Space Junk, Nuclear Waste, AI Nukes and the Reason We’re All Still Here

<p>There’s a lot of reasons to be worried about the future. Climate change, nuclear weapons, space junk, and World War III are all threats both present and long-term. But, every day, people are trying to make the world a better place. It lands them in weird situations like skinny dripping with Soviet officers at the height of the Cold War or getting drunk with engineers in North Korea.</p><br><p>This week on Cyber, Dr. Jeffrey Lewis stops by to tell us all about the brave men and women who took a chance, reached out, and helped prevent the world from falling into oblivion. Lewis is a professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies on the Nonproliferation and Terrorism Faculty. His new podcast, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-reason-were-all-still-here/id1527094379" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Reason We’re All Still Here</a>, explores the apocalypse with an air of hope for the future.</p><br><p>Go here to check out <a href="https://www.middlebury.edu/deal-podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>The Reason We’re All Still Here</strong></a></p><br><p><strong>We’re recording CYBER live on</strong><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/vice" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> Twitch</strong></a><strong>. Watch live during the week.</strong><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/vice" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> Follow us</strong></a><strong> there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show.&nbsp;</strong></p><br><p><strong>Subscribe to</strong><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cyber/id1441708044?mt=2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> CYBER on Apple Podcasts</strong></a><strong> or wherever you listen to your podcasts.</strong></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more inform