Germany entering into world war i. More than 100,000 americans died in the conflict. The influx of u. S. Resources changed the tides of the global war bringing it to a close 18 months later on november 11th, 1918. To mark the 100th anniversary of what was then known as the great war, American History tv is live from the museum in kansas city, missouri. Well be here for the next two and a half hours. Well take you on a tour of some of the exhibits and involve you in conversations with top world war i historians. As we open our program were joined in the museum by the president and ceo of museum matthew naylor. You have a lot of resources to preserving the memory. Why is it important for people in 2017 to know this story . I dont think you can think of the last 100 years, particularly in the United States, without understanding the impact of world war i. Thats true of countries right across the globe. Im an australian. Im an american as well. For australia its the defining moment rather
California. Amb. Antonov thank you very much. It is a great honor to be here. I would like to thank the world u. S. Counsel for this opportunity and it is very important to discuss a burning issue. Together, doe do we need each other . Are we partners . Are we enemies . Who we are, the u. S. And the Russian Federation. On . I dont want to blame anyone for the Current Situation in russianamerican relations, but today is the First Official remarks by me as an ambassador for the Russian Federation to the United States. [applause] amb. Antonov i am not a magician. I want you to stop killing in chechnya. Stop killing gay people in chechnya. I want gay people left alone in chechnya. We need to protect gay people. Stop killing gay chechnyans. Stop killing gay chechnyans. Stop killing gay chechnyans. Stop killing gay chechnyans. [applause] [crowd noise] amb. Antonov you can see our relations are complicated. It seems to me everybody has the right to explain what he wants. How he can see how he
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible] there are events that the council, we do out of duty. There are events that we do interest and there are events that the Atlantic Council, we do out of friendship and long years of bonding. This is all three of those. That is where the duty also grows. I have been stealing harlans ideas for years. Thats right always upsets me when he writes about because then i cannot say it was my idea it was his idea. But this is one of those harlan esque brilliant ideas. When you hear him talk about some of the most interesting ideas, and assertive, why didnt i think about that . Why did i not say it that way . And so, the first paragraph, it gives you a sense of while many of us sometimes engage a little too much this does not happen to be one of his weaknesses. President s, politicians and public have failed to grasp this simple truth. For more than a halfcentury, america has lost every war it has started. And you find yourself saying, that is right likewise,
Influence, blood money, body of lies and most recently, the quantum spy. This is part of our 2018 special fiction addition of indepth. Host David Ignatius, whats the premise of the quantum spy. Guest the us is locked in a new Manhattan Project race to build a piece of technology that is world changing, that is the quantum computer and our principal rival in that race is china. I told you as far as simply the facts, the the quantum spy is a novel that imagines characters who involve intelligencebattles , and other secrets about this world changingtechnology. Principally its the story of my hero orest chang. An officer who is asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in the process learned things about himself, things about the cia, they do not how the world works that shake him to his foundation and we also see in this novel how the Chinese Intelligence Services , not so familiar to readers as five fiction. We all feel weve been in Moscow Center with carla and the russian
The quantum computer the principal rival ms. China that the quantum spy is a novel that the characters to be involved to see who can steal the other secret over changing technology but simply it is the story of my hero. Of a cia officer who is asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in process learn things about himself and the cia that she came up to his foundation. Not so familiar to readers of Science Fiction like the russian spy world but but it takes us into the world of security. That is the principal antagonist in the book. Host how much is real . I always say the preface exist in the imagined world if you take any book that i write the menu and up with the mud pie. E. But that said i try to do a lot of research i research that for many months going to the computer laboratories and i travel to every place mentioned in the book study the Chinese Intelligence Service. Would be those characters o dont exist in real life but it is as real as i could make it be and st