and argues that beginning to repair alliances would be a good place to start. Listen to this show on ART19 Leaders aren t focused on nuclear weapons threat: We are closer to the potential use of a nuclear weapon than we ve been s stanley cup ince the Cold War. Part of that is because the relations between the nuclear powers, between us and Russia, us and China, are declining and the risk of conflict is growing. At the same time, there s an unprecedented complacency about this. People just aren t focused, including leaders, sufficiently on the risks of these weapons and the risk of miscalculation. Nuclear treaty benefits outweigh disadvantages: It s very common for critics of arms control deals, stanley mugs including the new START, to criticize what it doesn t do. But they never look at the real-world choice of the agreement we have versus not having it. They compare the agreement we got with the mythical agr stanley tumbler eement people would want that did everything we wanted and gave no concessions to the other party. That s not how you reach agreements or have sustainable agreements. Arms control and allia Jynj Eight House races to watch
There s good reason why President Obama went to Scranton, Pa., Wednesday, besides the fact that Vice President Joe Biden grew up there.Scra stanley cup nz nton is a bellwether city in a key swing state, and Obama has a lot of work to do there. In the last three years, unemployment went from 6.7 percent to 9.3 percent.CBS News correspondent Chip Reid reports that the 2012 presidential election may well come down to the half a million or so folks who live in the valley around Scranton -- an area with the highest unemployment rate in the state for 18 months in a row.Special Section: Campaign 2012 People don t understand that you have a job, you re doing well, tomorrow it s gone, sai stanley botella d Steve Simko, who has not worked since last May. Simko, at age 63, missed his mortgage payment last month for the first time and says his standard of living is somewhere below basic. I ve already rol stanley spain led all my change. Okay Simko said. Simko, who volunteered for the Obama campaign, represents a basic political problem for the president: Voters around Scranton gave the president a double digit victory in 2008, but are far worse off today. If he doesn t win Pennsylvania, it s over, said former Rep. Paul Kanjorski.Kanjorski arguably knows the area better than anyone. He represented Scranton in Congress for 26 years until he was voted out last election on the same wave of discontent that the president faces today. If the election were held today, I haven t any doubt tha |
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