Best Nuclear Disarmament Podcasts (2023)

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On Human Rights

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María Carolina Romero Lares - World Maritime Day 2023 36:07

2d ago36:07

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With firsthand professional experience both as a delegate at international forums representing her homeland and in the classroom, Prof. Romero brings a unique perspective to the Maritime Law and Policy Specialisation. She lectures on International Organisations and Maritime Conventions, the Law of the Sea, and the Protection of the Marine Environme…

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On Human Rights

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Alyn Ware - Peace Educator and Nuclear Disarmament Consultant 31:21

1M ago31:21

31:21

Alyn Ware is a peace educator and nuclear disarmament consultant from New Zealand. In 2009, he received the Right Livelihood Award for his vast efforts to promote peace education and disarmament.The Right Livelihood Award, also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize,” is an international award given annually to honor individuals, organizations, and …

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Arms Control Wonk

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Kim Jong Un's Excellent Adventure 56:53

1M ago56:53

56:53

Sam Lair joins the podcast to talk about Kim Jong Un's recent whirlwind tour of the North Korean Defense Industrial Base with Jeffrey and Scott. If you're into missiles, geolocation, and machine tools (and, if you listen to this podcast, you probably are), you're going to want to tune in. Sam and Jeffrey have been mapping out the DPRK DIB, includin…

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Arms Control Wonk

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Oppenheimer 54:14

2M ago54:14

54:14

Jeffrey is joined by the illustrious Kelsey Atherton to discuss Christopher Nolan's film Oppenheimer, as well as the history and legacy of the titular man himself. Kelsey and Jeffrey dive into the choice to focus on Oppenheimer's own security legacy and bypass the direct and indirect horrors affected upon the Congolese miners, New Mexicans, and Jap…

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Arms Control Wonk

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Hiroshima 2023 34:05

2M ago34:05

34:05

Jeffrey is back from Hiroshima, where he participated in a Track 2 nuclear dialogue. The outlook for near-term arms control is still grim. Jeffrey and Aaron unpack the G7 statements on disarmament that the Japanese representatives wanted to re-affirm, the tacit condemnation of Russian and Chinese contained within, and the global theater around narr…

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Arms Control Wonk

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What the F*** Do They Think the Russians are Going to Shoot at Them?! 26:09

2M ago26:09

26:09

Germany has a gap that needs to be filled in the face of Russian threats. But this time it isn't Fulda, it is....the exoatmospheric layer of ballistic missile defenses? Jeffrey and Aaron try to understand Germany's decision to buy the very fancy Israeli/American Arrow-3 exoatmospheric BMD system, in absense of a specific Russian missile system and …

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Arms Control Wonk

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Failure to Launch 25:43

3M ago25:43

25:43

Jeffrey is back from Japan and North Korea's satellite-turned-submarine is back from the bottom of the ocean! North Korea's failed Chollima-1 space launcher and its payload, the Malligyong-1, failed to reach space on May 30. Jeffrey and Aaron talk about the Japanese response to the launch, the North Korean reponse to the failure, and whether or not…

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On Human Rights

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Jules Han Amm - Trans Rights are Human Rights 24:01

3M ago24:01

24:01

Jules Han Amm is a PhD candidate at Uppsala University with most of their work focusing on the trans community and its internal disputes as well as legal frameworks of informed consent, self-determination, and trans healthcare access. Jules acquired a Bachelor’s in development studies and Master’s in Gender Studies from Lund University. In this epi…

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Arms Control Wonk

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Shangri-la Dialogue with Ankit Panda 33:55

4M ago33:55

33:55

Ankit Panda joins Jeffrey by the every so fancy pool at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, where they talk about competing speeches and messaging, the views on US-China competition from Southeast Asia, and about how Jeffrey didn't make any new friends in the PLA this year. Support us over at Patreon.com/acwpodcast!…

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On Human Rights

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Marthe Wandou - On her work as a gender and peace activist 26:19

4M ago26:19

26:19

Marthe is a Cameroonian human rights, gender and peace activist. Since the 1990s, she has worked to prevent and fight sexual violence against children. She founded her organization ALDEPA in 1998, where she supports the well-being of girls through education, bro-bono legal assistance and psychosocial care. In 2019 she was awarded the Right liveliho…

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On Human Rights

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Morten Koch Andersen - The nexus between human rights and corruption 16:39

4M ago16:39

16:39

Morten Koch Andersen, expert on human rights and corruption explainsBy The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

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Arms Control Wonk

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The CAT I is Out of the Bag 38:08

4M ago38:08

38:08

Ukraine is getting the SCALP-EG/Storm Shadow cruise missile, and that's raising a whole lot of questions about MTCR guidelines Jeffrey and Aaron talk about the history of the Missile Technology Control Regime, what it was meant to originally address, and the whole host of problems associated with figuring out what a destabilizing cruise missile rea…

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Arms Control Wonk

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The Washington Declaration 39:30

5M ago39:30

39:30

President Yoon of South Korea recently visited the United States to talk nukes and Don McLean with President Biden. Jeffrey and Aaron talk through what the Declaration actually covers, how much was material and how much was fluff, and the moonwalking capabilities of the D5 SLBM. Support us over at Patreon.com/acwpodcast!…

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Arms Control Wonk

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FINALLY. North Korea's Solid ICBM: The Hwasong-18 30:31

6M ago30:31

30:31

FINALLY. After almost a decade of hinting and teasing and parading fake empty canisters, North Korea has debuted its long-awated solid propellant ICBM. And the team have some questions about where the construction and testing sites were... Jeffrey, Scott, and Dave descend upon the CNS DC offices for a rare in-person podcast to commemorate the event…

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Arms Control Wonk

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Iran, the IAEA, and the Kingdom 31:52

7M ago31:52

31:52

The IAEA is doing a great job with the s**t we're handing them. A very jetlagged Jeffrey joins Aaron to talk about the IAEA and the very positive role that Director General Rafael Grossi has played in trying to hold together the nuclear situation with Iran. JCPOA-holdover cameras, discontinuity in footage, and a bunch of suddenly friendliness from …

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On Human Rights

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Richard Bennett - Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan. 26:05

7M ago26:05

26:05

Richard Bennett - Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan. by The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian LawBy The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

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Arms Control Wonk

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The Actual Demise of New START 40:52

7M ago40:52

40:52

New START has been in peril for years. The first episode of the pod was about the INF Treaty being in danger, and here we are, 8 years later, with almost no arms control treaties left. Maybe it is time to rename the pod Arms Race Wonk, because the next few years are going to be scary. Jeffrey and Aaron talk through the Era Without (Bilateral) Arms …

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Arms Control Wonk

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Another North Korean Missile Parade 35:22

8M ago35:22

35:22

Jeffrey, Aaron, and Scott say the unthinkable: we're a little tired of the parades. But we're glad the youthes are still ordering pizza and crowding around the computer to watch. North Korea paraded at least 15 ICBMs, including 4 that were clearly meant to look like solid-propellent ICBMs. We've been down this road before, they've played with our h…

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Arms Control Wonk

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One of Them is Wrong About That 35:46

9M ago35:46

35:46

Both plan on going first, but... President Yoon Suk-yeol of South Korea is being piled on for discussing South Korean pursuits of nuclear weapons (although what he said *exactly* was distorted a little). In the face of increasing pressure to respond to North Korea's nuclear posture, South Korea is realistically pursuing capabilities for rapid, prec…

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On Human Rights

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On Human Rights - Conflict Related Sexual Violence - Part 2 35:55

9M ago35:55

35:55

On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the 16 Days Campaign against SGBV, we met with Tyson Nicholas and Julia Dalman to discuss the issue of Conflict Related Sexual Violence (CRSV).Tyson Nicholas is currently the Staff Officer Gender, Peace and Security in the Royal Australian Navy. He has previo…

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On Human Rights

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On Human Rights - Conflict-related Sexual Violence - Part 1 34:21

9M ago34:21

34:21

On the occasion of this auspicious day, we met with Tyson Nicholas and Julia Dalman to discuss the issue of Conflict Related Sexual Violence (CRSV).Tyson Nicholas is currently the Staff Officer Gender, Peace and Security in the Royal Australian Navy. He has previously served as the Military Expert on Investigations of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse …

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Arms Control Wonk

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Detecting Missile Launches with Ionospheric Disturbances 37:10

10M ago37:10

37:10

Tyler Nighswander and Mike Nute have developed an incredible tool for detecting long-range missile and space launches by processing and visualizing ionospheric disturbances in GPS data. In one of the most fascinating and technically complex episodes of the ACW pod, Tyler and Mike join Jeffrey to talk about their wild new open-source intelligence to…

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How Sting Likes to Test 27:05

10M ago27:05

27:05

Jeeze that was a big missile. North Korea has tested another large ICBM, and this one was (another) doozy. Jeffrey and Aaron talk through modelling this missile, the potential theft of missile tech from Ukraine, Kim Jong Un's Bring Your Daughter to Work Day, and the incredible Missile Launch Detection tool that @tylerni7 and @michaelnute have spear…

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New New START or New Finish? 29:33

11M ago29:33

29:33

The Biden administration has been working to re-kindle New START talks with Russia, while working to deter Russian WMD use in Ukraine, in an era that increasingly appears to be about risk management instead of risk reduction. How do you restart heavily managed talks in an era of COVID restrictions? How do you do on-site inspections during a convent…

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Arms Control Wonk

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The Lake-Bed Missile 25:25

11M ago25:25

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Launch a missile get a pod Launch a missile get a pod Launch a missile get a pod Launch a missile get a pod Launch a missile get a pod Launch a missile get a pod Launch a missile get a pod Launch a missile get a pod Launch a missile get a pod Launch a missile get a pod Aaron and Jeffrey talk about North Korea's record-setting number of missile laun…

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Arms Control Wonk

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Another Crazy Train 26:48

11M ago26:48

26:48

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is giving people brain worms. Multiple terrible reports, citing oSiNt aNaLyStS, have recently been released and grossly overexaggerated the risk of nuclear weapons use around Ukraine. These reports, particularly about the "nuclear weapons convoy headed towards Ukraine," don't help anyone and just add noise to a chaot…

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The Janky Triad 20:07

12M ago20:07

20:07

Does North Korea have a triad? Perhaps a boostrapped, janky triad? How mature is their arsenal at this point? North Korea lobbed a Hwasong-12 over Japan after a week of smaller missile tests, and sparked a testy exchange of missile tests and aircraft scramblings. Jeffrey and Aaron talk about missile overflights, what it means to begrudgingly accept…

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Arms Control Wonk

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Stealing the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant 26:14

1y ago26:14

26:14

What the heck is going on with the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Planet? Aaron and Jeffrey walk through the safety situation, the open source assessments of what is going on, and what appears to be a Russian strategy to....steal a power plant? Links of Note: Russia Tries to Steal a Nuclear Power Plant, Cheryl Rofer Support us over at Patreon.com/acwpo…

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Rules for Testing a Nuke 31:15

1y ago31:15

31:15

Why isn't North Korea testing nukes? What are the signals and signs that precede a test? Jeffrey and Aaron talk testing indicators, the logistics of detonating a nuclear device in North Korea, and the proper use of the Chatham House Rule... The team talks about the impact of Michael Krepon on the field and on us personally. He will be greatly misse…

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