In its August 9, 2017 broadcast (72 years to the day since the U.S. atom bombed Nagasaki, Japan), both during its headline news summary, as well as the rest of the hour, Democracy Now! gave extended coverage to the tense and escalating nuclear weapons crisis between the U.S. and North Korea. Host Amy Goodman's guest for the hour was investigative journalist Allan Nairn. Nairn also joined Goodman on election night 2016, during which he referred to Trump's electoral college victory as not only a national emergency for the U.S., but an international emergency for the entire world.