Austin, Vipin, and I suspended our unilateralist approach to choosing podcast topics for one recording session, instead taking on questions and comments that you listeners/readers sent to us. Thank you for being willing to engage, on pretty short notice, on a wide array of topics. We will definitely do this again, so please keep sending in your thoughts!

I’m not going to list every question we received, but they ran the gamut of nuclear policy topics. We discussed China’s military parade, Pakistan’s long-range missile program, counterforce and negotiating war termination, advice for new/early-career participants in the nuclear field, and reflected on “surprises” we experienced during our careers in government.

Intro/outro music licensed by Soundstripe: “The Iron Curtain” by Wicked Cinema.

Recording and edits through Riverside.fm.

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