Mary Louise Kelly

Can Europe still rely on the US nuclear umbrella?

What about where does France fit in?

They're currently...

Sounds like you hope for forever that is the only country on the European continent with nuclear weapons.

So, bottom line, to bring us back to where we started, are we looking at a future where school kids are going to be hiding under their desks again for nuclear drills?

And if not literally, I guess I mean...

Are we going to be raising children in a generation that feels the peril, that feels the world is getting less safe because of nuclear weapons than more?

And when you say we may be in a moment of a new nuclear arms race,

Why?

Is that dictated by the fact that countries feel increasingly insecure and like the world is shifting around them?

I would say it is not back burner, but it's not front burner here either.

It's definitely on the agenda.

President Zelensky is coming.

He'll be here.

His foreign minister is coming.

They're briefing the press.

It's not lost on anyone here.

We are four years, as of this month, four years into all-out war.

It is not at all clear how the war in Ukraine will end.

It is not at all clear that Russia wants to end it.