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President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (US DOS)War Cloud
As our country focuses in on the war on terror, Helen Caldicott and Robert McNamara contend our most serious threats is still nuclear. Not a bomb in a suitcase but thousands of Russian warheads, remnants of the cold war, still targeting our cities.
Women in Uniform
Melissa Sheridan Embser-Herbert Ph.D , associate professor of Sociology at Hamline University and author, Camouflage Isn't Only for Combat: Gender, Sexuality, and Women in the Military (NYU Press, 1998 and A Modest Proposal: Privacy as a Flawed Rationale for the Exclusion of Gays and Lesbians from the U.S. Military (International Security, 2002) discusses women in the military and the participation of women in the abuses at Abu Gharaib
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Colonel Sam Gardiner Retired Air Force Colonel who teaches military operations at The War Colleges
Eat the Rich, Fight with the Church, Save the Woods
Bob Hennelly WNYC New Jersey correspondent and a contributing editor for New Jersey Monthly on McGreevey's eighth inning maneuverings
Yongbyon Silver
David Kang associate professor of government and adjunct associate professor at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies (Columbia University Press, 2003)
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Victor Cha D.S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair in Asian Studies and associate professor of government in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and co-author, Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies (Columbia University Press, 2003
da Bomb
Helen Caldicott pediatrician and president of the Nuclear Policy Research,
Institute and author, The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex (New Press 2004) on nuclear nonproliferation
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Robert McNamara former secretary of defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, former president of the World Bank on nuclear non proliferation
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Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
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Squatting, Then and Now
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