The national security writer W. J. Hennigan has spent many years ringing the alarm about the world’s new nuclear era — the subject of At The Brink, a new series from New York Times Opinion — and the crisis on the horizon.
For anyone whose interest was piqued by the origin story of nuclear weapons in “Oppenheimer,” Mr. Hennigan, who happens to be a movie buff, recommends three essential films that illuminate our new nuclear era.
An edited transcript of the above audio essay by Mr. Hennigan follows:W.J.
For the past quarter-century, an entire generation has come of age without really having to worry about the bomb.
This has not something that’s been front of mind.
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New York
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Ukraine