Iran’s Once in a Lifetime Moment
by April 17, 2024 | No Comments
|And you may find yourself not complying with the IAEA And you may find yourself in a war in another part of the world And you may find yourself making a metaphor about an automobile And you may find yourself enriching your uranium stocks, and building reactors And you may ask yourself “Well, how did I …
Russian Nuclear Doctrine in the Financial Times 2: A Conversation with William Alberque
by April 10, 2024 | No Comments
|William Alberque joins Jeffrey for a friendly and deep debate about the Russian Navy nuclear documents leaked to FT, covered in our previous episode. This is a fascinating discussion not only on the documents themselves, but what they imply for Russia’s view of its own territorial integrity, what it needs to convince its soldiers to …
Russian Nuclear Doctrine in the Financial Times
by March 10, 2024 | No Comments
|Max Seddon and Chris Cook with the Financial Times have written an excellent piece on leaked Russian Naval documents that FT saw, focused on thresholds for Russian nuclear use, especially in a war scenario with China. Jeffrey and Aaron go through what the documents reveal and debate if they’re generally consistant with what is understood …
Jeffrey Visits the Test Site
by February 19, 2024 | No Comments
|Road trip to Vegas. As part of an NGO transparency visit, NNSA opened up the Nevada Test Site to a group of international nuclear weapons experts, including one Dr. Jeffrey Lewis. Jeffrey goes through what he saw: P Tunnel, The BEEF, and the crown jewel, U1a. This was an NNSA exercise in transparency, aimed at …
Russia Buys North Korean Missiles
by ACW Podcast | January 16, 2024
North Korea's ELWR Now Appears Operating
by Jeffrey Lewis | December 21, 2023
North Korea's New Satellite
by ACW Podcast | November 27, 2023
The Reason We're all Still Here
by ACW Podcast | October 14, 2023
Shenanigans in Novaya Zemlya
by ACW Podcast | October 11, 2023
Nuclear Test Sites Are Too Damn Busy
by Jeffrey Lewis | September 23, 2023
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Founded in 2004 by Jeffrey Lewis, Arms Control Wonk was the first blog on arms control, disarmament and nonproliferation. It has since been a home to everything that is "too wonky or obscene" for publication about nuclear weapons. The site now features thirty-plus contributors with an archive of over three thousand articles.
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And you may find yourself not complying with the IAEA
And you may find yourself in a war in another part of the world
And you may find yourself making a metaphor about an automobile
And you may find yourself enriching your uranium stocks, and building reactors
And you may ask yourself “Well, how did I get here?”
Letting the days go by, politics will hold you down
Letting the days go by, heavy water underground
Into Fordow again, maybe to Isfahan
Once in a lifetime, realignment all around
Same as it ever was, Same as it ever was
Jeffrey and Aaron go through the current state of play in Iranian politics (just prior to its massive missile strike on Israel), particularly around the nuclear program and what the bomb genuinely means for security and Iranian internal politics, and review how we got here over the past 20 years of Arms Control Wonkery.
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