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US Department of Defense rebranded 'Department of War'

The move restores a name the agency last held in the 1940s

US President Donald Trump has officially ordered that the Department of Defense be renamed the "Department of War."

Also in the programme: The UK's deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, has resigned from the government after admitting she should have paid more tax on a flat she bought earlier this year; and we discuss the inspiration behind brutalist architecture with Barnabas Calde, author of 'Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism'.

Presenter Julian Worricker is joined by Darya Dolzikova, a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute defence think-tank in London specialising in nuclear proliferation and policy and Daniel Glaser, a neuroscientist and writer.

(Photo:Signage is replaced after Trump ordered return to the US 'War Department' in Washington. Reuters, Jonathan Ernst)

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