[ applause ]. Pick up a newspaper and just glance at the headline. Check out the internet and read almost any post. Theres news about terrorism anywhere and its all very frightening. It will keep you up at night. One day theyre saying new york city is a target. The next day is chicago. Then las vegas, even the air force academy. The president tells us that we dont have to worry. Isis is not going to attack the homeland yet. Then a republican president ial candidate comes out and says, well, maybe we do have to worry. Our borders are very pourus, but theres no doubt about it, my children are growing up in a world of terrorism. Terrorism has become part of the dna of the times in which we live. So consider this very harrowing scenario. A terrorist cell well;p finance covertly enters america. They set up their headkwauters and they become bombing munition factories and depots. A bomb rocks the u. S. Capitol building. The nations richest man is targeted in a bold assassination attempt. Fro
Blum, an investigative journalist and author of the new New York Times bestseller become become as well as many other great books. He is currently a contributing editor at vanity fair. While at the New York Times he was twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Several of his books were nonfiction best sellers including, among others i pledge allegiance, the true story of the walkers, an american spy family that was turned into a great mini series on cbs, perhaps some of you watched it in the past. Gang land how the fbi broke the mob in 1993. The eve of destruction. The untold story of the yom kippur war in 2003. American lightning terror of mystery and the birth of hollywood and the crime of the century in 2008. A floor of heaven, a true tale of the last frontier and the yukon gold rush in 2011. I should also mention that Warner Brothers is preparing a film of dark invasion starring Bradley Cooper as tom, the hero of the book. Please welcome, howard blum. 4 lu
Sympathetic with communist principles. For this reason subject is dangerous as an employee at the radiation laboratory. This is the cal laboratory. Pash singlehandedly could keep people from getting jobs inside the Manhattan Project. Here you have three of the top people on that third tier of scientists under steve nelsons command. I want to read you the recommendation for max friedman, who was one of these guys providing information. It is recommended that subject be immediately separated from his employment on this project. Drafted into the army, and then removed as soon as possible to an outpost where he is not in position to obtain Additional Information about the project or transmit information that he already possesses. There is a second letter where they say they want to clarify what he means. Send him to siberia. Or send him anywhere but here. So thats really what pash is trying to do. There is a third win. Counterintelligence diplomacy. An attempt to use agreements and interna
Union you ever had. The answer to the question is they asked for tons of enriched uranium. Of course the white house agreed because diplomacy carried the day. But groves got in the middle of it. Groves went berserk, as you can expect, went to george marshall. Groves was one person as a onestar general that could walk into George Marshalls office screaming and throwing stuff and not get courtmartialed for it. He went into the office screaming bloody murder. Convinced marshall of the stupid idea. Then convinced stimson this is a really stupid idea. Groves got in the middle, slowed it down and eventually conceded as a compromise to give them one kilogram of enriched uranium. 2. 2 pounds which you cant do a whole lot with. This is like 10 refined uranium, too. You couldnt even make a Nuclear Reactor out of this. You need about 80 , 90 refinement of uranium to make a bomb. So, yes, he was very much they were very much looking to please the soviets because they were allies, but there was no
The house live on cspan and the senate live on cspan2. And with the new congress youll have the best access on the x] cspan networks with the most extensive coverage anywhere. ÷ track the gop as it leads on capitoh22wr rp er4bnt n say as events 0u [nunfold on tv, radio, and the web. Next on American History tv, author and journalist howard blum describes german espionage in the u. S. With a focus on the olhq years 1915 to 1917. R zn before america entered world war i. Nyax germanys secret hunt for the war innn the first teariest cell in5v r american, hei german spiesaorengaged in sabotage, germ warfare andu 9t assassinations l÷ attemptsbwnh an effort to prevent the u. S. From ÷2i 9u ay he also profiles nypd inspector tom cunning who helped develop a modern counterterrorism strategy. This event was hosted by the new York Military affai i,a mystery and the birth of hollywood and the crime of the century in 2008. A floor of heaven, a true tale of the last frontier and the yukon gold ru