# Jane Perlez

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On the Trail of Xi Jinping, a Podcast by Jane Perlez

U.S./China relations have seen huge shifts over the past decade. Jane Perlez, former Beijing Bureau Chief for The New York Times, witnessed much of it during her seven years reporting from China. On the Trail of Xi Jinping follows the rise of China’s current leader, and how the West got him so wro…

Introducing Face-Off: Nuclear Anarchy?

The nuclear age began in secrecy and scientific ambition. The story is familiar, but its implications have never left us. Face-Off: Nuclear Anarchy is an 8-part series tracing the arc of nuclear danger. A bomb created in a moment of wartime urgency became the foundation of a global order defined by…

The New Nuclear Age

For the first time in half a century, the world is drifting into a nuclear era with fewer constraints and more danger. The old arms control architecture is gone. The United States is modernizing its arsenal, Russia is making explicit nuclear threats, and China is expanding rapidly and in secret. Ea…

The Race to Build the Bomb

The nuclear age began in fear, secrecy, and scientific ambition. The bomb created in a moment of wartime urgency became the foundation of a new global order defined by terror and deterrence. The story is familiar, but its implications have never left us. In episode two of the series, Jane Perlez in…

Thirteen Days on the Brink

Jane Perlez reports on the thirteen most dangerous days in human history, when the world came closer to nuclear annihilation than ever before or since: the Cuban Missile Crisis. In October 1962, a Soviet submarine trapped under the Atlantic with a nuclear-tipped torpedo faced orders so ambiguous th…

The Age of Arms Control

There was a time when the nuclear powers did more than posture. During the era of arms control, the White House, Kremlin, and State Department built frameworks to slow the arms race and reduce the chance of catastrophe. The process was imperfect and often fragile. In this episode, Jane Perlez inter…

Ukraine’s Lost Deterrent

It is one of the great broken promises of the post-Cold War era. When the Soviet Union collapsed, Ukraine found itself in possession of the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal. In 1994, Ukraine gave up those weapons in exchange for assurances that its sovereignty would be protected. Jane Perlez w…

Nuclear anarchy: who’s stopping the next arms race?

In February this year, the New START treaty governing nuclear weapon stockpiles in USA and Russia expired. Is there anything to replace it? Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jane Perlez, host of the podcast Face Off: Nuclear Anarchy, joins Hamish Macdonald and Waleed Aly to explain why experts are …

The Outliers

Iran and North Korea are two of the clearest tests of the global nonproliferation order. North Korea has crossed the threshold entirely as an openly nuclear-armed state. Iran sits at the threshold, advancing its nuclear capabilities while denying its attempts to seek the bomb amid the current U.S.-…

Tinker, Tailor, Chipmaker, Spy

NVIDIA’s CEO is ensnared in a Chinese spy scandal that Trump and US intelligence knew about, Pete Hegseth is a war criminal and at least one Republican in Congress agrees, and CENTCOM enters the content mines. Tommy and Ben break down the scandal engulfing NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang—how his affair wit…