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Live Bonus Episode
Nov 1, 2023
49m 11s
Signs for the Future
Oct 25, 2023
39m 53s
An Illegal Floating City
Oct 18, 2023
31m 53s
The Leak from Compound 19
Oct 11, 2023
26m 38s
Ground Control to Space Junk
Oct 4, 2023
28m 24s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 11/1/23 | Live Bonus Episode | The United States Library of Congress selected Dr. Strangelove as one of the first 25 films in the National Film Registry. As we approach the 60th anniversary of Dr. Strangelove (in Jan 2024), our live podcast panel takes a critical look at the dark comedy and reveals how the satire is uncomfortably realistic, even to this day. Using dialogue from the film as prompts, our panel explains to listeners its historical references and draws parallels to today’s international diplomatic landscape. | 49m 11s | ||||||
| 10/25/23 | Signs for the Future | Some questions fall far outside the scope of what governments are designed to answer. How will we explain ourselves to extraterrestrials? What can we say to warn humans 10,000 years in the future about the nuclear waste we’re leaving behind? Assuming we develop the proper technology, would it be beneficial to breed glowing cats?Two decades after NASA shot a message to aliens into deep space, one of its authors joined an eclectic group of experts and went down a similar rabbit hole regarding nuclear waste. The result was one of the most outlandish, mind-bending, and heartfelt reports ever commissioned by the US government. This episode features artist Jon Lomberg, former NRDC lawyer Dan Reicher, and futurist Ted Gordon. | 39m 53s | ||||||
| 10/18/23 | An Illegal Floating City | Fishermen dying mysteriously off the coast of Japan. Entire populations of sea animals disappearing. Despite decades of work by the international community, the high seas remain law enforcement’s biggest blind spot, and the site of environmental crimes whose effects reach around the world. But some people are attempting to stop these crimes: We follow the investigations of two private-citizen sleuths, one using satellites to expose massive but previously untraceable illegal fleets, another using spycraft to infiltrate a criminal network of poachers and smugglers operating on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.This episode features Sara Mitchell, professor of political science at the University of Iowa; as well as Jaeyoon Park of Global Fishing Watch and Andrea Crosta, founder and Executive Director of Earth League International. | 31m 53s | ||||||
| 10/11/23 | The Leak from Compound 19 | In February 2020, an elite group of biosecurity experts, worried about the threat of pandemics, plays a bizarrely prescient role-playing game. They run into an age-old pattern of secrecy and mistrust, one that thwarts their efforts to ‘beat’ the game. We travel back to a (real-life) period when dozens of mysterious deaths occurred in a closed Soviet city. As it turns out, hidden pieces of lung tissue help shed light on what, to this day, keeps the nations of the world from working together to fight infectious disease. | 26m 38s | ||||||
| 10/4/23 | Ground Control to Space Junk | There are no international laws against littering in space, which is a shame, because individual governments love to blow things up in low-Earth orbit. The result? A crisis of ricocheting debris that goes on forever. As private industry sends an unprecedented number of satellites into orbit, security experts find themselves in a race against the clock to bring sanity (or sanitation?) to the space around us. This episode features former NASA astrophysicist Donald Kessler, Professor Mariel Borowitz of Georgia Tech, and Victoria Samson and Brian Weeden of the Secure World Foundation. | 28m 24s | ||||||
| 9/27/23 | Windmills in a North Korean Cabbage Patch | An arms-control advocate accepts an invitation to the dacha of a hard-partying North Korean power broker. There, through a haze of smoke and propaganda, they identify some common ground and set out to test a hypothesis: That it’s possible for Americans and North Koreans to work together toward peace. The result is a tense but extraordinary moment in the relationship between North Korea and the West, a rare example of collaboration that has been almost entirely lost to history.This episode features Peter Hayes and Lyuba Zarsky, co-founders of the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, and David von Hippel, an energy expert who worked with Peter in North Korea. | 35m 59s | ||||||
| 9/20/23 | Skinny-Dipping in the USSR | As the Cold War draws to a close, a group of American scientists hatches a plan to board a Soviet warship with a nuclear weapons detector to prove to their own government that the USSR is open to nuclear arms verification. Meet the guys who brought a slug of depleted uranium through security at LaGuardia Airport, sat atop a Soviet nuclear device in the Black Sea, and skinny-dipped with their counterparts from the other side of the Iron Curtain.This episode features three physicists: Tom Cochran, formerly of the NRDC; Frank von Hippel, a professor of physics at Princeton University; and Steve Fetter, a professor at the University of Maryland. | 27m 43s | ||||||
| 9/13/23 | You’re Welcome (A Prologue) | If you’re reading this, and you’re not in some sort of irradiated, post-apocalyptic hellscape… well, you can thank our host Jeffrey Lewis. He studies nukes—who has them, who wants them, and how to prevent them from going off—so that we’re less likely to die in a nuclear war. The thing is, lots of people have jobs like this. They’re not celebrities and they’re not even politicians. They’re the people looking for solutions to problems that most people haven’t thought about yet, doing research that most people won’t ever hear about, and, of course, writing papers that most people are never going to read. But collectively, they’re making it a little less likely that war will break out, bombs will fall, and we’ll all die horribly. Call them wonks, call them cranks, call them idealists…we call them the reason we’re all still here.This prologue establishes what you’ll hear this season: the type of international, non-governmental diplomacy that aims to keep civilization alive. Sometimes solutions are found in unlikely places… like a suitcase shop in Tehran. This episode features an unlikely friend of Dr. Lewis: Max Angerholzer, CEO of George and Barbara Bush Foundation. | 9m 32s | ||||||
| 8/22/23 | Introducing: The Reason We’re All Still Here | With the Iran nuclear deal dead as a doorknob, Jeffrey Lewis set out to make a new podcast, one that tells stories of scientists, journalists and maybe a vigilante or two... private citizens who are working to solve diplomatic problems and prevent the next global catastrophe. Yes this podcast is about saving the world – one arduous, unlikely, under-funded, seemingly impossible mission at a time. Skinny dipping physicists, activists living on houseboats and, of course, at least one person looking at satellite images in his pajamas..The Reason We’re All Still Here is a production from Gilded Audio and The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at The Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Proliferation is just a fancy word for the spread of nuclear weapons. Nonproliferation is stopping it. | 2m 46s | ||||||
| 7/17/21 | Episode 5: The Worst Case Scenario (Almost) | The invasion of Iraq led Jeffrey Lewis to make the spread of nuclear weapons the focus of his professional life. The ensuing carnage made clear that solving these problems with force only makes things worse. We can do better than this, right? | 23m 02s | ||||||
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| 6/23/21 | Episode 4: Stuxnet | Everyone always asks, "what about Stuxnet?" Yeah? What about it? | 17m 26s | ||||||
| 6/11/21 | Episode 3: Safeguards | The IAEA is sort of like a beach club. You don't HAVE to join. But there are perks if you do. | 18m 15s | ||||||
| 3/23/21 | Episode 2: Nuclear Rx | Like most things, nuclear technology is not all bad. | 14m 44s | ||||||
| 2/22/21 | Episode 1: What Is Past Is Prologue | Why is the Biden administration so cautious about something that is so obviously in our interest? | 22m 12s | ||||||
| 10/13/20 | Episode 5: The Power to Hurt | It’s not that we’re going to wake up tomorrow and there will be a nuclear war. It’s that if things don’t change, someday there will be. Content warning: This episode refers to Islamophobic sentiments in the American public. Content warning: Islamophobia. | 23m 09s | ||||||
| 9/29/20 | Episode 4: The Unraveling | Not everyone is impressed by Moniz and Salehi’s clever solutions. | 23m 43s | ||||||
| 9/22/20 | Episode 3: The Scientists | Two former MIT colleagues, Dr. Ernie Moniz and Dr. Ali Salehi, are brought to the world’s highest-stakes negotiating table. | 27m 19s | ||||||
| 9/15/20 | Episode 2: The Backchannel | An Iranian volley is returned after 10 years. | 23m 09s | ||||||
| 9/8/20 | Episode 1: The Revelation | In 2002, a young researcher follows a hunch that will change the course of history. | 29m 10s | ||||||
| 8/10/20 | The Deal: Coming Soon | The Deal: The story of the Iran nuclear deal; how it came together, how it fell apart, and what that means for the rest of us. Hosted by Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. | 2m 20s | ||||||
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