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Space and missile defense
Anti-satellite weapons, Golden Dome and the new race in orbit.
Missile defense 9
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Calculating the Cost of Golden Dome
Is space based missile defense all gold and no dome? Aaron and Jeffrey sit down with FPRI Fellow Sam Lair to discuss…
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A Pod of Dynamite
Jeffrey and Scott watched the new Kathryn Bigelow movie “House of Dynamite” and they both have opinions. The crew talks through both the…
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Brilliant Swarms
Aaron and Jeffrey sat down for their first video podcast to discuss the cost of Brilliant Swarm, the name du moment of Brilliant Pebbles,…
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What the F*** Do They Think the Russians are Going to Shoot at Them?!
Germany has a gap that needs to be filled in the face of Russian threats. But this time it isn’t Fulda, it…
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What’s Up with Turkey’s S400?
Turkey previously announced that its S400 air defense regiment would be activated and in service by the end of April, 2020, after…
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97% Invincible
President Trump said each of the missile defense interceptors at the Ground-based Midcourse Defense site in Alaska has a 97% chance of…
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MDA Shoots Down an ICBM Target
The US conducted a successful test, FTG-15, of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system designed to protect the United States against a…
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THAAD Deployment
Jeffrey and Aaron don’t really want to keep talking about North Korea, but there is a US THAAD battery sitting on a…
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BMD 101
Do you get lost in missile defense jargon? Have trouble with radar bands, layering, or interceptor types? Jeffrey and Aaron take a…
Space and anti-satellite weapons 8
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The Rapid Race in Space
Aaron and Jeffrey crossed paths in Philadelphia for a TTX about space nukes and escalation dynamics. The two caught up on the…
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Orbital Collisions
Aaron and Jeffrey sat down to discuss the latest news about anti-satellite warfare and why bumping and grinding in the cosmos is…
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American ASAT Controls
The U.S. has unilaterally committed to not conducting destructive anti-satellite missile tests! Jeffrey and Aaron walk through what the U.S. has actually…
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Russia’s Nudol Anti-Satellite Missile Test
In mid-April, Russia tested a direct ascent anti-satellite missile (DA ASAT), the Nudol/PL19, against a point in space. Anti-satellite weapons are an…
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Mission Shakti: The Indian Anti-Satellite Test
Test a missile, get a pod. Kill a satellite? Get a podcast with a special guest. Ankit Panda joins Aaron and Jeffrey…
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Nuke the Moon.
Jeffrey and Scott celebrate the Lunar New Year by sharing two stories about how the moon featured in the arms race. Scott…
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Space and Emerging Technologies: Future Proliferation Threats
Aaron and Jeffrey talk with Theresa Hitchens, the Director of UNIDIR, about life in Geneva, space, and emerging technologies. The podcast begins…
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Satellites Under Threat: The Spread of Hit-To-Kill
What are the implications of the spread of hit-to-kill? What are the differences between ground based missile defense interceptors and anti-satellite weapons?…