How do we step back from the brink and reduce the very real threat that nuclear weapons continue to pose? Nuclear weapons continue to impact people’s lives, even if they are sometimes treated as historical threats of a prior era. Jeffrey and Aaron sit down with Lisa Perry and Dr. William Perry, 19th Secretary of …
Archives for September 2020
The Well-Read Wonk
by | September 27, 2020 | 1 Comment
Quote of the week: “The hour is late. Let us hope not too late.” – Glenn Seaborg, Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Test Ban Don’t jump to conclusions from the hyperbolic title of Steve Olson’s new book, The Apocalypse Factory. The subtitle tells all: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age. Steve has written a thoughtful, well-researched book …
Vacancies
by | September 20, 2020 | 2 Comments
Quote of the week: “The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.”– Jimmy Breslin Lyric of the week: “We all must feel heartache sometimesRight now, right now I’m feelin’ mine” — “Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While).” For the real deal, hear the original Holland–Dozier–Holland Motown version by Kim Weston Ruth …
Chauncey Gardner Returns
by | September 11, 2020 | 1 Comment
Quotes of the week: “I like gardening. It’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.” – Alice Sebold “A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.” – May Sarton MK: Chauncey, this is an unexpected pleasure. CG: I’m feeling morose and thought …
The Deal Episode 1: The Revelation
by | September 8, 2020 | No Comments
In 2002, Corey Hinderstein, a young research analyst, follows a hunch after a routine press conference in Washington, D.C. The results of her scavenger hunt sparked a diplomatic crisis that stretched more than a decade, lasted through two presidencies, and ended with a deal that, depending on whom you ask, either “makes our country, and …
The Deal: Promo
by | September 7, 2020 | No Comments
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. …
Stigmatizing Nuclear Threats
by | September 6, 2020 | 2 Comments
Verse of the week: “Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.” – Lord Byron Lyric of the week: You can climb a mountain You can swim the sea You can jump into the fire But you’ll never be free You can shake me up Or …
