Terrified by Donald Trump’s latest nuclear tweet? Worried that Kim Jong Un might fall asleep on his little button and blow us all up? This podcast will probably terrify you even more. Kal Raustiala, director of the U.C.L.A. Burkle Center for International Relations and an expert on foreign affairs and international law, joins me this week to explain how close we are to global annihilation, why artificial intelligence could prove to be more dangerous than a global thermonuclear war, and why California should just call it quits and secede from the Union.

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