Here’s a typical American nuclear weapon today. This is the bomb that destroyed Nagasaki. This bb is the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. In the 1980’s there was this popular way of explaining just how much destructive potential existed in the world’s nuclear arsenals. Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Podcasts Produced by Gilded Audio and the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. He is the founder of, a leading resource on disarmament, arms control and nonproliferation issues. Previously, he served as Director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at the New America Foundation and Executive Director of the Managing the Atom Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Jeffrey Lewis, a professor and scholar at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies on the Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies faculty. This podcast tells the stories about the people holding us back from the brink. This season, we’ll hear from scientists, analysts, and idealists who have gone to crazy lengths just for a shot at making peace and building understanding From smoke-filled rooms in North Korea to secret labs in the Soviet Union… to the lawless seas, and even to the depths of outer space (or, at least, the conference rooms where they talk about the depths of outer space). Those people and the work they do, they’re the reason we’re all still here. People who strive for collaboration and understanding, and sometimes end up finding it in unlikely places. Private citizens who step up and play peacemaker when their governments won’t or can’t. But when they don’t, it’s usually because other people enter the proverbial room. They like to push each other to the brink, and often do. And good luck getting them to pay attention to any problem that isn’t directly in front of them. Far too often, governments behave like toddlers.
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