National Security Post 9/11, America's Atomic History and Future

The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 11, 2016

Journalist Steven Brill spent a year investigating national security in the wake of the September 11th attacks for a piece in The Atlantic: “Fifteen Years Later: Are We Any Safer?” The play "Quietly," now at the Irish Rep, deals with healing from violence in the wake of the Troubles. Tim Murphy on his novel, Christadora, set in the East Village during the 1980s. Dan Zak, a reporter at The Washington Post, looks at our nation's atomic history, from World War II to the present.  

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