Brian here is a piece of video of you on this network in 1979. If you look at the recent government reports concerning threemile island, the government concedes that one out of 10 people will eventually die of cancer in the threemile island area. Brian do you remember that time almost 40 years ago and have you changed your thinking . I remember that very vividly. Michio when the threemile island to happen, ever was that we needed a scientist about the site for this mess to the American People. So that contacted me and i said to myself this why i do for a what i do for a living. Im a physicist. I said to myself i will get on National Television and National Radio because the situation demands it. Not because i want to do it but because people had to know, the dangers, the positives, the negatives of energy, one of the Big Questions of the age. That is how i backed into becoming a media person. Brian you say in your book that there was a teacher in second grade that had a big impact on y
Brian do you remember that time almost 40 years ago and have you changed your thinking . Michio i remember that very vividly. When the threemile island to happen, ever was that we needed a scientist about the site for this mess to the American People. So that contacted me and i said to myself this why i do for a what i do for a living. Im a physicist. I said to myself i will get on National Television and National Radio because the situation demands it. Not because i want to do it but because people had to know, the dangers, the positives, the negatives of energy, one of the Big Questions of the age. That is how i backed into becoming a media person. Brian you say in your book that there was a teacher in second grade that had a big impact on your future. Michio she said god so loved the earth that he put the earth just right of the sun, not too far that the oceans will freeze but just right from the sun. Now, i was floored. I was in second grade. This was a scientific principle with th
Television and online, cspan is your unfiltered view of government so you can make up your own mind. Brought to as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. Brian brian here is a piece of video of you on this network in 1979. [video clip] at the recent government report concerning the threemile island, the government concedes that one out of 10 people will eventually die of cancer in the threemile island area. Brian do you remember that time almost 40 years ago and have you changed your thinking . Michio i remember that very vividly. I am a theoretical physicist and i work with the theories of albert einstein. Being before a Television Camera was a new experience but when the threemile island to happen, ever was that we needed a scientist about the site for this mess to the American People. So they contacted me and i said to myself this why i do for a what i do for a living. Im a physicist. I said to myself i will get on National Television and National Radio because the si
Be september 23. Brian dr. Michio kaku, here is a piece of video of you on this network in 1979. Michio if you look at the recent government reports concerning threemile island, the government now concedes that one out of 10 people will eventually die of cancer in the threemile island area. Brian do you remember that time almost 40 years ago and have you changed in your thinking . Michio yes. I remember that very vividly. Im a theoretical physicist and i work with the theories of einstein and quantum theory. The three mile island accident happened, media was saying we need a scientist, we need a scientist to talk about that to talk about that the American People. I the media contacted me and sent myself, this is what i do for living. Im a physicist. I said to myself i will get on National Television and National Radio because the situation demands it. Not because i want to do it but because people had to know, the dangers, the positives, the negatives of energy, one of the Big Question
The oldest one was 20, and the youngest one was 11. So they had to deal with it then and always. Brian the question i had after i read the book, why do you want us to know all this . Katharine i really dont suppose that i meant to just tell everything to everybody, but once i sat down to write my story, i just tend to be frank and open and i wanted to be very truthful and i just wrote it the way i saw it and the way the research came up with. I told it as i the best i could. Brian when did you start it . Katharine about 6 1 2 years ago i started to do the research for this book. I actually had the idea even longer ago than that. Brian you addressed early in the book that you wrote it yourself. Katharine i did. But i also had very good assistance from a fine researcher, evelyn, my editor so i felt like i had assistance from them but i wrote the words myself. Brian how did you go about it . Katharine well, for about two years we did research because i s Cable Television companies and is