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Would a Taiwan Contingency Turn Into Nuclear War?

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Nearly 80 years after the first atomic bomb attack destroyed Hiroshima, is there yet hope for a world free of nuclear arms? In Belarus, President Alexander Lukashenko has said there can be “nuclear weapons for everyone” as Russia moves tactical warheads into his country. It’s the Kremlin's first deployment of such weapons outside Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Our guests are: Lai I-chung -CEO of Taiwan thinktank the Prospect Foundation Tony Hu -Former U.S. Department of Defense senior director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia Guermantes Lailari - Retired U.S. Air Force foreign area officer specializing in missile defense And from Washington D.C. Anthony H. Cordesman -Emeritus Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies -National security analyst on global conflicts including Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and Syria