EA - AMA: Andy Weber (U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense from 2009-2014) by Lizka

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: AMA: Andy Weber (U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense from 2009-2014), published by Lizka on September 26, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Andy Weber was the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical & Biological Defense Programs from 2009 to 2014. He's now a senior fellow at the Council on Strategic Risks. You might also know him from his appearance on the 80,000 Hours Podcast. Ask him anything!He'll try to answer some questions on Friday, September 29 (afternoon, Eastern Time), and might get to some earlier.I (Lizka) am particularly excited that Andy can share his experience in nuclear (and other kinds of) threat reduction given that it is Petrov Day today.Instructions and practical notes:Please post your questions as comments on this post.Posting questions earlier is better than later.If you have multiple questions, it might be better to post them separately.Feel free to upvote questions that others have posted, as it might help prioritize questions later.Other context and topics that might be especially interesting to talk about:Risks of "tactical" nuclear weapons like the new sea-launched cruise missile (Reuters)Andy's experience with Project Sapphire and the Nunn-Lugar programAndy's thoughts on biosecurity and preventing bioweapons useFor those who want to explore more: The Dead Hand by David Hoffman might be interesting; Project Sapphire and some of the work against biological threats are captured in it.He might not get to some questions, or be unable to answer some.Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org