Conference and theyre always occasions for looking back and drawing attention and theres another reason to look back at potsdam as we are reentering a world of Great Power Competition and reentering a world where geopolitics seems to have come back to the fore of international thinking and International Relations thinking. So it is well worth us coming back to this subject. So im especially glad to have a chance to talk to you about it. I wish it was in person again in kansas city. I wish that we weraible to do this face to face, but we will do the very best that we can. The key thing here that i want to return to throughout this presentation is shown by this photograph here of Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and smiling and shaking hands and the point i want to reiterate here is that these three men and most of the advisers around them did not believe that what they were doing at potsdam was laying the seeds of a cold war. We know from the scholarship of the 1960s, 70s and beyond, a
Companies as a Public Service and brought you today, your television provider. Up next, the Manhattan Project is a subject of a lecture by George Mason University history professor Martin Sherman is the author of a world destroyed, harris she met and its like a cease and a coauthor of a pulitzer winner, mr. Sherman details the development of the atomic bomb, beginning with the discovery efficient in 1938 through the use of atomic bombs in cities like kawasaki and hershey. The event was hosted in washington d. C. It is just under two hours. Our speaker tonight is martin sure. When hes the professor at the history at martin mason. Hes also the author of a world destroyed, the atomic bomb and the world, alliance which won the historic foreign relations, as well as the american book prize. It was a 1975 finalist for it is subtitled hiroshima and its legacies. Hes held appointments at the cardoza fund, visiting as this thing professor at American History at Yale University and as the burnet
From moscow headquarters youre watching the weekly here on r. T. International im whereas on a lockwood welcome to the program and we start was some breaking news this hour british Tour Operator thomas cook has collapsed leaving at least 150000 holidaymakers stranded the company employed around 1000 people in the u. K. And 22000 worldwide and it was thought to be the worlds oldest travel operator functioning since 841 thomas cook cease trading off the failed talks in the Financial Rescue package and the British Government has pledged to ensure that all citizens stranded abroad will be brought home in what is being described as the countrys largest ever peacetime repatriation effort we will keep across the state details and keep you updated. The president of iran has Foreign Forces to stay away from the persian gulf saying they only bring misery and disaster itself to the u. S. Announced extra troop deployments to the region accusing iran of bombing saudi refineries a week ago a claim t
You know watching the weekly here on r. T. International im rise on a low could thank you for joining us. The president of iran has a Foreign Forces to stay away from the persian gulf saying the only bring misery and disaster thats after the u. S. Announced extra trip deployments to the region accusing iran of bombing saudi refineries a week ago a claim that tehran flatly denies. The president has approved the deployment of u. S. Forces which will be defensive in nature and primarily focused on air and Missile Defense we will also work to accelerate the delivery of military equipment to the kingdom of saudi arabia and the u. A. E. To enhance their ability to defend themselves it is clear that even the saudis themselves dont believe the fiction of iranian involvement. Well rao flared up on the 19th of september when drones set fire to saudi arabias biggest oil site the raid was claimed by the sheer rebels in yemen which have been the target of a Saudi Bombing Campaign for the past 4 and
Youre watching the weekly here on r. T. International im arizonan lockridge thank you for joining us and we start with our breaking news a british Tour Operator thomas cook has collapsed after a failed talks on a Financial Rescue that leaves 600000 holidaymakers stranded including 150000 british nationals the company employed some 22000. 00 people worldwide and it was considered to be the worlds oldest travel operator thomas cook ceased trading after talks on securing a 200000000 pound rescue package failed the British Government has pledged to ensure that all citizens stranded abroad or will be brought home in whats been described as the countrys largest ever peacetime repatriation effort. Now back to the weekly the president of iran the hazards Foreign Forces to stay away from the persian gulf saying they only bring misery and disaster thats after the u. S. And asked extra troop deployments to the region accusing iran of bombing saudi refineries a week ago a claim that tehran flatly