Appreciate you all being here. Tonight we are featuring an acclaimed journalist in new york author Janice Kaplan in her fascinating book. She will be in conversation with kelly the ceo the women spawned of central ohio and this is going to be an illuminating evening. I will tell you that right now. I want to thank our partner, and our Wonderful Community partners who have the school for girls. I will introduce janice and kelly just a moment the first just one ask you to silence your phones or any other noisemakers you might have read. [laughter]. So we can just hear everything. I hope many of you have visited what we mentioned. We are right in the street and we would like any of you and invite you to come and see us and him and browse. Women open for just over three years and with hosted 300 events. [applause]. Besides being a fullservice independent bookstore, we want to connect the community. Thats exactly what were doing tonight and you receive the program when he came it in order q
[ applause ] good morning. Can you hear me all right . Clear as a bell, i hope. Well, its lovely to be here for another conference. Each one i come to seems to be even better than the last. Now we have kevin, kevin ruane, here, who has written this very, very good book, churchill and the bomb. So i one of my grandfathers best quotations, and there are so many to choose from is this one. The farther backward we can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. We think, most of us, that history is past. Done and dusted. Over with. Just a memory. But history has a way of coming back to bite us. As Ronald Reagan said, here we go again. I remember when the cold war was over, but then it wasnt. I remember farther back when people were scared of the abomb and then, worse, of the hbomb. And now, today, the specter of nuclear war has once again reared its ugly head. Kevin ruane is professor of modern history at Canterbury Christ Church University in United Kingdom. He has written quite a fe
A. M. Eastern wednesday morning. Join the discussion. Sunday night, astronaut scott kelly recalls the voyages into space in his book endurance. He sinlt viewed by nasa administrator charles bolden. Yours was the third servicing mission. Having been part of that mission and having become an official hubble hugger, talk to me about what you believe the legacy of hubble is. Or does it have a legacy . I think its incredible. Its been up there you would know better than i how long its been up there. 27 years. 27 years. To have a telescope. Getting to 30. Doing that kind of science on a daily basis and, you know, letting them get the stuff most of you dont see and the Public Engagement that is provided and let people kind of get a sense for, you know, where we are in the universe which is pretty insignificant. If you consider, you know, those images. I think its been a great success. It was a great First Mission for me. Afterwards sunday night at 9 00 eastern on book tv on cspan2. Winston ch
American Foreign Relations as well as the American History book prize. It was a 1976 finalist for both the nationalist book award and the Pulitzer Prize and the current paper back edition of a world destroyed is subtitled hiroshima and its legacies. Visiting as the fund visiting professor of American History. And is a visiting professor at wellesley college. Hes taught at uc berkeley and the university of pennsylvania. Hes received fellowships from the Macarthur Guggenheim sloan and rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the humanities. He was a visiting scholar at the institute for the advanced stud and the Woodrow Wilson National Center for scholars. In 2007, he was inducted into the American Academy of arts and sciences. So please join me now in a warm welcome for professor martin sherwin. [ applause ] okay, thank you, ruth. My mother wrote that int introducti introduction. I hope you liked it. It was more folsom because my father didnt get a chance to edit it. Im re
Questionsy get some focusing on the current russia. Ties with he has taught extensively, including at the university of of then history u. S. Intelligence, diplomatic oftory, cold war, history science. U. S. Army veteran. Balkans where he assisted in both civilian and military intelligence activities. So were just delighted to have you as our speaker, as the first speaker. Please help me welcome vince houghton. [applause] thank you, peter. Thank all of you for coming here today. To get to talk about the atomic spies and nuclear intelligence, this is my field. This is also my passion. I try to do everything i can to talk about this to anyone who wants to listen. So it is nice to have people to listen. I really fell in love, probably a weird word when you talk about the Nuclear Annihilation of the United States. But i fell in but i fell in love with the intricacies of the weapons system that is the worst the world has ever seen but the same time might be primarily responsible for us not