Nuclear

July 19, 2019

The begging of the nuclear age at the end of World War II happened, in large part, due to fears that Germany would detonate an atomic bomb first. See how the United States pushed itself to become the world's first nuclear power.

Global Politics

Khrushchev’s son recalls Sputnik, Gagarin ascent in US-Soviet space race

PRI's The World

July 16, 2019

In October 1957, a beach-ball sized metal globe hurtled through space a couple hundred miles above the United States. That orb was the first artificial Earth satellite — Sputnik. Sergei Khrushchev, former missile engineer and son of Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, remembers the US-Soviet race into space.

Nuclear

With the Iran deal falling apart, Israel faces new worries

PRI's The World

July 08, 2019

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been a fierce critic of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. But now that the deal appears to be collapsing, Israel isn’t exactly celebrating.

Nuclear

Ambassador says UK still looking to salvage Iran nuclear deal

PRI's The World

July 08, 2019

As Iran threatened to restart centrifuges on Monday, the UK's ambassador to the UN says Britain and other European countries are still searching for "a possible route back to compliance."

Global Politics

Moon bets his legacy on meeting with Trump

PRI's The World

June 28, 2019

Donald Trump and Moon Jae-in meet Sunday in a summit that could have huge consequences for President Moon.

Nuclear

Things That Go Boom: Are sanctions on Iran spurring economic resilience?

PRI's The World

June 18, 2019

Sanctions on Iran have squeezed the economy since the 1970s, and since US President Donald Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal, they have been ratcheting up. Some Iranians are ready to cut and run but others are waiting out the economic storm.

Politics

Things That Go Boom: Is America's foreign policy for sale?

PRI's The World

June 11, 2019

Think tanks with nonprofit status aren't required to say much of anything when it comes to the source of their funding — whether it be billionaires or foreign governments. That can become a problem when such organizations significantly influence foreign policy — such as the Iran nuclear deal — without disclosing to whom they are financially beholden.

Conflict & Justice

Ayatollah Khamenei says nuclear weapons are 'forbidden under Islamic law'

PRI's The World

May 30, 2019

During tensions with the United States over Iran's nuclear ambitions, Ayatollah Khamenei has come out and declared a fatwa over the use of nuclear weapons. But what does this really mean for Iran and the recent nuclear deal? The World's host Marco Werman speaks with Omid Safi, a professor of Iranian studies at Duke University and the director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center, to find out.

Nuclear

Things That Go Boom: In nuclear negotiations, diplomacy can be a slog

PRI's The World

May 27, 2019

Diplomacy is often awkward, stymied by translators, late nights and unsecured yurt communication (yes, that really happened). But diplomacy can also stop a war, as years of secret and not-so-secret negotiations between the US and Iran proved when the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was reached in 2015.

Foreign policy

Sen. Chris Murphy says Trump's Iran plan is 'blind escalation with no endgame'

PRI's The World

May 23, 2019

US tensions with Iran are ramping up with no clear plan in sight. Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says that while Iran is acting belligerently, the US response is not helping.

Nuclear

How the race for nuclear power began

Khrushchev’s son recalls Sputnik, Gagarin ascent in US-Soviet space race

With the Iran deal falling apart, Israel faces new worries

Ambassador says UK still looking to salvage Iran nuclear deal

Moon bets his legacy on meeting with Trump

Things That Go Boom: Are sanctions on Iran spurring economic resilience?

Things That Go Boom: Is America's foreign policy for sale?

Ayatollah Khamenei says nuclear weapons are 'forbidden under Islamic law'

Things That Go Boom: In nuclear negotiations, diplomacy can be a slog

Sen. Chris Murphy says Trump's Iran plan is 'blind escalation with no endgame'

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