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History Repeats And It Doesn’t | Focus On The Present Moment

History is the same thing happening over and over again, Marcus Aurelius said. There’s nothing new under the sun. And yet, like all things in philosophy, the opposite idea must also be held true at the same time. The Stoics would also agree with what Stanford professor Scott Sagan once said, “Thing…

Selling Your Business – Who Do You Need on Your Team: Part 3 – Certified Public Accountant

Transaction Talk welcomes you to the third episode of a four-part series that details what business owners need to know about selling their businesses. Your hosts Jennifer and Eric interview Scott Sagan, a CPA with over 30 years of experience in accounting, auditing, taxation, and more. Scott shar…

Nuclear Norms and International Security

Why do norms of non-proliferation and disarmament matter? And why do countries pursue nuclear weapons? Listen in, as LCNP Executive Director and host for NukeVerse, Deeps discusses this, and more with our first guest Professor Scott Sagan. Professor Sagan is the Co-Director of the Center for Intern…

The Doomsday Clock

From the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the authoritative guide to ensuring science and technology make life on Earth better, not worse Scott Sagan, comes in to talk about the Doomsday Clock which is is a symbol that represents the estimated likelihood of a human-made global catastrophe. All th…

A House of Dynamite (2025) w/ Scott Sagan | Ep. 54

Van and Lyle are joined by nuclear weapons and disarmament expert Scott Sagan to discuss A House of Dynamite, the 2025 political thriller that imagines nuclear catastrophe not as spectacle or obvious madness, but as an orderly sequence of decisions made under crushing time pressure. Structured as i…

A House of Dynamite (2025) w/ Scott Sagan | Ep. 278

A special holiday crossover with The Bang-Bang Podcast! Van Jackson and Lyle Rubin are joined by the preeminent nuclear scholar Scott Sagan to discuss A House of Dynamite, the 2025 political thriller that imagines nuclear catastrophe not as spectacle or obvious madness, but as an orderly sequence o…

Trialogue Live: The Expiration of New Start

The expiration of New Start on February 5 marks the end of over half a century of bilateral efforts to advance strategic arms control. On February 3, the Stimson Center and the Oppenheimer Project convened leading nuclear experts from the US and Russia to imagine what comes next. The American speak…

Weapons of Mass Destruction

The United States recently threatened military action against Syria in response to the Syrian government’s alleged use of chemical weapons. Similar threats have been made against states suspected of trying to develop nuclear arsenals such as North Korea and Iran. Yet the U.S., the U.K., France, Rus…

ValuJet 592 crashed in 1996 with 110 people aboard. We reconstruct the layered failure and what Perrow's normal accident theory says about why it happened.

In May 1996, ValuJet Flight 592 crashed into the Florida Everglades six minutes after takeoff from Miami, killing all 110 people on board. Investigators traced the fire to chemical oxygen generators loaded into the forward cargo hold without safety caps on their firing pins. What they could not tra…

Iran, Nukes and the Illusion of Safety | Nuclear Weapons Expert Scott Sagan

The Table is joined by Professor Scott Sagan - leading scholar of nuclear security and international relations. Sagan explains that the biggest risk of Iran going nuclear is being missed. It's the threat of accidental explosion and even full-out nuclear war in the Middle East. In his view, this …