On March 1st, Bombshell recorded a live show at the Carlucci National Security Symposium, hosted at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.

War on the Rocks members can listen to the Q&A from the event at the War Hall.

All right, welcome to bombshell.

I'm Erin Simpson.

I'm Warren Nielman.

And I'm Radha Angar.

And for those who are listening to this podcast later on,

we are live at the Carlucci National Security Symposium at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.

So thanks to Sanford School and to the Carlucci family for sponsoring this and bringing us down.

It's actually been kind of a fun afternoon already, and we've got more events ahead of us.

When we do kind of these live

shows, and we'll talk a little bit about the podcast and introduce ourselves here in just a second,

but when we do the live shows, we move off our kind of normal format. So we're not going to do

White House mayhem or keeping up foreign relations. We have kind of a broader set of questions

to kind of dig into, which is fun for us, too, because it takes us off the news

cycle and we don't have to, like, pay attention to what happened to Vietnam this week,

and it's all, it's a little bit easier. So, why don't we start with introductions? Rada, go first.

So I'm Rada Aangar. I have a PhD in economics, and I currently work in Silicon Valley,

but my backstory is that I used to be

a regular old-fashioned academic and then somehow decided to go on a boondoggle to Afghanistan,

where I stayed for many months and met Aaron Simpson. And from that went into the U.S.

government where I worked at the Department of Defense and then the National Security Council and then the Department of Energy before being very, very tired and going to work at Rand for a while.

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