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The Brian Lehrer Show / December 06, 2005

The Brian Lehrer Show

Tuesday, December 06, 2005
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  • Bombs Away

    Yesterday the head of the world agency that monitors nuclear programs said that Iran is just months away from being able to make an atomic bomb. After years of on-again, off-again talks with Europe, the theocracy appears to be steps away from its goal of making nuclear weapons.

You Give Me Feaver

Christopher Gelpi, associate professor of Political Science at Duke University and author, Choosing Your Battles: American Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Force (Princeton University Press, 2004).
and
James Bamford, contributing editor at Rolling Stone, former Washington investigative producer for ABC's "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings", and author, A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies (Doubleday, 2004)
- on Peter Feaver, John Rendon, and explaining the Iraq war to the American people

Christopher Gelpi (Duke)
A Pretext for War (Doubleday)

Missing Marjorie

Tim Noah, senior writer at Slate and editor, The Woman at the Washington Zoo by Marjorie Williams (PublicAffairs, 2005)
- on the life and death of his wife, Majorie Williams

» The Woman at the Washington Zoo (PublicAffairs)
» Marjorie Williams's columns on Slate
» Tim Noah's columns on Slate

Iran: Known Unknowns, and Unknown Unknowns

Paul Leventhal, founding president and senior advisor at the Nuclear Control Institute a research and advocacy center for preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism.
and
Joseph Cirincione, senior associate and director for Non-Proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- on Mohammed AlBaradei's recent statements on Iran's nuclear program

» The Nuclear Control Institute
» Joseph Ciricione (The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

Changing Minds

Farhad Manjoo, writer for Salon.com
- on Dalton Conley's very controversial op-ed in the Times last week, and how Farhad changed his mind over the last few weeks

» Farhad Manjoo writing on Salon's blog, Broadsheet (subscription or watch an ad)

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