S8 Ep214: PREVIEW Guest: Henry Sokolski. Sokolski describes a new warfare tactic piloted by Russia that utilizes non-nuclear strategic weapons to disable critical infrastructure nodes, such as electricity and communications. While China is actively building these i

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🗓️ 19 December 2025

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PREVIEW Guest: Henry Sokolski. Sokolski describes a new warfare tactic piloted by Russia that utilizes non-nuclear strategic weapons to disable critical infrastructure nodes, such as electricity and communications. While China is actively building these intercontinental systems to force surrender without nuclear fallout, the U.S. currently lacks a coherent response to this specific threat.

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0:00.0	This is John Batchel, colleague Henry Sikovsky of the Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center,
0:06.5	describes here a new kind of warfare piloted by the Russians so far, the U.S. is studying it now,
0:15.4	having to do with using strategic weapons but not nuclear-tipped.
0:20.8	How? Here, Henry, describes what you target
0:24.0	and what you use to hit that target, and how does the U.S. respond? Much more of this
0:31.3	tonight. Henry Sikovsky. What you do is you go to nodes for electricity, for communication, for energy,
0:41.3	and you shut them down only to be able to turn them back on when you want to.
0:49.7	But that might be after there's been surrender.
0:53.4	So non-nuclear intercontinental strike systems seem kind of ridiculous to us now because we have nuclear intercontinental strike systems.
1:05.5	But the Chinese are building them according to Pentagon.
1:08.6	And if they threaten us, I'm not sure we have a coherent response to that.

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