Steve Yates

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1,090 appearances 8 recordings 3 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 12 Sep

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The President's Daily Brief · The PDB Situation Report | August 8th, 2026: The Iran War Exposed a Dangerous U.S. Weakness & America’s New Nuclear Strategy · 8 Aug 2026 podcast

Yeah, I don't I don't know that it's very well established what the science of this is, if you can even use those two words, the science anymore.

Uh but uh you know, people think people freaked out freaked out.

Yeah, in some circles.

A nuclear reactor uh had a meltdown in Japan, uh and that's not a tactical nuclear weapon, uh but they were concerned about the biological and other kind of implications.

Uh there are people in Taiwan

one that were afraid to buy food from that region for years after that, uh one wondering whether it would be contaminated.

So I mean can you have a device like that go off with with what kind of is there a mini nuclear winter in one little area over here?

Uh I I just don't know how that works.

And if you think of where warfare is really going, is this really the the area that we

Need to dive into.

There are some pretty powerful tools that we have in the financial realm to ice people out of the financial markets.

We have powerful unmanned systems now that leverage technology that could do things in cyber and even drone technology that could do a lot of different things.

If your objective is to compel your adversary to relent,

Nuclear is maybe the ultimate, but it leaves a trail of unrelented destruction after it, where some of these others may not.

And so I just don't know that it's even a necessary alley to go down, other than because of the potency of the devastation, uh, it it can it literally freaks people out.

And so that is one of the objectives when you're trying to terrify

an adversary against desolation against you or believing you might be mad enough to use it against them.

Mm-hmm.

I think that's the actually the nub of the issue.

Is this something that our war fighters are asking for?

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