This is about one hour. Barbara this is our second half of this panel. We will go to a little bit past 1 00 during i just met glad last ad last evening over dinner. After dinner, we had a fascinating, decision about khrushchev and kennedy. But it was different ones, mrs. Jacqueline kennedy and mrs. Khrushchev. We may leave that for later discussion, but i enjoyed that conversation. Vlad is a professor of International History at the London School of economics. He is an expert of the cold war and soviet russian history, particularly intellectual history. Among his books particularly related to this topic, the failed empire and the cold war. I noted among his books zhivagos children. Having just watched the movie yet again, dr. Zhivago, i was drawn to that topic. Jeremy surrey is a longtime friend of the Miller Center. We are always happy to welcome him back as we did recently for an american for him on his latest book, the impossible presidency, which in light of the incumbent it could
The white male ushers with africanamerican staff, also while in washington, she led an effort to raise funds to create a memorial for victims of the titanic, but her greatest legacy was bringing thousands of japanese Cherry Blossom trees to the nations capital. Helen taft, this sunday night on cspans original series first ladies, influence and image. Their influence on the presidency. From Martha Washington to michelle obama. Sundays at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv. On cspan3. Up next, masuda hamiju, author of cold war crucible, the curkorean conflict and the post world. National university of singapore history professor hamiju argues that the cold war was not only a global conflict between the u. S. And soviet union but also led many countries in the west and east to crack down on perceived threats within. The Wilson Center hosted this 90minute event. Welcome to the Wilson Center. My name is charles krauss, and im a Program Associate with the Centers History and Public Po
Reentry vehicle. Everybody knows what it is, right . Lets look at it. Thats the bus. Thats on top of the rocket. Thats on top of the missile. Stage one, stage two, stage three. And now whats left is that. And each one of those groovy looking machines there is a one Megaton Nuclear warhead. There are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven warheads on the top of that particular missile. Thats an american missile. A mirv now allows you to put anywhere from three to as many as 12 warheads on the tip of a single missile. In the nose cone, and to drive that bus over target, and either send them out in a spread of independently targeted detonations or to fly over areas and drop one or two and continue to fly and drop one or two. Making any attempts to shoot down the missiles much less effective and making any attempt to wipe out our ability for second strike pretty ineffective. Imagine one, one u. S. Attack submarine surfacing with 18 missiles, each one tipped with seven 300 kiloton warheads
Reentry vehicle. Everybody knows what it is, right . Lets look at it. Thats the bus. Thats on top of the rocket. Thats on top of the missile. Stage one, stage two, stage three. And now whats left is that. And each one of those groovy looking machines there is a one Megaton Nuclear warhead. There are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven warheads on the top of that particular missile. Thats an american missile. A mirv now allows you to put anywhere from three to as many as 12 warheads on the tip of a single missile. In the nose cone, and to drive that bus over target, and either send them out in a spread of independently targeted detonations or to fly over areas and drop one or two and continue to fly and drop one or two. Making any attempts to shoot down the missiles much less effective and making any attempt to wipe out our ability for second strike pretty ineffective. Imagine one, one u. S. Attack submarine surfacing with 18 missiles, each one tipped with seven 300 kiloton warheads
[ laughter ] the book is available for purchase at major book stores like this. And actually we have books on sale outside our room today thank you very much for listening to my talk. [ applause ] ill now introduce our first discussant, ryan irwin, who writes about the intersection of International Law and global power during the 20th century. His first book apartheid and the unmaking of the liberal world order examined this intersection against the backdrop of african decolonization. Hes won several writing and Research Prizes from the society of American Foreign relations and hes currently writing a book about legal realisms influence on american liberal internationalism during the early cold war. He is an assistant professor at the university at albany at the State University of new york. So one place to begin unpacking professor masudas book is its research question, which was meaty. What was the cold war . His answer, as youve just heard, is that the cold war was an imagined reali