Strat Com News Today

im john roberts. the risky business of human smuggling is reaching far beyond towns along the border. numerous interceptions of smugglers with migrants shoveled into vehicles to get into america. it doesnt always end in a bust or in the migrants getting through. dramatic scene in houston. f.b.i. agents rescue migrants kidnapped for ransom. >> two hostages were safely rescued by the f.b.i. and no agents were injured. >> dana: were live in mission, texas with more on that kidnapping horr...

Something else, and i dont want to mention what that might be, the artillery, the rockets and all of the things that north korea has to fire on seoul has been reported many times, can kill hundreds of thousands of people, more if youre talking about a nuclear exchange. >> very briefly, an icbm heading to the united states, is that something that can be taken down? >> it can. we have missile defense systems. there are systems in japan, there are systems on the west coast of the united states. in ...

Citize citizens. but that wasnt the only troubling recent incident. it also cited some of the recent trouble at the u.s. militarys strategic command, strat-com, the part that the president calls if and when he decides he wants to use a nuclear weapon. theyd be the ones to wage nuclear war. the number two commander in strat-com was hired after alleged to be involved with gambling at casinos with counterfeit chips. who cares, right? unless youre the number two guy in charge of waging nuclear war o...

That might be the rest of your life. when the nuclear threat initiative did their most recent ranking of the safe keeping of the worlds nuclear material and nuclear weapons, we slipped a bit. the united states slipped a ranking. one of the troubling recent incidents that was cited in the report was the ease with which our supposedly super secure uranium facility in tennessee was broken into by those senior citizens. but that wasnt the only troubling recent incident. nuclear threat niche tooif ci...