S8 Ep578: 14. **Guest:** Henry Sokolski **Summary:** The FBI warned California about Iranian drone threats against infrastructure. Sokolski notes that U.S. nuclear plants are vulnerable and currently lack the clear legal authority to effectively handle unauthorized
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 14 March 2026
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**Summary:** The FBI warned California about Iranian drone threats against infrastructure. Sokolski notes that U.S. nuclear plants are vulnerable and currently lack the clear legal authority to effectively handle unauthorized drone overflights.
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| 0:00.0 | Call my wife. |
| 0:01.6 | Calling UK Wildlife. |
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| 0:11.4 | BlackRock Investment Management UK Limited. |
| 0:13.0 | Authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. I'm John Batchew with my colleague Henry Sikolsky, Executive Director, |
| 0:34.3 | a nonproliferation and policy education center. |
| 0:37.4 | Iran is now conducting an asymmetrical war. |
| 0:40.5 | What does that mean? |
| 0:41.7 | It takes on the U.S. by not building a fleet of carrier strike groups |
| 0:46.5 | or launching F-15 bomb trucks to drop smart bombs all over Iran |
| 0:53.2 | or even firing Tomahawk missiles into Iran, one of which |
| 0:56.8 | hit a school because of bad targeting? No, asymmetry means you attack the vulnerability where there's |
| 1:03.2 | no defense. That's the supply chain. That's what they talk about with the oil right now and the burning tankers in the Persian Gulf. |
| 1:13.6 | That's asymmetrical warfare. |
| 1:15.9 | Can it be avoided the next time? |
| 1:17.7 | What about pipelines, Henry, where? |
| 1:21.0 | Well, it's been discovered by the Wall Street Journal that there is a pipeline that goes to the Red Sea, |
| 1:29.3 | and it pumps a certain number of millions of barrels, not a huge number, but an interesting number. |
| 1:37.6 | I think it's two million barrels. |
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