Latest Treaties Podcast Episodes
Iran's Once in a Lifetime Moment
Arms Control Wonk - April 17, 2024 12:49 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsAnd you may find yourself not complying with the IAEA And you may find yourself in a war in another part of the world And you may find yourself making a metaphor about an automobile And you may find yourself enriching your uranium stocks, and building reactors And you may ask yourself "W...
Russian Nuclear Doctrine in the Financial Times 2: A Conversation with William Alberque
Arms Control Wonk - April 10, 2024 18:41 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsWilliam Alberque joins Jeffrey for a friendly and deep debate about the Russian Navy nuclear documents leaked to FT, covered in our previous episode. This is a fascinating discussion not only on the documents themselves, but what they imply for Russia's view of its own territorial integrity, ...
Russian Nuclear Doctrine in the Financial Times
Arms Control Wonk - March 10, 2024 21:44 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsMax Seddon and Chris Cook with the Financial Times have written an excellent piece on leaked Russian Naval documents that FT saw, focused on thresholds for Russian nuclear use, especially in a war scenario with China. Jeffrey and Aaron go through what the documents reveal and debate if they'r...
Exploring ALI's History and Influence
Reasonably Speaking - March 05, 2024 05:05 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 16 ratingsOn the occasion of ALI’s anniversary, we brought together three of our project Reporters to talk about ALI’s history and a few of our most influential projects. In this discussion, ALI Centennial History Book Editor Andrew Gold is joined by Deborah A. DeMott (Reporter for Restatement of the Law ...
Jeffrey Visits the Test Site
Arms Control Wonk - February 19, 2024 15:18 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsRoad trip to Vegas. As part of an NGO transparency visit, NNSA opened up the Nevada Test Site to a group of international nuclear weapons experts, including one Dr. Jeffrey Lewis. Jeffrey goes through what he saw: P Tunnel, The BEEF, and the crown jewel, U1a. This was an NNSA exercise in tra...
ALI Oral History Series: Roberta Cooper Ramo and Michael Traynor
Reasonably Speaking - February 08, 2024 05:10 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 16 ratingsMike served as ALI's eighth president from 2000 to 2008, and Roberta as ALI's ninth and first woman president from 2008 to 2017. Both are recipients of ALI's Distinguished Service Award. Beyond the ALI, Mike is senior counsel at Cobalt in Berkeley, California. He's a member of the American Acade...
Free Speech on Campus
Reasonably Speaking - January 25, 2024 05:05 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 16 ratingsThe tension between protecting and promoting freedom of speech is no better exhibited than in the university setting. Historically, colleges have been a place where young minds have been encouraged to exercise true freedom of thought. But to what extent is that freedom protected? Additionally, h...
Russia Buys North Korean Missiles
Arms Control Wonk - January 17, 2024 01:25 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsShoigu went shopping. Russia is buying KN-23 and KN-25 missiles from North Korea and launching them in support of its invasion of Ukraine. Imagery from on the ground clearly shows North Korean style solid-propellant missiles. Jeffrey and Aaron talk about what this means for global ballistic...
North Korea's New Satellite
Arms Control Wonk - November 28, 2023 01:40 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsNorth Korea finally got a reconnaissance satellite into orbit, after several failed prior attempts! While it is a little rough around the edges, every program has to start somewhere. Jeffrey and Aaron talk through the implications of the DPRK's reconnaissance satellite, the relationship of the...
The Reason We're all Still Here
Arms Control Wonk - October 14, 2023 21:07 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsTake a listen to the latest season of Jeffrey Lewis's podcast, The Reason We're All Still Here Far too often, governments behave like toddlers. They’re fickle. They don’t like to share. And good luck getting them to pay attention to any problem that isn’t directly in front of them. They like t...
Shenanigans in Novaya Zemlya
Arms Control Wonk - October 11, 2023 23:41 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsLooks like everyone is preparing for a party. Between Russia's potential un-signing of a nuclear test treaty, threats to test "if the United States does," and refurbishments at Novaya Zemlya, things aren't looking great for the longevity of nuclear test ban norms. China and the U.S. have been...
Kim Jong Un's Excellent Adventure
Arms Control Wonk - August 17, 2023 19:04 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsSam Lair joins the podcast to talk about Kim Jong Un's recent whirlwind tour of the North Korean Defense Industrial Base with Jeffrey and Scott. If you're into missiles, geolocation, and machine tools (and, if you listen to this podcast, you probably are), you're going to want to tune in. Sa...
Oppenheimer
Arms Control Wonk - August 07, 2023 23:27 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsJeffrey is joined by the illustrious Kelsey Atherton to discuss Christopher Nolan's film Oppenheimer, as well as the history and legacy of the titular man himself. Kelsey and Jeffrey dive into the choice to focus on Oppenheimer's own security legacy and bypass the direct and indirect horrors aff...
Hiroshima 2023
Arms Control Wonk - August 05, 2023 14:11 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsJeffrey is back from Hiroshima, where he participated in a Track 2 nuclear dialogue. The outlook for near-term arms control is still grim. Jeffrey and Aaron unpack the G7 statements on disarmament that the Japanese representatives wanted to re-affirm, the tacit condemnation of Russian and Chin...
What the F*** Do They Think the Russians are Going to Shoot at Them?!
Arms Control Wonk - July 18, 2023 22:36 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsGermany has a gap that needs to be filled in the face of Russian threats. But this time it isn't Fulda, it is....the exoatmospheric layer of ballistic missile defenses? Jeffrey and Aaron try to understand Germany's decision to buy the very fancy Israeli/American Arrow-3 exoatmospheric BMD syst...
Failure to Launch
Arms Control Wonk - July 06, 2023 21:19 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsJeffrey is back from Japan and North Korea's satellite-turned-submarine is back from the bottom of the ocean! North Korea's failed Chollima-1 space launcher and its payload, the Malligyong-1, failed to reach space on May 30. Jeffrey and Aaron talk about the Japanese response to the launch, the...
Shangri-la Dialogue with Ankit Panda
Arms Control Wonk - June 12, 2023 20:58 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsAnkit Panda joins Jeffrey by the every so fancy pool at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, where they talk about competing speeches and messaging, the views on US-China competition from Southeast Asia, and about how Jeffrey didn't make any new friends in the PLA this year. Support us over a...
The CAT I is Out of the Bag
Arms Control Wonk - May 21, 2023 19:02 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsUkraine is getting the SCALP-EG/Storm Shadow cruise missile, and that's raising a whole lot of questions about MTCR guidelines Jeffrey and Aaron talk about the history of the Missile Technology Control Regime, what it was meant to originally address, and the whole host of problems associated ...
The Washington Declaration
Arms Control Wonk - May 06, 2023 14:46 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsPresident Yoon of South Korea recently visited the United States to talk nukes and Don McLean with President Biden. Jeffrey and Aaron talk through what the Declaration actually covers, how much was material and how much was fluff, and the moonwalking capabilities of the D5 SLBM. Support us ...
FINALLY. North Korea's Solid ICBM: The Hwasong-18
Arms Control Wonk - April 15, 2023 19:26 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsFINALLY. After almost a decade of hinting and teasing and parading fake empty canisters, North Korea has debuted its long-awated solid propellant ICBM. And the team have some questions about where the construction and testing sites were... Jeffrey, Scott, and Dave descend upon the CNS D...
Iran, the IAEA, and the Kingdom
Arms Control Wonk - March 21, 2023 20:25 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsThe IAEA is doing a great job with the s**t we're handing them. A very jetlagged Jeffrey joins Aaron to talk about the IAEA and the very positive role that Director General Rafael Grossi has played in trying to hold together the nuclear situation with Iran. JCPOA-holdover cameras, discontinuity ...
The Actual Demise of New START
Arms Control Wonk - March 09, 2023 00:49 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsNew START has been in peril for years. The first episode of the pod was about the INF Treaty being in danger, and here we are, 8 years later, with almost no arms control treaties left. Maybe it is time to rename the pod Arms Race Wonk, because the next few years are going to be scary. Jeffr...
Another North Korean Missile Parade
Arms Control Wonk - February 10, 2023 22:43 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsJeffrey, Aaron, and Scott say the unthinkable: we're a little tired of the parades. But we're glad the youthes are still ordering pizza and crowding around the computer to watch. North Korea paraded at least 15 ICBMs, including 4 that were clearly meant to look like solid-propellent ICBMs. We...
McKeown on the Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas
Reasonably Speaking - January 24, 2023 06:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 16 ratingsALI President David F. Levi sits down with M. Margaret McKeown, senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, for a discussion on McKeown’s new book, Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas—Public Advocate and Conservation Champion. U.S. Supreme Court ...
One of Them is Wrong About That
Arms Control Wonk - January 16, 2023 20:13 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsBoth plan on going first, but... President Yoon Suk-yeol of South Korea is being piled on for discussing South Korean pursuits of nuclear weapons (although what he said *exactly* was distorted a little). In the face of increasing pressure to respond to North Korea's nuclear posture, South Ko...
Detecting Missile Launches with Ionospheric Disturbances
Arms Control Wonk - December 21, 2022 01:14 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsTyler Nighswander and Mike Nute have developed an incredible tool for detecting long-range missile and space launches by processing and visualizing ionospheric disturbances in GPS data. In one of the most fascinating and technically complex episodes of the ACW pod, Tyler and Mike join Jeffrey...
How Sting Likes to Test
Arms Control Wonk - December 03, 2022 16:52 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsJeeze that was a big missile. North Korea has tested another large ICBM, and this one was (another) doozy. Jeffrey and Aaron talk through modelling this missile, the potential theft of missile tech from Ukraine, Kim Jong Un's Bring Your Daughter to Work Day, and the incredible Missile Launch D...
New New START or New Finish?
Arms Control Wonk - November 13, 2022 13:53 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsThe Biden administration has been working to re-kindle New START talks with Russia, while working to deter Russian WMD use in Ukraine, in an era that increasingly appears to be about risk management instead of risk reduction. How do you restart heavily managed talks in an era of COVID restrictio...
The Lake-Bed Missile
Arms Control Wonk - November 10, 2022 01:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsLaunch a missile get a pod Launch a missile get a pod Launch a missile get a pod Launch a missile get a pod Launch a missile get a pod Launch a missile get a pod Launch a missile get a pod Launch a missile get a pod Launch a missile get a pod Launch a missile get a pod Aa...
Another Crazy Train
Arms Control Wonk - October 22, 2022 21:54 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 400 ratingsThe Russian invasion of Ukraine is giving people brain worms. Multiple terrible reports, citing oSiNt aNaLyStS, have recently been released and grossly overexaggerated the risk of nuclear weapons use around Ukraine. These reports, particularly about the "nuclear weapons convoy headed towards Ukr...
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