In the Room with Peter Bergen

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  The Future of In the Room 04.03.2025 1мин

  Having published over 80 episodes, In the Room is taking a hiatus, and a chance to think about what other topics and formats we might pursue. Stay tuned!....
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  Is A New Nuclear Arms Race Inevitable? 28.01.2025 46мин

  Very quietly, and with little public discussion, the U.S. military has undertaken a $1.5 trillion project to modernize America’s nuclear triad – the planes, submarines and missiles that deliver nuclear weapons.
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  How the CIA got into the Venture Capital Game 21.01.2025 23мин

  With the rise of technology in the late 1990s, a new national security threat quickly emerged. And the U.S. government had to find a way to protect itself — and its secrets — from foreign adversaries and cybercriminals.
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  What Can You Expect From President Trump’s Foreign Policy? 14.01.2025 29мин

  Financial Times columnist Ed Luce says President Donald Trump might love trade wars, but he’d rather not engage in military ones.
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  Trump Wants a Loyal FBI and Justice Department. Here’s How He Plans to Get it. 07.01.2025 31мин

  In his first term, Donald Trump did more to politicize top U.S. law enforcement institutions than any U.S. President, according to journalist David Rohde.
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  Was Jimmy Carter’s Foreign Policy Actually a Success? 31.12.2024 52мин

  The 39th president is remembered today with great affection. Jimmy Carter’s key initiatives abroad—from Central America to the Middle East, and with human rights at the center — are now looking more visionary by the day.
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  Being a Spy Can Be Pretty Stressful. The CIA is Trying to Help. (Rebroadcast) 24.12.2024 44мин

  The job comes with all sorts of risks and responsibilities plus exposure to a lot of violence and trauma — whether that’s out in a war zone or in the office, where analysts may work on cases involving horrific human rights abuses.
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  How Do You End An Endless War? 17.12.2024 41мин

  Monica McWilliams and John Alderdice, explain what it takes to get people to sit down with their enemies and whether the path to peace in Northern Ireland offers a way forward for the Middle East.
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  Snatching Mega-Yachts and Blacklisting Banks: Do Sanctions Actually Work? 10.12.2024 34мин

  This week we explore Russian yacht snatching, the impact of sanctions on the Iranian people, and how a once-obscure office inside the Treasury Department ended up putting a chokehold on national economies all over the world.
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  Defund or Unleash: What does effective policing look like? 03.12.2024 40мин

  Peter talks with three thoughtful, accomplished people who have worn the badge to find out what they’ve learned about what is broken in American policing, how to fix it, and whether some types of police work might be better left to someone else.
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  The FBI’s Love Affair with Hollywood 26.11.2024 39мин

  The FBI has had a cozy relationship with Hollywood since the days of the Bureau’s first director, J. Edgar Hoover, working behind the scenes with filmmakers to burnish its image.
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  What is “National Security” Anyway? 19.11.2024 35мин

  Declaring something a matter of “national security” is a great way to get people to take it seriously — and Congress to fund it. After all, what matters more than keeping the United States and its citizens safe from foreign attack?
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  The Alt-Right Was Once Just on the Fringes. Here’s How it Went Mainstream. 12.11.2024 45мин

  After instigating violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, the alt-right movement seemed to crumble — but journalist Elle Reeve, who’s been talking with them for years, says that doesn’t mean their ideas have gone away.
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  How Women Became Central to the Central Intelligence Agency (REBROADCAST) 05.11.2024 45мин

  Peter speaks with a former agent who entered the CIA in 1968, another who got her start just before 9/11, and the author of The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA.
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  In One Michigan County There’s a Republican Fighting to Restore Faith in Elections 29.10.2024 40мин

  Justin Roebuck, a county clerk in the swing state of Michigan, has a license plate that says ‘’I voted.” Roebuck first began volunteering as an election worker at age 16.
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  The Mass Shooting that Everyone Saw Coming 22.10.2024 47мин

  One year ago, Maine experienced the worst mass shooting in its history. It turned out many people and institutions had known for months before that the shooter, Robert Card, was in a mental health crisis and heavily armed.
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  Can Exposing American Secrets Make You Safer? 15.10.2024 38мин

  For almost 40 years, Tom Blanton and the National Security Archive have used the Freedom of Information Act to dislodge and declassify U.S. government secrets, from Cold War backchannels to intelligence failures in the Middle East.
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  There’s a Conspiracy Theory for Just About Everything, So Should You Be Worried? 08.10.2024 39мин

  The moon landing was faked; 9/11 was an inside job — conspiracy theories like these seem to surround most major events now, even when the facts have been well established for years.
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  Revisiting the First MAGA President 01.10.2024 43мин

  Ronald Reagan campaigned on a slogan to “Make America Great Again” and ushered in a new era of conservatism in America.
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  How Modern Autocrats Keep Each Other in Power 24.09.2024 31мин

  Journalist and historian Anne Applebaum has been observing and writing about the rise of authoritarianism for years.