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Military powers within the nato alliance. and i think theyre also prepared to sacrifice economically. it was, in fact, the new german chancellor who this week cancelled the nord stream 2 pipeline to russia. and think the germans have shown that they are prepared to make the necessary economic sacrifices to make putin pay for this aggression. >> global zero, richard, thank you so much. appreciate your expertise. >> thank you, fredricka. across eastern europe, the humanitarian crisis is growing ...

Chernobyl was seized by russian forces, what concerns did you have about that? >> reporter: well, its difficult to say. some experts have said -- of course, there is this so-called sarcophagus in chernobyl, which was used to stop the radiation that was being emitted into the atmosphere. it could be a military target. it could be a kind of very crude weapon of mass destruction. but whats really i think more broadly important is it was only 10 or 15 years ago when people like former secretary of s...

For nonproliferation and arms control at the national security council. and hes currently a special adviser to global zero, and international movement for the elimination of all nuclear weapons, and he joins me now. john, you and other nuclear experts, and watching life, well time responses to this about how freak-out should we be? what do we know about how dangerous is? how should we think about this? >> so, when i just tweeted out when i heard about this story was that we need to take a deep b...

Be worried about nuclear war. he answered unequivocally no. but one cant help but notice that -- its unnerving. john will stop you, at the national security and the obama administration and special adviser to global zero international elimination of all nuclear weapons. his latest commentary pieces on russias nuclear threat. he joins me now. john, i really enjoyed your piece i. i want to start with your reaction to putin announcement about this heightened level of nuclear war. what it means, how...

Well, possibly more flowers, possibly more protests. theyre not going away at the moment. it would be similarly, though, to overlook the fact that the majority of people at the moment still support the president in this fight in ukraine. but there are so many young people now, university students who really saw their future in a developing economy, developing forward-looking country. they dont see that now. and theyre wondering if they can actually get out to have more productive, more free live...

Reduction talks with the former soviet union. hes also a board president at global zero. thanks for being with us yesterday and we enjoyed having you so much that we had to have you back because we needed more time to really delve into all of your expertise. so mr. burt, ukrainian officials say putins move to put his deterrent forces on high alert is just a tactic to put pressure on ukraine ahead of tomorrows scheduled meeting. do you see it that way or is it something else? >> i think in part i...

Four nuclear power plants and 15 reactors. joining us is former director of arms control and nonproliferation and a special adviser of security to then vice president biden and now with global zero. john, tell us how you assessed what most of us watched in horror and terror last night on the tvs. >> i think the first thing i did is try to catch their breath at the shear stupidity that must be on display for somebody to fire at a nuclear power plant. and then very quickly try to gain whatever inf...

Hes there in poland trying to do the same thing and the president meeting with volunteers and also meeting with ukrainian refugees trying to instill some hope for better days. and just hours from now, president biden will deliver whats being called a major address as he wraps up his stop in poland. heres what the president said just a some time ago talking about the response to russias invasion of ukraine. >> im confident that vladimir putin was counting on being able to divide nato, to be abl...

The national security establishment and its corporate allies dominate Congress’s new nuclear weapons commission.