Episode 144: Ukraine, Negotiation, Not Escalation in the Nuclear Shadow

In this episode we check in with a former US negotiator in Crimea, as well as a peace activist in Finland opposed to her country joining NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Marcy Winograd, coordinator of CODEPINK Congress, interviews John Quigley, an international law professor invited by the State Department in the 1990s to negotiate the future of Crimea. On the second half of the show, Marcy talks to Kati Juva, board member of Finland's chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility on both her opposition and resignation to Finland joining NATO, an organization Juva believes might be ripe for an insurgent antinuclear block of countries in support of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.