Podcast · 326 episodes
The Arms Control Wonk Podcast
The nuclear weapons, arms control, disarmament and nonproliferation podcast.
Hosted by Jeffrey Lewis & Aaron Stein · Produced by Scott LaFoy
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The Rapid Race in Space
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Aaron and Jeffrey crossed paths in Philadelphia for a TTX about space nukes and escalation dynamics. The two caught up on the game, the recent news from USAF Secretary about US weapons in orbit, and what it all means for…
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- North Korea’s missiles 57 New missiles, tests and parades, and how the team works out what North Korea actually has.
- North Korea: talks and summits 31 Summits, sanctions and statements: the Trump–Kim meetings, and the monthly “KCN-eh?” roundups of 2017–19.
- Russia’s nuclear threats 32 Burevestnik, Oreshnik, Avangard and Russia’s other new weapons, and its nuclear signaling over Ukraine.
- The Middle East: missiles and strikes 40 Iran’s missiles and space launches, the Houthis’ war on Saudi Arabia, the Iran–Israel missile exchanges, and the missile programs of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Turkey, Israel and Egypt.
- The Iran nuclear deal 34 How the JCPOA came together and fell apart, and where Iran’s nuclear program stands now.
- China’s nuclear buildup 19 New silo fields, missiles and submarines: China’s fast-growing nuclear forces.
- Everyone else’s bombs and missiles 16 Allies, rivals and would-be nuclear states: South Korea, Japan, India and Pakistan, Britain and France, and the odd mystery in Taiwan or Burma.
- Arms control treaties 37 INF, New START, the test ban and the NPT: the treaties that limited nuclear arms, and their unraveling.
- US nuclear policy 34 Posture reviews, budgets, new weapons, and the debate over resuming nuclear testing.
- Space and missile defense 17 Anti-satellite weapons, Golden Dome and the new race in orbit.
- Open-source sleuthing 21 How the team and friends find things with satellite images, photos and other public data.
- Nuclear history 12 Hiroshima, the Cuban missile crisis, Okinawa and a plan to nuke the Moon: the history behind today’s arsenals, often from newly declassified papers.
