Host a conversation on military readiness and the threat we face. Od, served two decades in the marine corps. Assessing military strength is a major undertaking. How does the Heritage Foundation try to do that . Gather all Public Information we can come across. Thecial testimonies from pentagon, acquisition reports on major programs. General news reporting from the community and our personal contacts in the services and pentagon. We gather all that all year long, go through analysis and writing processes, prepare last years information and this years and then issue a report card on the military. This year on a scale of one to five we would give it a marginal. We feel the u. S. Military at large is marginally able to meet the demands of National Security requirements. Meaning they can handle one major conflict in one part of the world, but not much more than that. We think it needs to be more than that because the u. S. Has global interests and responsibilities. Host the u. S. Military
Investigative journalist Leslie Lesley blume who looks at John Hersheys failure to report on the federal impact of hiroshima. And a conversation about the soviet unions role in the nuremberg trials. Good evening. Welcome to the ninth virtual program. We will be discussing the true impact of the atomic bomb. We are honored to host speaker lesley blume who is the author of the new book fallout the hiroshima coverup and the reporter who revealed it to the world joined in conversation by writer adam gopnik. I am bo mendez, manager of programming at the historical society. Welcome to our physical location. Im honored to our virtual programs, and look forward to having you join us for more. The things we have coming up, things we look forward to, interested in joining us. Hosting next week to teach out, anticorruption expert in new York State Attorney general candidate sharing her new book break them up. They will be exploring the connection between big money and its impact on our democracy
Coronavirus pandemic plus taking its toll on Mental Health new Research Says one in 5 of those infected with the coronavirus risk and xyzzy depression and in some of. The sports is the head of english football apologizes for using a racist slur well speaking about the game in his country. Now russia is sending peacekeeping troops to the disputed region of new gonna karabakh after a deal was reached between armenia and azerbaijan to end weeks of fighting there they are being deployed along the socalled line of contact in the going to carry back and or remain there for at least 5 years there have been celebrations in azerbaijan as this truce with the armenia hand over control of 3 districts and return very forces will stop advancing towards the city stop on a cast. Iron and. I was advised them that im sure that every citizen of azerbaijan believes that these days these moments are the happiest days of their lives im happy to have signed this historic document im happy that we are returni
From the state of virginia. Find a full Television Schedule online at booktv. Org or consult your program guide. Will come to our Cato Institute p. J. Orourke. We will take questions from the program and you can submit them at the Cato Institute website, facebook, twitter or youtube and use the cato evidence. We have many distinguished scholars at the Cato Institute constitutional studies, Foreign Policy, education and so on but perhaps our most distinguished scholar, at least if we can agree, it depends on what the meaning of distinguished is, our Research Fellow, p. J. Orourke. I would say ive sort of grown up with p. J. When i was in college college, National Lampoon which he edited and i remember quite a few funny bits from National Lampoon but i cant quote them because they all involve drug use, ethnic stereotypes are gender relations which are all forbidden now. He moved on to Rolling Stone where hes Foreign Affairs desk chief which is totally cool because they paid him to travel
Distinguished is. I had sort of grown up with him when i was when in college. The most popular magazine on campus i cant quote them because i think they all involve drug use at note ethnic stereotypes. And theyre all for bid now. He was the Foreign Affairs desk chief which was totally cool because they paid him to travel wherever he wanted. But why he wanted to travel there. It was always kind of mystifying. And then as he moved out of the rock n roll stage and into the age of sober reflection he became a correspondent for the sober is magazine in america. He wrote about medicare reform Social Security reform. Campaign advance reform. And now as he moved into the age of rearing about retirement and College Tuition he is at a it ran an article by me. It is online and it is free and it is called american consequences. By my count. Pj is the author of 20 bucks parliament of horrors. All the trouble in the world and eat the rich. He is more one of the funniest writers around. He has more c