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Geopolitics Decanted by SilveradoPutin’s Nuclear MeltdownDmitri Alperovitch talks all things nukes with Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, an expert in arms control and nuclear and missile nonproliferation, currently a professor at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and director of the CNS East Asia Nonproliferation Program.
They discuss:
- Putin's frustrations about limitations of nuclear blackmail and his responses to the ATACMS targeting decision by the Biden Administration
- What the new Russian nuclear doctrine means for World War III prospects
- What the Ukraine conflict teaches us...2024-11-2643 min
Iran Watch ListenThe Past, Present, and Future of Iran-Russia Military CooperationIn this episode of Iran Watch Listen, we sat down with Hanna Notte and Jim Lamson, experts at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. We discussed the history of Iran and Russia’s military relationship, how it has changed since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and areas where both countries might benefit from deeper cooperation in the future. The conversation took place on August 21 and was hosted by John Caves, a Senior Research Associate at the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, and John Krzyzaniak, a Research Associate at the Wisconsin Project. Expert Bios 2024-09-1752 min
Multilateralismo EficazT.4 E.12 10ª Escuela de verano sobre desarme nuclear y no proliferación para diplomáticos latinoamericanos y caribeñosEsta año se cumplen 10 años de la Escuela de verano sobre desarme nuclear y no proliferación para diplomáticos latinoamericanos y caribeños, que es organizada por el Gobierno de México, en coordinación con el Centro de Estudios James Martin para la no Proliferación (CNS) del Middlebury Institute of International Studies y el Organismo para la Proscripción de las Armas Nucleares en la América Latina y el Caribe (OPANAL)
2024-06-2835 min
Machiavelli in the Ivory TowerEpisode 11: Germany's Atomic Zeitenwende - A Conversation with Ulrich KühnIn this episode of Machiavelli in the Ivory Tower, hosts Sarah and Hanna speak with Ulrich Kühn, who is head of the research area “Arms Control and Emerging Technologies” at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH) and a Non-Resident Scholar of the Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. They discuss “Germany and Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century: Atomic Zeitenwende?”, a new book Ulrich edited and published with Routledge in early 2024.
Topics addressed:
“Germany and Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century: Atomic Zeitenwende?”
Germany and nuclear deter...2024-05-3048 minMachiavelli in the Ivory TowerEpisode 10: The psychology of nuclear brinkmanship with Rose McDermottIn this episode of Machiavelli in the Ivory Tower, hosts Hanna and Sarah are joined by Rose McDermott, the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor of International Relations at Brown University. Together, they discuss Professor McDermott's recent article with Reid Pauly on the psychology of nuclear brinkmanship, the under-appreciated role of individuals in nuclear decision-making, and similarities and differences between the psychologies of political elites and the general population. They also consider more generally how and where political psychology and behavioral economics can enhance security studies by challenging normative assumptions about nuclear decision-making and shedding light on the ways...2024-04-0730 minMachiavelli in the Ivory TowerEpisode 09: North Korea and the Bomb - A Conversation with Ankit PandaIn this episode of Machiavelli in the Ivory Tower, hosts Sarah and Hanna speak with Ankit Panda, who is the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. They begin their wide-ranging discussion with a review of Ankit's 2020 book "Kim Jong Un and the Bomb: Survival and Deterrence in North Korea". Sarah, Hanna, and Ankit then engage in an exchange on current developments on the Korean Peninsula, North Korea's cooperation with Russia, and the need to treat North Korea as a problem of nuclear risk reduction, among other issues. They end by...2024-03-2040 minGeopolitics Decanted by SilveradoWhy North Korea is Probably Not Planning a WarDmitri Alperovitch talks with Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, an expert in arms control and nuclear and missile nonproliferation, currently a professor at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and director of the CNS East Asia Nonproliferation Program.
They discuss whether the nearly $130 billion that the US is planning to spend to modernize its land-based nuclear arsenal is money well spent, whether the nuclear deterrent triad of land, submarine and bomber-based nuclear weapons still makes sense in this day and age, the cyber risk of the nuclear modernization program...2024-02-2255 min
Opening Up: A Conflict Transformation PodcastStrategic Empathy and Strategic WeaponsStrategic empathy is the sincere effort to identify and assess patterns of behavior and the underlying drivers and constraints that shape those patterns. In a CT Collaborative-funded research project, a team from the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at MIIS explored the utility of this concept for understanding the acquisition, threat, and use of strategic weapons. In this episode, we offer selections from a 2023 webinar describing the project's insights. Through case studies involving three US adversaries – Russia, North Korea, and Iran – the authors suggest that a more holistic, nuanced understanding of the adversary can inform effective polic...2023-10-2334 min
Machiavelli in the Ivory TowerEpisode 08 : Russia's Nuclear Fever - A Conversation with Rose GottemoellerIn this episode of Machiavelli in the Ivory Tower, hosts Sarah and Hanna speak with Rose Gottemoeller, who is the Steven C. Hazy lecturer at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). Prior to joining Stanford, Ms. Gottemoeller served as the Deputy Secretary General of NATO and, before that, as Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security at the US Department of State.
They begin their wide-ranging conversation with a discussion of the challenges and policy recommendations that Ms. Gottemoeller raised in a recent piece for the Financial Times, in which she argued that the “West...2023-06-2835 minMachiavelli in the Ivory TowerEpisode 07: All Options on the Table: Leaders, Preventive War, and Nuclear Proliferation - A Conversation with Rachel WhitlarkIn this episode of Machiavelli in the Ivory Tower, hosts Sarah and Hanna speak with Rachel Whitlark, associate professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Their conversation focuses on Professor Whitlark’s 2021 book, All Options on the Table: Leaders, Preventive War, and Nuclear Proliferation, and what it reveals about the influence of leaders’ prior beliefs on their counterproliferation strategies once in office.
They begin with a discussion of the origins of this volume, where it fits within broader IR scholarship and the challenges and rewards of using archival material to unde...2023-05-1643 minMachiavelli in the Ivory TowerEpisode 06: One Year On - The Proliferation Implications of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine. A Conversation with Professor Nicholas MillerIn this episode of Machiavelli in the Ivory Tower, hosts Sarah and Hanna speak with Nicholas Miller, associate professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. Their conversation focuses on the proliferation implications of Russia’s war against Ukraine one year on. With Professor Miller, they examine the evolving discourse around proliferation cascades over time and assess whether concerns about the emergence of such a cascade following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have been exaggerated. In so doing, they discuss insights Professor Miller has derived from his work relating to the factors that drive or inhibit proliferation, the degr...2023-02-211h 07Machiavelli in the Ivory TowerEpisode 05: North Korea's Nuclear Hinge PointsIn this episode of Machiavelli in the Ivory Tower, hosts Sarah and Hanna speak with Dr. Siegfried Hecker, former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory and current Distinguished Professor of Practice at CNS. Their conversation centers on Dr. Hecker's forthcoming book, Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea's Nuclear Program (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023). Dr. Hecker offers insights into the DPRK's dual-track strategy of diplomacy and nuclear development and highlights missed opportunities when Washington might have been able to channel Pyongyang toward the elimination of nuclear weapons and did not. He shares insights gleaned from his many...2022-11-2248 minMachiavelli in the Ivory TowerEpisode 04: Nuclear Deterrence and the War in Ukraine: A Conversation with Dr. Jeffrey LewisIn this episode of Machiavelli in the Ivory Tower, hosts Sarah and Hanna are joined by Jeffrey Lewis, Professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS). Jeffrey is also the founder of Arms Control Wonk, the leading blog and podcast on arms control, disarmament, and nonproliferation.
Today's discussion topics include:
the implications of Russia's war against Ukraine and China's growing nuclear arsenal on the concept of nuclear deterrence;
the ways forward in dealing with Iran's nuclear program;
the challenges...2022-08-2939 min
Machiavelli in the Ivory TowerEpisode 03: Nuclear Escalation and the War in Ukraine: A Conversation with Dr. Kristin ven BruusgaardThe third episode of the podcast series deals with nuclear escalation and the war in Ukraine. Hosts Sarah Bidgood and Hanna Notte invite Dr. Kristin ven Bruusgaard, a Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo, to explain the implications of Russian nuclear strategy and the modernization of its conventional forces for the ongoing war in Ukraine. Has the Russian Government already decided to use nuclear weapons? Tune in to find out.2022-04-2235 minMachiavelli in the Ivory TowerEpisode 02: Nuclear Weapons and the War in Ukraine: A Conversation with Dr. Mariana BudjerynIn the second episode of the series, Sarah and Hanna speak with Dr. Mariana Budjeryn, a research associate with the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. Dr. Budjeryn discusses her new book, Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2022). In their conversation, the hosts and guest draw connections between Dr. Budjeryn’s findings and the war in Ukraine, focusing in particular on the implications of Russia’s unprovoked invasion for nonproliferation and arms control and Russia’s spurious allegations that Ukraine...2022-03-1842 min
Machiavelli in the Ivory TowerEpisode 01: Nuclear Doctrine and the Law of Armed Conflict—A Conversation with Professor Scott SaganIn the first episode of the series, Sarah and Hanna speak with Prof. Scott Sagan, who is the Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science, the Mimi and Peter Haas University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, and Senior Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University. The hosts discuss with Professor Sagan his recently coauthored article in International Security entitled, “The Rule of Law and the Role of Strategy in US Nuclear Doctrine.” The conversation tackles the relationship between nuclear doctrine and the law of armed conflict, related ethical and lega...2022-01-2647 min
Sicherheitshalber#20 Raketen, Raketen, Raketen | Macron, AKK und NATO“Sicherheitshalber” ist der Podcast zur sicherheitspolitischen Lage in Deutschland, Europa und der Welt. In Folge 20 sprechen Thomas Wiegold, Ulrike Franke, Frank Sauer und Carlo Masala zuerst mit dem aus Kalifornien zugeschalteten Fabian Hinz, der Politikwissenschaft mit Islamwissenschaft zu Raketenwissenschaft kombiniert und am Beispiel des Iran erläutert, wie Raketen und dazugehörige Technologie sich verbreiten und warum das sicherheitspolitisch brisant ist. Danach wenden die vier Podcaster sich dem aktuellen Trubel rund um die NATO zu - Carlo und Rike streiten sich hingebungsvoll über Macrons “Hirntod”-Diagnose und Frank kann zum Schluss nur mit Mühe das Gespräch doch nochmal in Richtung A...2019-11-211h 17
Fr. Z's Blog - PODCAzTsMere days after meeting with Jesuit homosexualist, Francis witnesses pagan ceremony in gardenMere days after Francis granted an audience to Jesuit Homosexualist Activist James Martin for a photo op, the same Francis sat in the Vatican gardens in front of a S. American totem of what very much appears to be a man ... ready for sex. HERE
On the other hand, some say that, from a different angle, what is protruding is an arm. HERE
You decide. I might add, does anyone think of the optics of these moments? Is there no one who walks around it and says, "No... that's not gonna fly!"?
Whether Francis knew that his schedule was going to i...2019-10-0500 min
The Secure World Foundation PodcastSpectrum Protection: An Examination of the Policy and Practical ImplicationsOur continued ability to get benefits from space assets will be interrupted if spectrum is not responsibly protected. This issue is coming up more and more often, particularly so at meetings last November in Geneva for the World Radiocommunication Conference and as policymakers look at the future of GPS and other positioning, navigation, and timing systems. As the U.S. government takes on the mantle of looking at how its space assets can overall be more resilient, spectrum protection is a key part of this discussion.
This lunch-time panel will examine what major issues could potentially affect spec...2016-04-081h 54