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Bomb hiroshima and nagasaki is that title of a series of American University institute of Nuclear Studies Institute Press briefings. Up next, for historians who have spent decades studying the topic summarize the findings about then take questions from journalists. The Nuclear Studies institute recorded this zoom event and provided the video. Barbara cochran, Professor Emeritus of the university of Missouri School of journalism, the world first journalism school. Andally i was a journalist news executive at the washington star, npr, bc, and cbs. I wont moderate the discussion today. And ninth, 1945, the United States dropped the only Nuclear Weapons ever used in a war on the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki. 75 years later the debate continues over the decision of president Harry S Truman to use these weapons. The world still echoes with the repercussions of that act. For journalists, the anniversary of major events offer what editors love, a news peg. Anniversaries present th
and they tend to vote in primaries for the candidates that they feel closest to. that they would like to see president. they are not voting about who they think could get elected. that may come back to haunt the republican party in 2024. because if you look at the democrats what they think of the race, they think that trump is going to win the nomination. and they think that biden will be beating him. because he did beat him. the case can be made that he is a loser. fox news analyst with an accurate assessment of donald trump s political track record over the last several years. in the opinion shared by one of the country s most conservative political groups. that group is out with a new attack against ronald trump. ask yourself, is it worth the risk? america is struggling because of joe biden s policies. but with donald trump, republicans lost the house. lost the white house, and the senate. and we have lost our chance to capitalize on biden s devastating record. if dona
In 1997 he began his program hard ball, which heirs on msnbc. He is author of seven bestselling cooks. Tip and the gipper, when politics worked, and kennedy and nix hardball. He. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome me in join me in welcoming chris matthews. [applause] thank you. What an intelligent crowd. I havent seen this much i. Q. , i dont know. It is great stuff. Well, i just came from seattle. The weather is nicer here and its great to come back here. It is wild, outdoorsy crowd here. I dont have to wear a coat or anything. I want to h talk about my book. We have until 11 15. I have only 35 minutes. I dont want to give away the book. It isce inexpensively priced. It is actually a beautiful piece of art. There is picture, my producer and i spent so much time peter and i wanted to get artwork for the book i wanted it to be a beautiful book for a beautiful guy. I wanted him with minority kids reaching out nobody like anybody haske done before. He was first white candidate reached i
It still says in 20 years theyl bring us Artificial Intelligence. Theres a wonderful guy in my book who ill get to in a moment. Lickliter said maybe so, but in the meantime, why dont we connect ourselves more closely to our machines, because thats going to be more useful. So in all the data points we have of the 60 years or so of the digital revolution has been that the combination that ada envisioned of the technology of humans and machines has always proved more fruitful than the class of pure Artificial Intelligence. Now, alan tourings own life, in some ways, is tragic, heroic and somewhat of a reminder that maybe we arent machines. After he does the imitation game, he debates it with people. People keep saying, you know, you have to have consciousness, you have to have impulses, you have to have sexual desires to be human whereas a machine wouldnt do that. He went kind of silence during those parts of the bbc debates because at that time he was engaged in the activity when the deba