Fired Navy Secretary, Fired NSB, and UAVs

About this episode

The episode discusses trends in drone deployment and recent firings in the government, including the Navy Secretary and the National Science Board.

CSET's Lauren Kahn joins us this week to discuss trends in drone deployment and whether or how they are changing the character of warfare. For the rest of the episode, well, it's a whole lot of "you're fired!" The Navy Secretary was fired (for battleships? for no battleships? for principle?). Several members of Congress under ethics investigation resigned ahead of other sanctions. And in yet more trends in the Trump administration threatening independent public science, the entire National Science Board was fired, by a short little email. All that, plus DC proms!

People in this episode

Hosts: Loren DeJonge Schulman, Radha Iyengar Plumb, Erin Simpson

Guest: Lauren Kahn

Topics covered

• drone deployment
• character of warfare
• government firings
• ethics investigation
• public science

Keywords

• drone deployment
• Navy Secretary
• National Science Board
• Trump administration
• ethics investigation
• public science

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Navy, National Science Board, Trump administration

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