The Secret History Of Nuclear War

In his new book, 'The Bomb,' journalist Fred Kaplan pulls back the curtain on how U.S. presidents, their advisers and generals have thought about, planned for — and sometimes narrowly avoided — nuclear war.

Also, we remember longtime PBS NewsHour anchor Jim Lehrer. He died last week at 85.

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