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This week on Bombshell we talk with Mieke Eoyang about, well, basically everything. We take a rapid fire tour of political dramas in Zimbabwe, Germany, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon. Stop for a bit to bask in the crazy sunshine of Turkish plots and then return to the United States just to ask: Exactly how many troops do we have overseas? Then just for kicks, we debate what a lawful order for a nuclear first strike\\xa0would look like. We wrap up with Mieke\'s Twitter conversation with John Cusack and Erin\'s dream for a Master and Commander sequel.

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Episode Reading

• Ben Freeman and Mieke Eoyang, "Public Opinion and Narrowing the Security Gap in 2016,"\\xa0Third Way
• Sisonke Msimang, "The Fall of Africa\'s Most Hated First Lady,"\\xa0New York Times
• Von Marcus Gatzke and Marlies Uken, "Relax, Germany Is Not Facing a State Crisis,"\\xa0Zeit Online
• Andreas Rinke and Madeline Chambers,\\xa0"Merkel\'s CDU agrees to pursue grand coalition in Germany,"\\xa0Reuters
• Marwa Eltagouri, "What we\'ve learned about the North Korean soldier whose daring escape was caught on video,"\\xa0Washington Post
• Erin Cunningham and Louisa Loveluck, "Hezbollah, on the rise in Lebanon, fends off Saudi Arabia,"\\xa0Washington Post
• Thomas L. Friedman, "Saudi Arabia\'s Arab Spring, at Last,"\\xa0New York Times
• Borzou Daragahi, "Saudi Arabia Has Shaken Up The Middle East - This Is How,"\\xa0BuzzFeed News
• Reuters Staff, "Turkey has completed purchase of Russian missile defense: defense minister,"\\xa0Reuters
• Alex Horton, "The Pentagon struggles to provide accurate numbers for deployed troops,"\\xa0Washington Post
• Luis Martinez, "Thousands more US military service members in Iraq and Syria than believed,"\\xa0ABC News
• Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal, "The Uncounted,"\\xa0New York Times Magazine
• Michael Barbaro, "Targeting ISIS, and Killing Civilians,"\\xa0New York Times, \'The Daily\'
• Karoun Demirjian, "Trump\'s nuclear authority divides senators alarmed by his \'volatile\' behavior,"\\xa0Washington Post
• Stewart Baker, Jim Lewis, and Brian Egan, "Interview with Mieke Eoyang and Jamil Jaffer,"\\xa0Steptoe, The Cyberlaw Podcast
• Chris Evangelista, "\'Master and Commander\' Sequel Still A Possibility, Says Russell Crowe,"\\xa0Slash Film
• Disney-Pixar, "Incredibles 2 Official Teaser Trailer,"\\xa0Disney-Pixar