S8 Ep578: 13. **Guest:** Henry Sokolski **Summary:** The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is criticized for reducing security at nuclear plants despite growing threats. Sokolski points out the disconnect between the NRC’s downplaying of risks and the FBI's seriou
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 14 March 2026
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**Summary:** The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is criticized for reducing security at nuclear plants despite growing threats. Sokolski points out the disconnect between the NRC’s downplaying of risks and the FBI's serious warnings.
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| 0:13.0 | Authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. I'm John Bachelor. I'm joined by my good colleague Henry Sikolsky, the executive director of the |
| 0:35.8 | Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center, |
| 0:38.7 | nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are said to be the driver for the decision by the United States |
| 0:45.0 | and its ally Israel to strike against Iran in these last days, to undermine the regime that |
| 0:52.2 | intends to continue to build nuclear weapons is suspected. |
| 0:56.5 | And the raid on the nuclear weapons suspect facilities in the summer of 2025 |
| 1:03.4 | is now said to have been short of ambition, of goals, |
| 1:08.7 | and therefore it is necessary again, but also to take away the threat. |
| 1:15.1 | You must remove the regime, hence the decap strike in the first hours, leading to the |
| 1:21.5 | death of the 86-year-old, or many, the supreme leader. |
| 1:25.9 | However, his son, 56 years old, perhaps wounded in the original decap strike, is now the supreme |
| 1:33.1 | leader. |
| 1:34.1 | So what about the nuclear weapons? |
| 1:36.1 | Well, there are different aspects of it, and I welcome Henry to start with something |
| 1:39.6 | that is much necessary to consider, given that there's talk about it, but no plan yet, to my knowledge. |
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