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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Or is this something that people are imagining could be the next wave of a revolution in military affairs?
Uh and I get the feel that it's coming from that latter category of idea people trying to put something into the mix that I d I just don't know.
I wouldn't have any way to talk to all of our top war fighters.
I don't
I just don't get the sense that they're asking for this.
Uh and uh so that's a little bit of a mismatch.
And since Bridge has decidedly better hair than I do, I of course have to be jealous.
Yeah, well, I mean, uh it I the only time they've been used is when they were essentially a tactical nuke because none of the rest of the world had them.
Uh and so you could have that ultimate effect at that time.
There was no possibility of a similar counter strike uh in nineteen forty five.
Now soon thereafter there was there was the potential
For that.
And conspicuously, we have avoided that rung of the ladder ever since.
And so I mean, and we've also, by all accounts, left our nuclear arsenal undertested and underdeveloped.
And so it seems to me that there is a part of this where there's the main purpose for the ultimate weapon.
weapon, and that is if it ever has to be used, it's under the most extreme circumstances.
But if it's going to be used, you have completely greased the threat that could possibly be used against you.
And you got there first.
Uh and so that the tactical ones wouldn't seem relevant to that calculus.
Uh you're you're talking about something that's survival of the world.
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