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James Acton

A senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment in 2014 and co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 2019. On the show: hypersonic weapons programs, failed tests by China and the US, Russia's Avangard missile, boost-glide weapons, and missile defense.

2 episodes · 2014–2019

Episodes

1. Avangard: A Boost-Guide Primer

   Russia tested a hypersonic missile, or at least they claimed to. As of now, Putin and Russian media have told us a…

   Jan 23, 2019 44 min

2. A Hypersonic Arms Race

   What is the status of China’s and the United States’ hypersonic weapons programs? What can open source tell us about China’s most…

   Sep 1, 2014 41 min

Also writes for Arms Control Wonk

James Acton

Writing on ACW 2007–2010

James M. Acton is co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program and senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment. A physicist by training, Acton specializes in deterrence, disarmament, nonproliferation, and nuclear energy. His current research focuses on the nuclear fuel cycle in Japan and hypersonic conventional weapons.

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