SILL's Speakers in the Media, Year Round!
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Rod Adams
Atomic Insights August 14, 2023
Where Is The Nuclear Industry Headed? Four Top Executives Share Their Thoughts At Ans Utility Working Conference 2023
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Rod Adams summarizes the insights on the outlook for nuclear power in the US following the ANS Utility Conference. He sees the promise of significant expansion in nuclear energy based on new designs coming to fruition. Major challenges to that growth come from labor shortages, particularly in trades, and finance, where government incentives seem to be available to some projects, but not others.

Bob Bunting
WUSF Public Media, June 26, 2023
Sarasota Man Aims To Make Environmental Science Understandable
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WUSF profiles Bob Bunting and his efforts to make climate science approachable to non-scientists. Describing his extensive professional experience, it highlights his current effort in Sarasota to present simple steps we can all take to help ameliorate the impact of climate change.


Sarasota Herald Tribune, September 5, 2023
Sarasota Hurricane Expert: Record-Warm Gulf of Mexico is 'rocket fuel for hurricanes'
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In an interview, Bob Bunting explains how global warming and higher sea levels are increasing the number of and force of hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. He predicts it is only a matter of time before Sarasota experiences a direct hit.

Bruce Hoffman
Defense One May 26, 2023
The National Counterterrorism Center Must Expand To Better Fight Domestic Terrorists
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Writing with Jacob Ware, Bruce Hoffman argues the National Counterterrorism Center needs authorization to provide a strategic level of focus on growing threats from US domestic terrorism, both right and left. Current authorization stemmed from the post 9/11 external threats and prevents the NTCT from fulfilling this function. Hoffman and Ware argue that these domestic threats and the environment that nurtures them form the current priority threat.

Richard Morningstar
The Hill July 21, 2023
a Secure Gas Supply And Climate Action Go Hand-In-Hand
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Ambassador Morningstar, writing with Paddy Ryan, examines the European energy supply stressed by efforts to address climate change and wean itself off of Russian energy supplies after the Ukraine. They stress the need for the U.S. to commit to continued availability of low methane US LNG as a key part of the solution, even as the U.S. too strives to lower our climate changing emissions.

Nolan Peterson
Real Clear Defense, June 19, 2023
Ukraine War Highlights a New Threat To The American Homeland
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Nolan Peterson examines the use of drones in the Ukraine theater and describes how they would likely be applied by US foes in a campaign against the U.S. He suggests we are not moving fast enough to deploy the homeland defense that is needed to counter drones.

Dennis Ross
Washington Institute for Near East Policy July 27, 2023
The Wrong Message At The Wrong Time
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Ambassador Ross counters the arguments of a diverse group of commentators calling for reduced US security assistance to Israel to achieve a range of objectives. He points out a number of reasons reductions would be wrong-headed, and likely to create new problems in the region for Israel and the U.S.


Foreign Policy, July 6, 2023
Why a Weak Abbas Is Dangerous For Israel
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Ambassador Ross reviews the loss of credibility by Abbas and the Palestinian Authority and the resulting impact on the lives of Palestinians and the security of Israel. He says that it is essential for the Biden Administration to engage in active diplomacy to achieve reforms of the PA administration that allow it to restore its credibility with Palestinians. He believes that will be essential for increased security of Israel and for the success of US regional diplomacy.

Peter W Singer
Defense One, June 8, 2023
China's New Conscription Rules Reveal Concerns
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Dr Singer, writing with Thomas Corbett, analyzes recent changes to China’s conscription rules. They indicate the new rules expose some of the weaknesses China’s army (PLA) faces: a difficulty keeping educated conscripts, resistance to service at all, and physical shortcomings of many recruits.

Angela Stent
Foreign Affairs July 13, 2023
Should Ukraine Negotiate With Russia? --Russia Can Be Stopped Only On The Battlefield *
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Foreign Affairs publishes comments by several Russia experts responding to an article arguing it is now time for the U.S. to facilitate a negotiated solution to the invasion of Ukraine. Dr. Stent's response argues that there is no basis to believe a viable negotiation is attainable, and a resolution can only be found on the battlefield. She says Russia has broken every agreement it has made about the Ukraine. It's war aims are unlimited and have not changed. Putin repeatedly says Ukraine and the Ukrainian people do not exist outside of Russia, and blames the war and its prolongation on the West.

Jeremi Suri
The Chronicle of Higher Education March 26, 2023
'It Doesn't Have To Be This Way': One Scholar's Front-Row Seat To Higher-Ed Battles In Wisconsin And Texas *
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In this interview of Dr. Suri, he looks at the political challenges to Academia he experienced first in Wisconsin and now at the University of Texas. He says distrust of the work of the Universities comes when that work challenges the positions of politicians and their funders. He doesn't believe that research and teaching is politically motivated, but comes from the interest of the professors in their topics. For his own part in reaction, he says, he has focused his efforts on understanding and explaining the historical roots of the divisions now roiling our society.