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Rational Security

The “Skyfall” Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Susan and Shane are away, so Ben and Tamara are joined by special guests Scott Anderson and Quinta Jurecic. A Russian missile test accident kills scientists and raises questions. Hong Kong and Kashmir are both in crisis, and the United States shrugs. And the House of Representatives seems to have slouched towards impeachment.

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0:00.0

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0:11.0

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0:15.0

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0:20.0

So guys, how many international incidents can you think of in history that have actually been

0:28.2

named after events from Bond Films?

0:31.3

Or after Bond Films themselves. I mean Bond films have always been

0:36.6

creatures of their time but they've always taken reality like a step

0:41.1

beyond I think this past week is a little too close to home.

0:45.0

Can anybody think of like an international incident or a national security incident that's other than this week that's actually named for a Bond film?

0:53.0

Not off the top of my head, but I will say it's very appropriate that in 2019 life is imitating art.

0:59.0

I think that's right. And we have a number of candidates for Bond villains at least circulating these

1:03.6

days so I'm sure this isn't the first other than Steve Mination's wife a number

1:09.3

of candidates circulating these days.

1:11.1

Yeah but weird is Daniel Craig when you need him.

1:16.0

Hello and welcome to rational security, the Skyfall Edition.

1:26.0

I'm Benjamin Wittis doing my best Shane Harris impersonation because Shane is on vacation.

1:32.0

Susan is also on vacation. Susan is also on vacation, so I'm joined here in the Jungle Studio by

1:38.0

Tamara Wittis, Quinta Jurassic, and Scott Anderson.

1:43.1

And hi guys.

1:44.8

Hey.

1:45.3

Hello.

1:46.5

So we've got a bunch of stuff on the show today.

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