Inside the Pentagon's nuclear war game
Journalist Annie Jacobsen joins Tom to discuss her bestselling and harrowing book Nuclear War: A Scenario, which maps out in minute-by-minute detail what would happen if a single nuclear missile were ...
20 Marras 202535min
The Generals vs The Lawyers
It's warfare or lawfare, but it can't be both. Patrick and Tom chat with General Sir Nick Parker, Patrick's friend and mentor of old, to talk about a letter they and six other four-star Generals signe...
13 Marras 202539min
Meet Skyfall and Poseidon, Putin’s new nuclear threats
In the space of only three days, President Putin announced the arrival of two new super weapons. Both powered by nuclear reactors, they have no equal in the west. Burevestnik, or Skyfall by its Nato c...
6 Marras 202528min
“A cauldron of pressure”, reporting from Ukraine’s frontline
For three and a half years, BBC correspondent James Waterhouse was the face of the Ukraine war, reporting nightly from Kyiv through air raids, blackouts, and breaking news. In this episode, he joins T...
29 Loka 202539min
How does a war over Taiwan play out?
While trade wars hog the headlines ahead of next week's historic meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, it's the potential of a real, kinetic war over Taiwan that's occupying the minds of milita...
22 Loka 202546min
Undersea cables: just how close is Russia to causing a catastrophic disaster?
While Nato looks up at the skies to Russian drones buzzing its airspace, a far more serious threat lurks below, on our ocean beds. And evidence is mounting that Moscow is already mapping the frontline...
15 Loka 202536min
What does the military do when a president goes rogue?
As President Trump orders the Texas National Guard into Chicago, America stands poised on the brink of a constitutional crisis. With troops already stationed in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., criti...
8 Loka 202532min
Putin’s drones probe Nato's defensive lines
A wave of drones targeting airports, threatening critical infrastructure and potentially endangering the lives of civilians brought a number of Nato countries briefly to a standstill this past month. ...
1 Loka 202535min
