HeyJaredJon Wolfsthal
Former senior White House official, member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist board that sets the Doomsday Clock, and 40+ year veteran of global security and geopolitics. US nuclear policy fellow, Pax Sapiens.
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Jack Mendelsohn (opens the original)
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I arrived in Washington in 1988. In 1991, I got my first great job (I have had several great jobs) working at the Arms Control Association, then led by Spurgeon Keeny, Jr. I had no idea at the time how lucky I was to land there at that time. I worked with some of the giants of the nuclear age (Bundy, McNamara, Panofsky, Bunn, Resor, Garwin), and the staff included some of the smartest and most capable people our generation. Many of my colleagues have on to have real impact in the world. I walked
And We’re Off - Sub Movie Match Up #1 (opens the original)
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I will keep this post short and sweet. Das Boot is one of the best, most realistic submarine movies ever made. It conveys the terror, claustrophobia, conditions and danger of working, living and fighting underwater as well as any other movie ever made. It also tells a story of camaraderie, desperation and the struggles of a group of men in the war from a Nazi Navy perspective that is human, without making you root for the Nazis. No small feat. This movie does a lot - it is a great submarine movi
The Matchups are Set - Sub vs Sub (opens the original)
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By now, it should be clear that I am irrationally excited that this tournament of submarine movies is finally coming together. I hope those of you following along have spent some time thinking about the factors that should determine which movies win each matchup.Full disclosure: I used Copilot to produce the tournament bracket. Whether it generated a truly random set of matchups, or whether Microsoft harbors some internal bias toward certain submarine movies, is beyond the scope of this exercise
Tournament Time - Submarines Movies (opens the original)
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The U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Agreement: Questions Congress Should Be Asking (opens the original)
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