{"podcast":{"title":"SpyTalk","slug":"spytalk-3670630","podcast_index_feed_id":3670630,"rss_url":"https://feeds.redcircle.com/d7fabfc8-69a5-4dcf-939b-3124a279b019","website_url":"https://redcircle.com/shows/spytalk7792","image_url":"https://media.redcircle.com/images/2026/1/22/21/fa3aee3a-24f2-40af-8dde-532ef3b50af9_finalspytalk-1.png","author":"SpyTalk, Jeff Stein","episode_count":219,"summary":"SpyTalk lives at the intersection of intelligence operations, foreign policy, homeland security, and military strategy. Hosted by veteran national security journalists Jeff Stein, Michael Isikoff and Karen J. Greenberg, the podcast features exclusives by SpyTalk’s roster of longtime reporters, news and profiles of US and foreign spymasters, and interviews with policymakers and expert authors. There’s nothing quite like it—a place for experts and laypersons alike, who enjoy national security scoops and insights by SpyTalk's subject matter experts. For more SpyTalk go to: https://www.spytalk.co/","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T06:18:41.536660+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/spytalk-3670630"},"episode":{"title":"War-Ender Weapons","slug":"war-ender-weapons","published_at":"2026-06-26T10:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/spytalk-3670630/war-ender-weapons","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/spytalk-3670630","url":"https://mswmedia.com/show/spytalk/","audio_url":"https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/716f38c5-43e0-483e-a9f6-31905d939af2/stream.mp3","summary":"Seeing-eye bombs were supposed to limit civilian casualties. Jeffrey Stern, author of “The Warhead,” explains why they didn’t. Jeffrey Stern The Warhead https://www.jeffreyestern.com/books Follow Michael Isikoff | https://x.com/isikoff Follow Karen Greenberg on Twitter | https://x.com/KarenGreenberg3 Follow Jeff Stein on Twitter | https://x.com/SpyTalker Subscribe to SpyTalk on Substack | https://www.spytalk.co/ Jeffrey E. Stern is an award-winning journalist and the author of five books, including his newest book The Warhead, The 15:17 to Paris, which was adapted as a major motion picture by Clint Eastwood and Warner Brothers, and The Last Thousand: One School’s Promise in a Nation at War, an honorable mention for best book of the year by Library Journal. Stern co-wrote and produced the award-winning independent film Yasmeen’s Element, which premiered at the SXSW film festival and was named a “best of the fest.” He has been named a graduate fellow at the Stanford Center for International Conflict and Negotiation and a grantee of the Pulitzer Center Fellow for Crisis Reporting. Stern’s reporting has appeared in magazines such as The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, and The Atlantic. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy","meta_description":"Seeing-eye bombs were supposed to limit civilian casualties. Jeffrey Stern, author of “The Warhead,” explains why they didn’t. Jeffrey Stern The Warhead h…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3611,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/spytalk-3670630/episodes/war-ender-weapons/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/spytalk-3670630/war-ender-weapons.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}