Sarah Scoles, author of Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Sarah discuss why nuclear weapons have regained their Cold War relevance, the modern nuclear weapons landscape, efforts to modernize America's vintage nuclear stockpile, and prospects for the nuclear status-quo, proliferation, and abolishment.

0:00 - Introduction
0:47 - Sarah’s book
3:14 - Millennial relationship with nuclear weapons
6:08 - Nuclear modernization
8:28 - Reducing nuclear stockpile
10:22 - Science vs. policy
13:22 - Hiroshima & Nagasaki
19:06 - Future of nuclear weapons
22:25 - How should we view nukes?
25:06 - Nuclear non-proliferation
27:38 - Nuclear testing
31:22 - Nuclear innovation
33:24 - AI