In 1983, a movie was released about nuclear war that shocked 100 million Americans. This episode dives into the movie and how it impacted President Reagan to change his views on nuclear weapons policy. Washington Post Reporter Dan Zak is also interviewed about his book “Almighty,” which profiles nuclear activists and covers the history of U.S. nuclear weapons.
Analysis
Marlene Laruelle: Is Russia Really “Fascist”? A Comment on Timothy Snyder
The fact that Timothy Snyder is an influential public intellectual and respected historian is no reason for scholars not to challenge his facile and polemical analysis of the contemporary Russian state
Ted Galen Carpenter: Washington Quietly Increases Lethal Weapons to Ukraine
Critics who say Trump is being “soft on Russia” should be paying attention to this.
Paul Grenier: Russia-gate as Symptom: The Crisis of American Community
Are the divisions that fragment the United States primarily driven by some deep flaw in its political life, or was the United States doing just fine, thank you very much—until Russia came along during the 2016 presidential race and started sowing division and dissension? Framed that way, the question answers itself.
Robert Legvold and Valery Garbuzov: A discussion on US-Russian relations
Washington is boiling with passions, and the new sanctions are only the initial step of the US response to the Russian foreign policy, which has become much more active recently. Contradictions tear America apart and it suffers from a “constitutional crisis”. Can Russia and the US return to the path of constructive cooperation in the present conditions?
PODCAST: Stephen F. Cohen Talks with AM 970’s Frank Morano
NYU and Princeton University Professor Emeritus Stephen Cohen talks with NYC radio host Frank Morano on the latest controversies involving the Trump administration, the bipartisan foreign policy consensus and US-Russia relations.
‘Meeting Gorbachev’ Review: Werner Herzog Finds a True Hero in Documentary
Herzog’s is a nostalgic, grateful, and surprisingly tender lament for a breed of politician that wanted to bring people together — that saw world peace as an extension of their patriotic duty, and not anathema to it.
WSJ Op-ed: Media Guilt by Russian Association
Foreign-policy experts have been accused of repeating Kremlin propaganda merely for suggesting that the U.S. should consider Russia’s nuclear arsenal in formulating policy toward Moscow.
Paul Robinson: NOVICHOK SUSPECTS
The latest news puts the Russian government in an awkward position and places a serious burden of responsibility on it to take action against the alleged assassins.
Aaron Mate: What Does The Intercept’s NSA Leak Say About Russian Vote Hacking?
With Reality Winner sentenced to five years behind bars, The Intercept’s Jim Risen joins Aaron Maté to discuss the NSA leaker’s harsh sentence and what the document she revealed actually says.
Paul Robinson: Double Standards and the Rules-based Order
When seeking a solution for the current tensions between Russia and the West, we need first of all to determine what the root problem is.
Center for Citizen Initiatives: Observations of Moscow
The following letter was written by Sylvia Demarest, a trial lawyer from Dallas, Texas. Sylvia is one of the travelers on CCI’s current AMMR (Americans Meet Mainstream Russians) delegation.
James Goldgeier: Bill and Boris: A Window Into a Most Important Post-Cold War Relationship
Against the backdrop of an enormous power differential between their two countries, Clinton and Yeltsin established a close personal rapport. They used those positive feelings to interact effectively even when they were being frank in their disagreements, the most serious of which were over NATO enlargement — a major sore spot for Yeltsin — and the Kosovo War, the greatest test of the two leaders’ personal relationship.
Doug Bandow: Settle Crimea with a Referendum
But make sure it is free and fair.
Nadezhda Azhgikhina: Svetlana Alexievich: ‘Freedom Is Long and Hard Work’
The Nobel Prize laureate in literature believes a new generation in the countries of the former USSR will make the dreams of 1991 a reality.
Happy Labor Day Weekend from ACEWA
We will return Tuesday, September 4.
Syria talks in Lausanne end without breakthrough (Reuters)
Syria talks convened by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in the Swiss city of Lausanne on Saturday evening failed to agree on a common strategy with Russia to end the conflict in Syria, now in its sixth year.
Gordon Hahn: Through the Looking Glass Falsely: A World Without Facts
As the West has turned more and more to Soviet/Russian methods of the ‘big lie’ in order to advance democracy and its interests, the Russia-West propaganda war had produced a post-fact world in which disinformation comes to be believed by its purveyors.
Stephen F. Cohen PODCAST: ‘Vital’ US Moles in the Kremlin Go Missing!
According to New York Times intel leakers, “informants close to” Putin have “gone silent.” What can it all mean?
An Open Letter To The President (Russia-America Goodwill Association)
By Vladislav Krasnov on behalf of Russia & America Goodwill Association
Dear Mr. President:
As your presidential duties will soon expire, I want you make sure your Nobel Peace Prize is deserved: Please instruct your officials to return to the path of negotiations with Russia, be it the Syrian crisis, the lapse of the plutonium nuclear arms control deal or Ukraine….