For information on our schedule and to give up with the latest history news. Next, nate jones, directory of the National Security archives freedom of information act project talks about his new book, able archer 83. A secret history of the nato exercise that almost triggered nuclear war, he explores ronald s thoughts on Nuclear Energy and jones also discusses ofhe discusses the process declassifying the government materials that were the basis of his book. This hourlong event is hosted by the National Archives in washington, d. C. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, mr. Jones the first place people look in a newly published book is the index. At the library of congress and other Research Institutions we look at acknowledgment pages and the bibliography also. Looking for ourselves. If you look at the able archer book, you will see different offices. The large portion of documents upon which the author based
Hosted by the Plymouth Center in austin, texas. Im a professor here at the lbj School University of texas. Its a great pleasure to welcome you all here. Its my pleasure to moderate this panel. I will introduce the panelist really because you have their bios. I wont go through their bios in my introduction. Its an interesting time to be talking about europe. Period in which the attention of the world shifted away from europe, we tended to take for granted the achievement of a more united europe. Now that assumption is being called into question. The achievement of a more united europe, including Eastern Europe and western europe, is one of the most monumental achievements of my lifetime. I wouldnt say its under threat, but it is facing numerous challenges from russia, from the greek debt crisis, from immigration, from brexit, and from the president elect of United States. All the things conspired to make europe more interesting. Lets put it this way. The period, the Reagan Administratio
Panel of scholars discuss how the United States and the United Kingdom cooperated to train Intelligence Officers in the developing world. The panel also explores the different ways the americans and the soviets understood and cultivated espionage and intelligence during the cold war. This hour and 30 minute event is part of a larger conference led welcome, everyone. History and Public Policy program at the Woodrow Wilson center for scholars. I am thrilled and delighted and privileged to welcome all of you to the wilson center, and to this annual meeting of the association of International Intelligence history. That is cosponsored by the association, the wilson center, and the German Historical Institute. Which will be hosting a fun saturday morning. Delighted to see so many familiar and new faces. Delighted to have so many leading experts on intelligence history and Intelligence Matters from both sides of the atlantic here with us today. We are also throw that this event will be taped
Watch it live or on demand or on your smart phones or tablets. Hillary clintons historic acceptance speech on thursday night on cspan radio app and cspan. Org. Up next, captain Benjamin Griffin talks about president reagan and the soviet union moves to the diplomatic forefront. The is an hour and 40 minutes event. Now, let me introduce ben griffin who graduated in the academy of 2006 and commissioner of intelligence officer. He served while deployed in iraq in 2007 and 2008 and as an assistant in brigade in 2011. Hes currently assigned to the United States academy as a industry instructor. His military award and declarations, hes currently abd for the university of texas of austin and working on the dissertation and National Security policy of Ronald Reagan. His Research Includes grand strategi strategies, American Foreign relations and the cold war. Ben holds a bachelor of science from the United States military academy. A master of art from the university of arizona. A master of hist
Indict all of them and thats not liberal in my sense of the word. But equally there have been a lot of individuals doing wrong and i think conservatives have been far too quick to defend them and to endorse a way of proceeding within the criminal justice that they wouldnt in any other circumstance. Fortunately, i think thats changing so yes, there is this group but i think the libertarians are winning that argument for short. Rich lowry under other colleagues think about your book, what are your . National review is a very intellectually diverse place. Rich is more of a conservative. In this book i hope to present the arguments. Im not rude to anyone in the book is totally respectful of all of you. And since its a National Review idea. There should be something in it fo i would have brought a copy down but its a pacific and it was too heavy for me to carry. I will interrupt at 1 00 lets weve already gone into open discussion so that well have at least 10, 15 minutes for q a. Lets give