Successful businessman working together with his wife. They established a very Generous Foundation which we are the beneficiaries of, not the only, but one of the beneficiariebene. What he gave to us before he passed away was to endow a special series and bringing the best and the brightest historians to share their works and insight with. So a sincere thanks to the mason family including the mason son and to their foundation. So im very pleased to have the opportunity here to introduce our next presenter as one of the most distinguished historians and in the world on the subject of world war ii. David kennedy received his under graduate at stanford and graduate training at yale. And founding director of the bill of the American West at Stanford University where he talk ta taught for more than 40 years. It is more than we have time for today. You have information on your program so i encourage you to look at that as well. He is much admired and loved by his students, by his peers and a
Successful businessman working together with his wife. They established a very Generous Foundation which we are the beneficiaries of, not the only, but one of the beneficiariebene. What he gave to us before he passed away was to endow a special series and bringing the best and the brightest historians to share their works and insight with. So a sincere thanks to the mason family including the mason son and to their foundation. So im very pleased to have the opportunity here to introduce our next presenter as one of the most distinguished historians and in the world on the subject of world war ii. David kennedy received his under graduate at stanford and graduate training at yale. And founding director of the bill of the American West at Stanford University where he talk ta taught for more than 40 years. It is more than we have time for today. You have information on your program so i encourage you to look at that as well. He is much admired and loved by his students, by his peers and a
There are 50 heads of state gathered here in washington, trying to deal with the question of Nuclear Terrorism and how to secure the highly enriched. Lements around the world that is a nuclear reactors, that is in hospitals, universities, research centers. There is the possibility of dirty bombs, the possibility of terrorists getting a hold of this. That is a small part of the Nuclear Material out there. Most of the material is in the weapons programs. This gathering is not going to be dealing with weapons issues. You might recall that in the spring of 2009, president obama made an important speech in prague that called for nuclear abolition. One could say it was the high point of the obama presidency. It is what helped him get the nobel peace prize, which a lot of people have urged him to give back since then. We need nuclear abolition. He said the United States has to lead the effort. It is the only country that has ever used Nuclear Weapons and warfare against another country. That
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With the idea Nuclear Warfare is something completely different. They are using the models based upon the world war ii experiences, not upon this idea that 20 kilitons and 30 kilitons is more bang for your buck. Many supporters say its just another weapon so whats the big deal . What difference does it make if the source of ignition is conventional or fission . What difference does it make . The first one they put together is called pincture. It will target 20 areas with 50 bombs. The air force comes to the conclusion that what is a city . Its a collection of industry. Well, if you have 20 kiliton bomb, if you drop it between the two of them you get a two for one. You get a bonus effect. Thats the term they use, bonus effect with your atomic weapons. In 1947 theyll come out with broiler that will drop 34 bombs on 24 cities, seven moscow, two leningrad, and they expect to have 100, 200 bombs in their supply line they can drop for later events. Then p 1948 and they are going to drop 210