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Radha, Loren, and Erin invite Alex Bell to preview the Singapore Trump-Kim summit, explaining that while there\\u2019s more than staring into one another\\u2019s 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\\u2019ve 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\\u2019s embrace of State bureaucracy may be hamstrung.\\xa0 Erin kicks off a new segment, the Soapbox, on Google\\u2019s rejection of military AI work and what that means for future advances in military technologies.\\xa0 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\\u2019s title and general approach to life go to Jeffrey Lewis.

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• Alexandra Bell and\\xa0James McKeon,\\xa0Three strikes means Bolton should be out,\\xa0Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• The Once and Future Framework, The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
• R Scott Kemp,\\xa0North Korean disarmament: build technology and trust,\\xa0Nature
• John Lyons, "From \\u2018Punk Kid\\u2019 to 21st Century Tyrant: Kim Jong Un Seizes His Moment,\\u201d\\xa0Wall Street Journal
• Zainab Fattah, "Saudis to Host Jordan-Support Meeting After Tax Bill Protests,\\u201d\\xa0Bloomberg
• Barbara Starr and Ryan Browne, \\u201cUS service member killed in Somalia,\\u201d\\xa0CNN
• U.S. Africa Command,\\xa0\\u201cU.S. Statement on Situation in Somalia,\\u201d\\xa0AFRICOM
• Shawn Snow, \\u201cOne US special operations member killed, several wounded in attack in Somalia,\\u201d\\xa0Military Times
• Aruna Viswanatha, "Ex-CIA Officer\\u2019s Case Highlights Fears About Reach of Chinese Spying,\\u201d\\xa0Wall Street Journal
• Adam Goldman, \\u201cEx-C.I.A. Officer Is Convicted of Spying for China,\\u201d\\xa0New York Times
• Mike Ives, \\u201cU.S. Army Veteran Tried to Spy for China, Officials Say,\\u201d\\xa0New York Times
• Ellen Nakashima and Paul Sonne, "China hacked a Navy contractor and secured a trove of highly sensitive data on submarine warfare,\\u201d\\xa0Washington Post
• Ian Brown, "Imagining\\xa0a Cyber Surprise: How Might China Use Stolen OPM Records to Target Trust?\\u201d\\xa0War on the Rocks
• Thomas Wright,\\xa0\\u201cTrump Is Choosing Eastern Europe,\\u201d\\xa0Atlantic
• Susan B. Glasser, "Under Trump, \\u201cAmerica First\\u201d Really Is Turning Out to Be America Alone,\\u201d\\xa0New Yorker
• Neil Irwin, \\u201cWhat Is the Trade Deficit?\\u201d\\xa0New York Times
• Kai Ryssdal, \\u201cHow U.S. trade policy has changed over 30 years,\\u201d\\xa0Marketplace
• Heather Long, \\u201cThere are \\u2018nuggets of truth\\u2019 to what Trump says about trade,\\u201d\\xa0Washington Post
• Robbie Gramer,\\xa0Pompeo\\u2019s Pledge to Lift Hiring Freeze at State Department Hits Big Snag,\\xa0Foreign Policy\\xa0
• Casualty Records,\\xa0Department of Defense
• "Syria: Raqqa in ruins and civilians devastated after US-led \\u2018war of annihilation,\\u2019\\u201d\\xa0Amnesty International
• Helene Cooper, \\u201cU.S. Strikes Killed Nearly 500 Civilians in 2017, Pentagon Says,\\u201d\\xa0New York Times
• Sundar Pichai, \\u201cAI at Google: our principles,\\u201d Google
• Kate Conger,\\xa0\\u201cGoogle Backtracks, Says Its AI Will Not Be Used for Weapons or Surveillance,\\u201d\\xa0Gizmodo

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