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, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation R Scott Kemp, Nature John Lyons, ",” Wall Street Journal Zainab Fattah, ",” Bloomberg Barbara Starr and Ryan Browne, “,” CNN U.S. Africa Command, “,” AFRICOM Shawn Snow, “,” Military Times Aruna Viswanatha, ",” Wall Street Journal Adam Goldman, “,” New York Times Mike Ives, “,” New York Times Ellen Nakashima and Paul Sonne, ",” Washington Post Ian Brown, "?” War on the Rocks Thomas Wright, “,” Atlantic Susan B. Glasser, ",” New Yorker Neil Irwin, “?” New York Times Kai Ryssdal, “,” Marketplace Heather Long, “,” Washington Post Robbie Gramer, , Foreign Policy , Department of Defense ",’” Amnesty International Helene Cooper, “,” New York Times Sundar Pichai, “,” Google Kate Conger, “,” Gizmodo