now, there s a reason to go to war. how you butter your bread. but it s a children s story about the cold war and the escalation of it. i said i wasn t going to read it to you, but i actually no, i m just going to read the end of it. very end. because it s about developing weapons and one side getting something and the other side responding with a bigger weapon. but at the very end they have developed the big boy boomeroo, okay? right here at the very end the yooks and zooks are clashing. both of them have the big boy boomeroo. here s how dr. seuss ends the book. gramdpa, i shouted, oh, gee, who s going to drop it, will you or will he? be patient said grandpa, we ll see, we ll see. it s a cliff hanger. dr. seuss, right there. who s going to drop the big boy boomeroo? it s the cold war. we have atomic weapons. the soviet union has atomic weapons. we have an atomic bomb. they get one. we have to have a hydrogen bomb that takes an atomic bomb to detonate it, to set it off. dr.
p don don t forget yo. r this this is c. wipwith politics and publics programmiprogramming throughan peopp people apeople and e americp american story on history tv. gget our schedules and see pas programs at our website. arand you can join in t conversation on social media sites. this week on the civil war, hari jones, curator and assistant director at the african-american civil war memorial and museum, talks about the contributions of the african-american women during the war. thr this this is 90 mi. good evening. when our founding director, dr. frank smith jr. and secretary of state colin powell dedicated the spirit of freedom, the african-american civil war memorial in july of 1998, attention was brought to one of the best kept secrets in american history. attention was brought to the 209,145 soldiers and officers that were officially mustered into the bureau of united states colored troops. attention was brought to how these soldiers were organized, how the