To the attention of the english people meant unleashing a vicious wave of attacks in the West Midlands in the early 70s. In a sustained campaign over 18 months, 50 bombs and incendiary devices exploded. On the 21st of november, as thousands of people were enjoying a night out in birmingham, the ira attacked the city centre. A bomb exploded in the Mulberry Bush bar at about 8 15. Ten people were killed. Archive the force of one of the explosions was so great it badly damaged a bus passing the street. Minutes later, a second bomb exploded this time at the tavern in the town. 11 people died in the blast. Altogether, around 200 people were injured. Warnings were given, but they were too vague and too late. It wasnt until next morning, with more than 50 dying and mutilated victims still in birminghams hospitals, that people realised the full scale of the disaster. Although its more than a0 years since the bombs exploded, the people of birmingham have never forgotten what happens. The origin
Very destructiveness of those weapons that predicted the deterrence of great power war since 1945. Why . Great power landlords had been the scourge of eurasia for 34 years before the United States dropped atomic weapons. Wars that it can to have killed tens of millions on the battlefield and tens of millions more through disease and political upheaval. Seventy years ago most responsible people expected a third world war to follow the 1st and 2nd with consequences far worse. Thankfully that war never came and to misuse the title from a famous book it has led many people to proclaim thank god for the atom bomb. A Nuclear Weapons prevent world war iii and do these weapons have the intended effect of stabilizing World Politics but making great power war unthinkable . This powerful notion is that the foundation of what we have come to call deterrent. Our deterrent. Our whole way of thinking about Nuclear Weapons is centered around this concept much of policy has been driven by the fact that
Have a lot of article two people in this room. Even though the title as i understand this is the imperial presidency. Understand that republicans have always sort of deferred to the administration, to the executive branch for Foreign Policy issues. I agree with some of the speakers that on the other Hand Congress has its appropriate roam. Well, administrations have negotiated the u. N. Security Council Sanctions and its my bleach that the administration does have the ability on your own accord to deal with those sanctions. The executive branching also has their own executive sanctions that they put in place against iran and i believe obviously they have the right to dole deal with those as they choose. On the other hand, there are congressionally mandated sanctions that congress put in place. As a matter of fact, Congress Puts them in place with the administration in essence kicking and screaming all along the way, saying that somehow or another this was going to be damaging with our r
This land is my land, from california, to the New York Island sunday afternoon at 2 00 on American History tv on cspan3. Congress continues on its twoweek recess, several members are traveling. Nancy pelosi is in cambodia with a bipartisan delegation of members. The delegation visited the halo trust facility in cambodia. The delegation will travel to vietnam, korea and japan. John boehner is in the middle east. He met with iraqs prime minister. The speaker will travel to israel later this week. A press release says he and a delegation as the deadline approaches tonight for an Iranian Nuclear agreement, we present a discussion about Nuclear Weapons, National Security and the future of the bomb. Posted by the Panel Discussion for the Southern Methodist University Tower center for Political Studies and includes a former commander of u. S. Strategic command. Good evening. Welcome to smu and the special forum on Nuclear Weapons. Welcome also to the security and Strategy Program here at smu.
In part, the food and medical products that American Consumers and patients use in their daily lives. Nearly 40 of finish drugs americans consume today are made elsewhere, and 80 of the active pharmaceuticals in those drugs are manufactured outside our borders. For the food supply, the numbers are equally startling. More than 85 of seafood that is eaten here comes from other countries. About 50 of our fresh food and 20 of our fresh vegetables, and these changing dynamics obviously introduce new complexities, new risks for American Consumers, as these products follow increasingly complex Global Supply chains to get to your table. And your kitchen cupboard. We can no longer rely on simple inspections at the border to track the products that are coming through. The volume has quadrupled over the last decade. We have introduced new hightech riskbased screening systems of the borders to allow us to target on the most vulnerable commodities, the ones with the highest risk. We really have to