Arms Control Wonk Podcast

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Launch a missile, get a pod.

Russia launched an experimental missile apparently related to the RS-26 Rubezh. Jeffrey and Aaron talk about the missile, its heritage, and what this may mean for European stability.

https://t.co/KDhOOIKBeM

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New Arms Control Wonk ep up! The legendary @fmkaplan joins @ArmsControlWonk to talk about his new novel, A Capital Calamity, a Jane-Austin-Meets-Dr.-Strangelove comedy of DC manners & etiquette, in the fraught world of consultants & consequences. Tune in.

https://t.co/dRk1DH88fK

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Double header today! @dex_eve and @ArmsControlWonk met up to talk about the PLARF's Pacific ICBM test and the DPRK's

...Sorry...

ROK's new massive missile on parade.

Old habits die hard

https://t.co/y0fUEuA1Pm
https://t.co/CWsipuAFg3

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New Arms Control Wonk podcast episode up!

@aaronstein1 and @ArmsControlWonk talk about Iran's October missile raid on Israel, and pick apart the complex internal and nuclear politics of both states.

https://t.co/mO7wYi1QIQ

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New ACW podcast up! @dex_eve joins @ArmsControlWonk to talk about Decker ID'ing the possible deployment site for the Burevestnik missile!

https://t.co/D2BkMLql3J

And check out his excellent FP piece on the same, here:

https://t.co/eInjOXupWx

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New ACW podcast episode up!
WE HAVE THE DATA! Jeffrey and Aaron comb through some of the new primary source data on Iran's missile raids against Israel, and present the first open-source validation of a wartime ballistic missile intercept.

Get hyped

https://t.co/CYsHc0MGlP

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New ACW pod episode!
Jeffrey and Aaron talk Iran's security, the state of play for nuclear politics and nuclear programs, and the insufferable automotive metaphors that plague Iran discourse.

https://t.co/i2RKhJMOX0

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New ACW pod episode! Friend of the pod @walberque joins Jeffrey to debate and discuss the leaked Russian Naval nuclear documents, Russian conceptions of core territory, and the One True Nuclear Doctrine that everyone pretends to improve on....

https://t.co/3uk1wvCzdg

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New Arms Control Wonk episode! @ArmsControlWonk and @aaronstein1 talk about the FT article on Russian nuclear doctrine and the leak of Russian documents about wargaming conflict scenarios with China.
https://t.co/M0epC9C1Ky

https://t.co/jWyhqNVvO0

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New Arms Control Wonk ep!
While we work through the confusion around *whatever* is happening in orbit:
Jeffrey went to the Nevada National Security Site (formerly the Nevada Test Site), to see U1a, P Tunnel, & all sorts of exciting transparency efforts.

https://t.co/o0qyomR5RJ

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New Arms Control Wonk Podcast up!
@ArmsControlWonk and @aaronstein1 talk about Shoigu's Shopping Trip, and the proliferation of North Korean ballistic missiles to Russia, as well as the possible South Korean responses.

https://t.co/aKXqzj7AII

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New Arms Control Wonk pod up, just like the DPRK's new satellite!

@ArmsControlWonk and @aaronstein1 talk about the ionosphere detection tool, watching for the launch, the implications of the new satellite, &the wining and dining of the spacing elite.

https://t.co/DhH3sukviD

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New ACW post! @ArmsControlWonk and @aaronstein1 walk through all the new construction at Novaya Zemlya, the Russian legal cancellation of the CTBT Ratification, and just how much pressure you should apply when squeezing a dove.

https://t.co/7C02QgIw4v

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It was an absolute blast to come on to the pod and talk North Korea with @ArmsControlWonk and @wslafoy!

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New ACW Pod ep up!
@sam_lair joins Jeffrey and Scott to talk about Kim Jong Un's recent trip to visit almost a dozen factories in the North Korean Defense Industrial Base, including the geolocation and purpose-determination of the sites.

https://t.co/O5BbQxJ0ft

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New Arms Control Wonk Podcast ep up!
@AthertonKD joins Jeffrey to talk about Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, & the choice to focus on the U.S. security apparatus and personal power politics over the human horrors of the bomb.

https://t.co/6bqgKPseIH

https://t.co/Jr10lcXkQB

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New ACW podcast episode! Jeffrey is back from Hiroshima, where nuclear diplomacy and talks of disarmament are tense.

https://t.co/jhzMUqZFAv

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New Arms Control Wonk Podcast ep up! The Germans are shoring up their defenses with....Arrow-3? Jeffrey and Aaron try to piece together what the theory is here, and if this is a genuine defense-driven move or some sort of political choice.

https://t.co/6188IwmUie

[Arms Control Wonk Podcast @ACWPodcast]

New Arms Control Wonk Podcast ep up! The Germans are shoring up their defenses with....Arrow-3? Jeffrey and Aaron try to piece together what the theory is here, and if this is a genuine defense-driven move or some sort of political choice.

https://t.co/6188IwmUie

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New ACW pod ep up! The team talks about the DPRK's new space launcher and satellite, the allegations of DPRK theft of Ukrainian rocket tech, and the implications of a (future) nascent DPRK satellite imagery capability.

https://t.co/bO1sp1veOi