How the Kurds Defeated ISIS and Lost a Nation In the Same Week
The Kurds live in Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq but have no country to call their own. When they decided to create one for themselves inside Iraq, it didn’t go well.After Iraq's Kurds held an independ...
23 Okt 201748min
Death Math: Here’s How Many People Would Die in a Nuclear War
Tensions between North Korea and the United States are at a fever pitch. The DPRK’s nukes are scary, but once the first missile flies there’s no way to know who might join the fight and how it might e...
16 Okt 201739min
How the Military Is (Quietly) Defying Trump by Battling Climate Change
Barack Obama ordered the U.S. military to directly prepare for climate change. Donald Trump’s White House reversed that policy.So what’s a general to do?Tara Copp, Pentagon bureau chief for Military T...
9 Okt 201725min
The CIA’s Super-Secret Submarine Scooper
Sometimes the only way a spy agency can hide a secret is under the brightest of spotlights. This week, we talk with author Josh Dean about how the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology works and...
2 Okt 201737min
Debunking Two Persistent Myths of the War in Afghanistan
On August 6, 2011, an American Chinook helicopter named Extortion 17 carried 38 people—including 15 members of SEAL Team Six—to an area 40 miles southwest of Kabul. As the helicopter made its final de...
27 Sep 201725min
How Iran Outsourced Regional War to the Party of God
The Party of God, Hezbollah, is reaching out far beyond its Lebanese roots as they work with Iran to spread their joint vision of holy war. Working with money and equipment from Iran, the Shi’ite mili...
18 Sep 201727min
What Game of Thrones Teaches Us About Nuclear War
From The Day After to Threads, fiction has long reflected our nuclear fears. Today, Daenerys Targaryen’s flying dragons stand in for B-52 bombers armed with thermonuclear bombs and the ashen corpses o...
11 Sep 201737min
The Man Putin Hates For Shooting Down Fake News
The impunity of some of the world’s most frightening men is under threat from people stereotyped as geeks in basements around the world. In the 21st century, well-informed and observant social media a...
8 Sep 201735min
