The Goat Rodeos

Bombshell

News, Politics, Military, War, History

4.8 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Radha, Loren, and Erin invite Alex Bell to preview the Singapore Trump-Kim summit, explaining that while there’s more than staring into one another’s eyes for arms control, chemistry is a good start. When we recorded, the G7 had wrapped but not yet crashed and burned into a playground taunt with Canada, so Radha gives a good lesson on tariffs instead of assessing border skirmishes along the Great Lakes. If you’ve been distracted you may have not noticed the absurd amount of Chinese espionage activity as the OPM hacks bear fruit. The show recommends everyone keep an eye on the Pompeo-Bolton tea leaves and how Pompeo’s embrace of State bureaucracy may be hamstrung. Erin kicks off a new segment, the Soapbox, on Google’s rejection of military AI work and what that means for future advances in military technologies. Conflicting Civilian casualty reporting, protests in Jordan, and SOF in Somalia are somehow the lesser included events in the crazy three ring goat rodeo of a week. Credit for this week’s title and general approach to life go to Jeffrey Lewis.

Alexandra Bell and James McKeon, Three strikes means Bolton should be out, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The Once and Future Framework, The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
R Scott Kemp, North Korean disarmament: build technology and trust, Nature
John Lyons, "From ‘Punk Kid’ to 21st Century Tyrant: Kim Jong Un Seizes His Moment,” Wall Street Journal
Zainab Fattah, "Saudis to Host Jordan-Support Meeting After Tax Bill Protests,” Bloomberg
Barbara Starr and Ryan Browne, “US service member killed in Somalia,” CNN
U.S. Africa Command, “U.S. Statement on Situation in Somalia,” AFRICOM
Shawn Snow, “One US special operations member killed, several wounded in attack in Somalia,” Military Times
Aruna Viswanatha, "Ex-CIA Officer’s Case Highlights Fears About Reach of Chinese Spying,” Wall Street Journal
Adam Goldman, “Ex-C.I.A. Officer Is Convicted of Spying for China,” New York Times
Mike Ives, “U.S. Army Veteran Tried to Spy for China, Officials Say,” New York Times
Ellen Nakashima and Paul Sonne, "China hacked a Navy contractor and secured a trove of highly sensitive data on submarine warfare,” Washington Post
Ian Brown, "Imagining a Cyber Surprise: How Might China Use Stolen OPM Records to Target Trust?” War on the Rocks
Thomas Wright, “Trump Is Choosing Eastern Europe,” Atlantic
Susan B. Glasser, "Under Trump, “America First” Really Is Turning Out to Be America Alone,” New Yorker
Neil Irwin, “What Is the Trade Deficit?” New York Times
Kai Ryssdal, “How U.S. trade policy has changed over 30 years,” Marketplace
Heather Long, “There are ‘nuggets of truth’ to what Trump says about trade,” Washington Post
Robbie Gramer, Pompeo’s Pledge to Lift Hiring Freeze at State Department Hits Big Snag, Foreign Policy
Casualty Records, Department of Defense
"Syria: Raqqa in ruins and civilians devastated after US-led ‘war of annihilation,’” Amnesty International
Helene Cooper, “U.S. Strikes Killed Nearly 500 Civilians in 2017, Pentagon Says,” New York Times
Sundar Pichai, “AI at Google: our principles,” Google
Kate Conger, “Google Backtracks, Says Its AI Will Not Be Used for Weapons or Surveillance,” Gizmodo

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson. I'm Lauren D. Young-Scholman. And I'm Radhaeingar.
0:15.3	And we have a very special guest with us today to do a preview of everybody's favorite. We decided it was a
0:22.2	telenovela or some sort of sitcom or how are we describing the North Korea summit?
0:28.6	Well, I think this is the moment where they really test the relationship and see if this is
0:33.2	going to be fruitful in the long term. I think telenovel is pretty good. It's a new rom-com.
0:37.8	And I guess we should say, you know, I could ask us what we were drinking, but we're recording
0:41.5	on Saturday morning. We're not drinking a whole lot, actually. I have a delicious
0:46.4	LeCroix. I myself am drinking coffee, but I imagine that after we finish recording, we'll all
0:52.6	need a good good stiff drink.
0:59.6	Yeah, I'm also drinking, drinking LaC. here. So it's a very sober edition of bombshell.
1:05.5	On the other hand, it's Pride Weekend here in Washington, D.C. So I plan on having at least 39 mimoses later today as I celebrate all the way to the parade. Well, we are joined by a guest this week,
1:13.2	who's going to tell us exactly what is going to happen on at the summit this week and then exactly
1:18.1	what it will happen afterward, unless, of course, you know, it all goes to hell, which it could easily
1:22.1	do so. Alex Bell is the senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.
1:28.3	She previously served in the State Department in the Undersecretary's Office for Arms Control and International Security,
1:35.2	and we are delighted to have her here today. She has just more or less gotten off the plane from
1:39.1	Singapore in the Shangri-La dialogue, so she'll be able to tell us exactly how they're planning
1:43.3	to receive their guests in the summit this week. But first, we have the very important bombshell
1:49.5	questions, which I know that you've prepped for extensively. What is your entrance music?
1:55.8	First, thanks for having me. I'm glad to be on the show. I, the music thing is hard. I'm definitely one of those people
2:01.9	that's always listening to music when I'm commuting, working out all of that. So I, uh, I thought
2:08.0	about the context in which I would be entering somewhere. And, uh, my first thought was a killing
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