Youre watching booktv on cspan2. And we are on location at george mason university. Every fall. Every fall for the book festival called fall for the book, and one of the authors u. S. Be at the book festival is Brooke Stoddard. Here is his book, world in the balance the perilous months of juneoctober 1940. Brooke stoddard, world war ii started about six months prior to your book. What was happening in europe in june 1940 . The war had started in september 1939, peter, and germany had overrun poland. Hitlers idea at this point was to invade france and knock britain out of the war thereby. With the intent later on to invade the soviet union. He hated communism. This is one thing that was really part of his agenda. He was actually going to invade france in the wintertime, ma in novemberdecember. He had to put that off because spent of 1939 . Of 1939. Because of the invasion plans fell into the hands of the french and the british, soy put off the invasion until may, and he came up with a n
Are and how important they are in our lives in a very, very busy yea library of congress and all the sponsors as well. So my book, im going to talk a little bit about the book, try not to get too chatty because i want to leave time for questions my book came out in march. It is a nonfiction book, true story of young women living in a secret government city during World War Two working on the Manhattan Project. However, they did not know that at the time. Just so everyone is on the same page, the Manhattan Project was a top secret government project during world war ii designed to harness the power of the atom, the power of fission. The Manhattan Project resulted in a firstever nuclear weapon. Its okay if you dont know that, but that is what it is. There were three main Manhattan Project sites, los alamos, new mexico, which is the one that always pops in to our head, hanford in washington state, and oak ridge tennessee which is where the majority of my book takes place. Some of that we
Do not even know about them until 2009. He was honored at an event and there is a wonderful article about him in the smithsonian magazine. If you search for george kovar, really interesting stuff. But he was in oak ridge as well. Right now the Atomic Heritage Foundation has something called manhattan voices of the Manhattan Project and they have been working on gathering oral histories for a long time and they are now starting to put them up on line. That is a tremendous project. They are just starting to put them up on line now but thats very interesting. Thanks for your work. Thank you very much. Hello. You mention there were two other sites in los alamos. Did any research touch on those communities . In hanford who perhaps may have had similar experiences if they were interested in it . That i dont think so or dont know. You have to certainly understand that most of those people in oak ridge didnt know hampered and los alamos existed until the day they found out about the bomb. Some
In arizona, living in appalling conditions. Good to have you with us. We begin with breaking if yous out of pakistan. An assault on a large and busy airport. Eight are dead. The gunman throwing hand grenades on to the tarmac in karachi, and then a gun battle brock out. All flights have been diverted. Major airports are on high alert. A karachi based journalist has been reporting on the story for several outlets and joins us by phone. Reports, we understand, indicate that 610 gunmen stormed the cargo in the vip area of the airport. What is the latest. Yes, gun battles are going on. Nine dead bodies have been taken to hospital, including security forces. Its been claimed that many have been killed. As you said, Karachi Airport is one of the busiest and large airports in the coupedry. Country. Once again eight have been killed, are the gunmen inside the airport still . Yes. There is fighting going on between the security forces. We are seeing heavy smoke and fire. Are they cargo planes on
Captive. Former army chief abdel fatah el sisi was sworn in for a 4year term and is the third man to take the role since the arab spring back in 2011. Live from doha. Hashim, el sisi is inheriting a country divided by political instability. What exactly is he planning to do about it . He said egypt will be better, safer and more prosporous. But their opponents says they are talking about the reality on the ground is challenging. He faces a mammoth task as we are going to see in this report. Reporter egypts former army chief at the pip kel of pour in the most populous country in the arab world. This is the moment his supporters have been waiting for. The swearing inin industry, he spelled out his plan for the future. Egypt will witness development at all levels. We will solve the problems of the past and we will build the egypt of the future, a powerful, just, stable, peaceful and prosperous country. Its the firsthandover ceremony in egypts history. The first time that an outgoing presi