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Podcasts

BRSL is home to three podcasts: the Risk Calculus, Levels of Analysis, and the BRSL Weekly Brief. The Risk Calculus takes listeners on a deep dive exploring pressing questions at the intersection of technology and national security in a multiple-episode mini-series format. The BRSL Weekly Brief is a weekly news podcast. And Levels of Analysis provides a deeper exploration of recent Lab research.

BRSL Weekly Brief

The Weekly Brief is BRSL’s news podcast, focused on understanding current events. Hosted by BRSL Communications Manager Vivian Bossieux-Skinner, each week features an interview-based discussion with lab experts and occasional external guests. Subscribe

Levels of Analysis

This podcast series is aimed at breaking down BRSL’s work on understanding and managing emerging risks at the intersection of security and technology — one episode at a time. Each episode acts as a companion to recent research at the lab, and provides in-depth explanation and analysis that goes along with the written publication.

The Risk Calculus

The Risk Calculus is our mini-series podcast: each season we do a deep dive on a different topic related to the Lab’s mission and work, interviewing experts in that area. Our first season featured Lab Faculty Director Professor Andrew Reddie discussing wargames. Listen in below.

Season 1: Shall We Play a Game?

Season 1: Shall We Play a Game?

In our first five-part mini-series, Professor Andrew Reddie takes a deep dive into an old way of thinking about risks that is being applied in new ways both here at the lab and beyond — wargaming. The renaissance of wargaming in academic and policy circles, along with a growing public interest in this approach to risk analysis, make it an ideal time to examine the method’s past, present, and future. What is a wargame? Who designs and plays these games? And how should we interpret what they tell us?

To unpack these questions, Andrew is joined by guests working at the cutting edge of research and practice.

Reading List and Episodes