'BradCast' 8/14/2019: (Guest: Stephen Schwartz of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Popular Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams has announced a new project called Fair Fight 2020 \\u2013 a broad, much-needed initiative to help Dems prepare well in advance of the 2020 elections to combat the many inevitable anti-voter tactics expected from Republicans. The organization will focus on election protection in about 20 swing-states and several governors' races in the 2020 election, and arose out of Abrams' own experience fighting massive voter suppression in her gubernatorial contest last year against Republican Brian Kemp. Contrast Abrams' effort with that of California billionaire Tom Steyer, who has vowed to spend $100 million of his own money in a likely pointless Democratic presidential run, instead of using that money to help elect Democrats or, for example, help nearly 1 million voters in the key battle-ground state of Florida who are being blocked by Republicans from being allowed to register to vote. Then: the consequences of yet another secretive nuclear accident in Russia -- reportedly an explosion of an experimental nuclear-powered missile on a Russian testing platform that killed at least seven people -- has nuclear weapons analysts studying what might be actually happening at the disaster site.\\xa0 STEPHEN SCHWARTZ, longtime nuclear weapons policy analyst and former Executive Director and Publisher of 'The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists,' explains what is known so far about the accident, and the shifting and conflicting information released by Russia. He also discusses whether Russian President Putin and President Trump are entering into a new nuclear arms race, what it means for US nuclear weapons development and international non-proliferation agreements, whether Trump inadvertently exposed classified information about US nuclear capabilities via Twitter, and more, as the world's latest nuclear tragedy continues to unfold...."