The Reason We’re All Still Here
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The Reason We’re All Still Here
Far too often, governments behave like toddlers. They’re fickle. They don’t like to share. And good luck getting them to pay attention to any problem that isn’t directly in front of them. They like to push each other to the brink, and often do. But when they don’t, it’s usually because other people...
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The United States Library of Congress selected Dr. Strangelove as one of the first 25 films in the National Film Registry. As we approach the 60th ann...
Signs for the Future
Some questions fall far outside the scope of what governments are designed to answer. How will we explain ourselves to extraterrestrials? What can we...
An Illegal Floating City
Fishermen dying mysteriously off the coast of Japan. Entire populations of sea animals disappearing. Despite decades of work by the international comm...
The Leak from Compound 19
In February 2020, an elite group of biosecurity experts, worried about the threat of pandemics, plays a bizarrely prescient role-playing game. They ru...
Ground Control to Space Junk
There are no international laws against littering in space, which is a shame, because individual governments love to blow things up in low-Earth orbit...
Windmills in a North Korean Cabbage Patch
An arms-control advocate accepts an invitation to the dacha of a hard-partying North Korean power broker. There, through a haze of smoke and propagand...
Skinny-Dipping in the USSR
As the Cold War draws to a close, a group of American scientists hatches a plan to board a Soviet warship with a nuclear weapons detector to prove to...
You’re Welcome (A Prologue)
If you’re reading this, and you’re not in some sort of irradiated, post-apocalyptic hellscape… well, you can thank our host Jeffrey Lewis. He studies...
Introducing: The Reason We’re All Still Here
With the Iran nuclear deal dead as a doorknob, Jeffrey Lewis set out to make a new podcast, one that tells stories of scientists, journalists and mayb...
Episode 5: The Worst Case Scenario (Almost)
The Deal tells the story of the Iran nuclear deal: how it came together, how it fell apart, and what that means for the rest of us. Hosted by Dr. Jeff...
Episode 4: Stuxnet
The Deal tells the story of the Iran nuclear deal: how it came together, how it fell apart, and what that means for the rest of us. Hosted by Dr. Jeff...
Episode 3: Safeguards
If we held inspections and action-movie style violence to the same standard, we’d see that inspections do way more to stop the spread of nuclear weap...
Episode 2: Nuclear Rx
The Deal tells the story of the Iran nuclear deal: how it came together, how it fell apart, and what that means for the rest of us. Hosted by Dr. Jeff...
Episode 1: What Is Past Is Prologue
The Deal tells the story of the Iran nuclear deal: how it came together, how it fell apart, and what that means for the rest of us. Hosted by Dr. Jeff...
Episode 5: The Power to Hurt
It could happen again.
Content warning: This episode refers to Islamophobic sentiments in the American public.
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Episode 4: The Unraveling
In 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes the claim that “Iran lied,” and things quickly begin to fall apart.
The Deal tells the...
Episode 3: The Scientists
American Secretary of Energy Dr. Ernie Moniz and Dr. Ali Salehi, director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, are brought to the world’s highes...
Episode 2: The Backchannel
An international crisis is a little like a relay race. In 2011, the baton passes into the hands of diplomats like American ambassador Wendy Sherman, w...
Episode 1: The Revelation
In 2002, Corey Hinderstein, a young research analyst, follows a hunch after a routine press conference in Washington, D.C. The results of her scavenge...
The Deal: Coming Soon
The Deal tells the story of the Iran nuclear deal: how it came together, how it fell apart, and what that means for the rest of us. Hosted by Dr. Jeff...