Only and not for. I never went back to that library until july 5, 1998 for a book signing of my book walking with the wind. Up next on booktv after words with guest host lynn davis director of the rand corporations washington office. This weeks Eric Schlosser and his latest book command and control Nuclear Weapons, the damascus accident and the illusion of safety. In it the author of fast food nation argues even the most unlikely of assets with Nuclear Weapons can happen easier than we think. The program is about an hour. Host welcome. Eric, here is the book. Its a fantastic cover. Guest that is true. Host that it is 600 pages. Guest a lot of that is footnotes. Host say four or 500 regular pages so tell us in a couple of words what your reader needs to take away from your book. The book tells a story. It tells a story of a Nuclear Weapons accident in damascus arkansas that occurred in 1980 and i use that story, that narrative as a way of looking at the management of our Nuclear Weapons
Because we did that with natural gas. You will see that we are going to be looking at that from will and combined naturalgas and oil wells while. But that that is not about different regional issues. Its about what technologies are available and taking a look at moving forward. That is part of the met than strategy and a Climate Action plan. You will be seeing some white papers, of, but not direct regulation. We will have plenty of time to take a look. We certainly have plenty to do hanahan. I would volunteer that this is properly best left to the states i will you back my time. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chair. This booktv mr. Mccarthy and i want to associate myself with the comments from the chair in our full Committee Chair on the water issue. Its a big deal in my district in an allen has been dialed up quite a bit. I dont think i need to bring in a penny more. I did have a question. It is my understanding epa is not yet recommended blend requirements. The november proposal to the co
Ago you could have pumped out of all of lois lerner emails and dumped them on Senate Finance and ways and means. You did not do that. The eventually negotiated to my consternation a subset of all of her emails. I find it less than helpful and i find youre talking about reduction in time to inappropriate when you couldve given ways and means all lois lerner emails in a matter of seconds. It really is that simple and i assume they have access to them. So i appreciate we will have to work with you to prioritize and we willingly always have. In the meks of the document production in which there are massive numbers of potential documents, we will particularly prioritize. For today for the record on behalf of people on both sides have spoken, lois lerner emails, all of lois lerner emails is the highest current priority of this committee and will remain so as long as im chairman. So im not going to get into january. I believe if your team had been actively working in a matter of days he would
Guest my interest in writing about Nuclear Weapons, the spark i spent time in the air force after i finished writing any book, and one of the officers told me a story of the damascus accident. He was in a Missile Launch. I thought it was an extraordinary story. I had never heard of it. I could not believe what happened. The more i learned about it, the more it seemed like it was a very good way to look at these larger themes about Nuclear Weapons. About our strategy for using them, and about our management of this them. Its a story in which a seemingly trivial event, someone drops a tool leads to a potential catastrophe. The dropping of the tool damages an intercontinental ballistic missile, creates a situation with the missile might explode. In this case, the missile has the most powerful Nuclear Warhead the United States deployed on the ballistic missile. It was quite a story. Originally, i thought the book would be relatively short. Ivity going tell that story. The more i learned, t
Infrastructure with it is monday. The 10th of october 10 am here in the russian capital. Im unit only one. This is our team international. We begin with breaking news from ukraine where theyre helping reports of multiple missile strikes on key on several other major cities across the country. Ah, but this is some of the latest footage we have. As of right now, the extent of the damage is unclear. As you can see, several at vehicles, large plumes of smoke, and also in the year their vehicles destroyed an adviser to president zalinski reports that the strikes were close to the president ial office and Ukraine Security service. His office is in the capitol. While a cities metro lines has been stalked with old stations at bleats, have been turned into Shallow Church thats coming from the cities mirror off face. Local Officials Say 5 people are dead and 12 wounded in key. If the city of atlanta pro petrov calves reportedly come under attack as well, a number of other major cities in ukraine