Episode 370: Not Quite James Bond

Today Jess, Les, Morgan, and Matt unpack the expiration of New START, the 2010 arms control treaty long described as the last remaining guardrail on U.S. and Russian nuclear forces. Washington and Moscow together hold roughly 85% of the world’s nuclear weapons but Russia has prov ...  Show more

Today, Morgan, Jamil, Les, and Andy survey a busy week in the Western Hemisphere, as the Trump administration sharpens its focus closer to home. President Gustavo Petro’s visit to the White House signaled a thaw in U.S.–Colombia relations, with renewed counternarcotics cooperatio ...  Show more

In this episode of The President's Daily Brief: We delve into the escalating verbal conflict as Moscow accuses Paris of gearing up to deploy 2,000 troops to Ukraine. SpaceX's latest initiative, a secretive pact to develop a network of spy satellites for the U.S. Government, is ...  Show more

With a major war raging in Europe, a seemingly more expansionist Trump in the Whitehouse, and China’s long held desire to invade Taiwan, is Britain prepared militarily?     It’s hard to tell. The current Labour government is still refusing to set out in detail its plans for Defen ...  Show more

One of the most important groups of advisers around Donald Trump are the 'restrainers'. They want to radically reduce America’s commitments to global security alliances. Gideon talks to Dan Caldwell, a leading restrainer and military veteran who believes the Iraq war was a 'mo ...

Two weeks after 52 people were murdered on London’s transport network, terrorists tried to strike again. How did the UK's domestic security services leverage bulk phone record collection to track down the fleeing bombers? And what was the significance of a gym membership card and ...  Show more