Topic: Eod

Former Navy EOD officer Tom Sauer joins the show to discuss why he believes the drones over New Jersey are not detecting radiation. Sauer, who was attached to a Special Operations task force, explains that the U.S. has highly sophisticated, well-funded organizations dedicated to preventing WMD threats. He notes that while nuclear weapons are difficult to track, the U.S. focuses on "upstream defeat" to stop devices before they reach the homeland.

Sauer addresses the theory of a missing Soviet-era nuclear weapon, noting that such devices require intensive, regularly scheduled maintenance to remain functional. He argues that a warhead sitting in a bunker for 30 years would likely be non-functional without state-level infrastructure. Sauer also mentions that after the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S. made deals to ensure nuclear weapons were removed from Ukraine and returned to Russia.