More than a month into Putin’s invasion, Ukrainian resistance has proved mightier than the Russian leader seems to have anticipated. On this week’s On the Media, hear how Russia is following the well-established American track record of entering wars without plans for ending them. Plus, a sober look at Russia’s nuclear strategy. And, how the threat of nuclear apocalypse has shaped American culture since World War II. Then, a look at the 1983 made-for-TV film that spurred a national conversation about disarmament. 
1. Gideon Rose, author of How Wars End, on what Russia should've learned from America's misadventures in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/more-accurate-russian-nuclear-on-the-media">Listen</a>.
2. Kristin Ven Bruusgaard[<a href="https://twitter.com/kbruusgaard?lang=en">@KBruusgaard</a>], postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo, on the actual threat of Russia's nuclear arsenal. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/more-accurate-russian-nuclear-on-the-media">Listen</a>.
3. Alex Wellerstein [<a href="https://twitter.com/wellerstein">@wellerstein</a>], historian of science at Stevens Institute of Technology, on why the threat of nuclear apocalypse can be hard to comprehend. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/history-nuclear-threats-faults-and-fears-on-the-media">Listen</a>. 
4. Marsha Gordon [<a href="https://twitter.com/MarshaGGordon">@MarshaGGordon</a>], professor of film studies at North Carolina State University, on one of the most important films about nukes. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/day-after-new-generation-on-the-media">Listen</a>.

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