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Thomas (Thom) Mason is the President and CEO of Triad National Security, LLC (Triad) and serves as the Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory . Most recently he was the Senior Vice President for Global Laboratory Operations at Battelle where he had responsibility for governance and strategy across the six National Laboratories that Battelle manages or co-manages. Prior to joining Battelle, Tho...

Christopher Stone is a senior fellow for space deterrence studies at the National Institute for Deterrence Studies think tank. He previously served as special assistant to the deputy assistant secretary of defense for space policy. EPISODE NOTES: Follow NucleCast on Twitter at @NucleCast Email comments and story suggestions to NucleCast@anwadeter.org Subscribe to NucleCast podcast Rate the show

With nearly 53 years living and working in Oak Ridge, TN , Ray Smith has developed an extensive understanding and appreciation of the heritage of Oak Ridge’s history, especially the Manhattan Project era and resulting technological advances during ensuing years. For the last 10 years of his 47-year career with the Y-12 National Security Complex , he served as the official Y-12 Historian. Ray now s...

Dr. John Swegle works as an independent consultant through the National Strategic Research Institute at the University of Nebraska on issues related to the effects of nuclear weapons and proliferation on US national security. Immediately prior to that, he was a Senior Advisory Scientist at the Savannah River National Laboratory in Aiken, South Carolina. He began his career at Sandia National Labor...

With nearly 53 years living and working in Oak Ridge, TN , Ray has developed an extensive understanding and appreciation of the heritage of Oak Ridge’s history, especially the Manhattan Project era and resulting technological advances during ensuing years. For the last 10 years of his 47-year career with the Y-12 National Security Complex , he served as the official Y-12 Historian. Ray now serves...

Dr. Matthew Kroenig is Vice President and Senior Director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and the Council’s Director of Studies. In these roles, he manages the Scowcroft Center’s bipartisan team of more than thirty resident staff and oversees the Council’s extensive network of nonresident fellows. His own research focuses on US national security strategy, strat...

Lieutenant General In-Bum Chun (ROK, Ret) served his country with both honour and integrity for nearly four decades. Chun retired in 2016 after distinguished service in the South Korean Army . During his military career which started in 1978 at the Korea Military Academy he ascended to positions of leadership that included, the Chief of the Election Support Branch, Civil Military Affairs/Strategic...

This is the first episode in ANWA Deterrence Center's Legacy Series where we look back at the Manhattan Project and the evolution over 80 years of the U.S. strategic nuclear deterrent. Darwin Morgan retired as Director, Office of Public Affairs, Nevada Field Office, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) In March 2021. In retirement he serves as the President of the Nevada Test Site Histo...

Colonel Glen R. Shilland assumed the duties of United States Air Attaché to the Republic of Korea in 2019. Colonel Shilland entered the Air Force as a Distinguished Graduate of Officer Training School . In his first assignment as a satellite operations officer at Colorado Springs, Colorado, he performed command and control for surveillance, weather, and navigation spacecraft. He became a B-52H nav...

Dr. Wallace T. (Wally) Clark III retired as a civilian employee of the United States Air Force in November2020. Currently, he is a Senior Fellow at the National Institute for Deterrence Studies and via Banda GroupInternational , he a Senior Technical Adviser on Nuclear Explosive Safety to the NNSA . Among Dr. Clark’s numerous positions in his 40+-year career are: ultra-high vacuum scientist at the...

David Schild is Executive Director of the Printed Circuit Board Association of America . An established leader and trusted advocate, he has over 20 years of experience managing political involvement, corporate public relations and public policy efforts for the aerospace and defense industry. EPISODE NOTES: Follow NucleCast on Twitter at @NucleCast Email comments and story suggestions to NucleCast@...

Raphael "Rafi" Cohen is the director of the Strategy and Doctrine Program of RAND Project AIR FORCE , and a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation . He works on a broad range of defense and foreign policy issues, including defense strategy and force planning, Middle East and European security and civil-military relations. Cohen previously held research fellowships at the Brookings Inst...

Brian Green is a non-resident Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies Missile Defense Project . Prior to his current position, he was the founder and principal at Impact Strategies , a national security consulting firm, and served as Executive Director of Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Washington Operations Office , with planning and execution responsibilities for the company’...

Carl Rhodes Ph. D. is the founder of Robust Policy , a Canberra-based business that provides evidence-based analysis on defense topics. Carl worked at RAND Corporation from 1997-2021, including four years as director of RAND Australia . Prior to moving to Australia, Carl spent twenty years as a researcher and manager in RAND’s Project AIR FORCE . His research portfolio has covered topics including...

Wendy Baca started her career in 1987 with the Department of Energy in what was then known as the Albuquerque Operations Office . She was hired to fill the W87-1 Small Inter-continental Ballistic Missile (SICBM) Program Engineer position where one of her first tasks was to issue the Phase 3, Development Engineering, authorization to the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex . Although the program was cancel...

Brad is an accomplished senior leader who enjoys a reputation for original thinking and strategic acumen coupled with an affirmative leadership approach. He holds a doctorate from Vanderbilt University and is a graduate of the National War College . Most recently Brad served as the Army’s longest-tenured Senior Strategist and Chief of Plans , Brad exercised wide-ranging and global responsibilities...

Juan Vitali is the Assistant Director Nuclear Energy Innovation at the Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House. Previously, he was the Army’s Nuclear Engineer and Chief of the Nuclear Power Branch where he led a team of engineers to shape conditions for the adoption of nuclear power by the Army. He was the chief concept architect for the development of mobile nuclear power plant f...

Major Frank W. Perry, Jr. is the Chief, Helicopter Operations Division , Twentieth Air Force . In this position Major Perry advises the Commander, Twentieth Air Force on operational and administrative issues for the Air Force’s sole Helicopter Group . He leads planning, coordination, and Operational Plan support for three operational helicopter squadrons, integrating USSTRATCOM and USNORTHCOM miss...

The ANWA Deterrence Center wishes you a safe and happy 4th of July. EPISODE NOTES: Follow NucleCast on Twitter at @NucleCast Email comments and guest nominations to NucleCast@anwadeter.org Subscribe to NucleCast podcast Rate the show on Apple Podcasts

Thomas Karako is a senior fellow with the International Security Program and the director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) , where he arrived in 2014. His research focuses on national security, missile defense, nuclear deterrence, and public law. In 2010–2011, he was an American Political Science Association congressional fellow, working w...

Ambassador Eric S. Edelman is Counselor at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. He retired as a career minister from the U.S. Foreign Service on May 1, 2009. He has served in senior positions at the Departments of State and Defense as well as the White House , where he led organizations providing analysis, strategy, policy development, security services, trade advocacy, public outre...

David Campbell is the Executive Vice President, EnergySolutions and previously served as the Associate Administrator, Office of Congressional, Intergovernmental & Public Affairs at the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). As the Executive Vice President at EnergySolutions , Mr. Campbell is responsible for all aspects of business development and implementing the company’s growt...

Dr. Carl Rehberg is a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Carl was founder and director of the Headquarters Air Force Asia-Pacific Cell, which played a pivotal role in the development of Air Force strategy, force development, planning, analysis and warfighting concepts supporting initiatives related to Asia-Pacific and the DoD Third Offset Strategy . C...

Dr. Lani Kass is Strategic Advisor for Cyber Reliant Corporation , focused on advancing Cyber Reliant’s National Security & Justice presence and stature in the U.S. national security sector, as well as enhancing and expanding key client and industry relationships. From December 2011 to January 2021, Dr. Kass served the CEO and Executive Chairman of the Board at CACI , as the Senior Vice Presid...

Michael R. Shoults, a member of the Senior Executive Service , is the Acting Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration, Headquarters U.S. Air Force , the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. Mr. Shoults assists in the oversight of the Air Force’s Nuclear Deterrence Operations, Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction efforts, Nuclear Command Control and Communication portfolio...