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Nick Schifrin
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Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
Washington
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Security business and politics
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By Nick Schifrin Verified| PBS NewsHour Verified Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Audio Taiwan is strengthening its military and society to fend off aggression from mainland China. In recent years, the people in Taiwan have increasingly identified themselves as Taiwanese, not Chinese, in everything from food to sports. Nick Schifrin reports for our series Taiwan: Risk and Resistance.
Video: 80 Years After Hiroshima, Should U.S. President Have Authority to Launch Nuclear Attack? - Global Research
By Nick Schifrin Verified, William Perry, Michel Chossudovsky| Global Research Verified [This video was published by PBS in August 2020.]On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first atomic weapon on Hiroshima, Japan. Eighty years later, the NewsHour revisits how the president became the sole authority on when nuclear weapons are used. Nick Schifrin reports and talks to former Secretary of Defense William Perry, co-author of “The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump.”. . *Click the share button below to email/forward this article.
By Nick Schifrin Verified| PBS NewsHour Verified Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Audio Taiwan is strengthening its military and society to fend off aggression from mainland China. In recent years, the people in Taiwan have increasingly identified themselves as Taiwanese, not Chinese, in everything from food to sports. Nick Schifrin reports for our series Taiwan: Risk and Resistance.
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PBS NewsHour
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