Television and online, cspan is your unfiltered view of government so you can make up your own mind. Brought to as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. Brian brian here is a piece of video of you on this network in 1979. [video clip] at the recent government report concerning the threemile island, the government concedes that one out of 10 people will eventually die of cancer in the threemile island area. Brian do you remember that time almost 40 years ago and have you changed your thinking . Michio i remember that very vividly. I am a theoretical physicist and i work with the theories of albert einstein. Being before a Television Camera was a new experience but when the threemile island to happen, ever was that we needed a scientist about the site for this mess to the American People. So they contacted me and i said to myself this why i do for a what i do for a living. Im a physicist. I said to myself i will get on National Television and National Radio because the si
We know they are buried in secret. We know that in the summer of 2014 one of the most popular organizations in russia was the mother of russian soldiers. Because some of those mothers we are talking about russian soldiers dying and dead boss they were made an illegal organization, they were allowed. We know that family members to talk about their sons or brothers or whatever it is dying as onduty soldiers in ukraine they are threatened, we know the reporters who written about this have faced unpleasant circumstances. So its real. Its real. We also know that first of all the fighting in done boss has not gone away scores of fire incidents every day. There are ukrainian casualties most weeks and certainly every month several or more ukrainian deaths including very recently. We dont have very good information on deaths on our side for obvious reasons. But it is true that there been no major of essence. We know that that offensive a whirl as the offense in the airport of fall of 2014 were
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Geophysical association cohosted this event. Good evening. Im david ferriero. Its a thrill to welcome you here. Whether youre here in the room with us or participating through facebook or youtube. And a special welcome to our cspan audience. Im pleased you could join us for tonights Program Small steps and giant leaps how apollo 11 shaped our understanding of earth and beyond. Tonights program is presented in parer inship with the American Geophysical union. Its made possible in part by the National Archives foundation through the generous support of the boeing company. We thank them for our support. For the next four days we are commemorating the 50th anniversary of the historic flight of apollo 11 and the first moon landing. Tomorrow night, well screen the recent celebrated documentary apollo 11 draft frd newly discovered video and audio recordings here at the National Archives. Following the film, bill barry will moderate a discussion with director todd douglas miller, thomas peters
In california on a hot afternoon in pasadena for our monthly Public Lecture series. Im preston dikes. 50 years ago three human beings set out on a journey across a quarter million miles of space to the moon. Two of them set down in a fragile Landing Craft on the lunar surface, and one of them stepped into history uttering a phrase we all know by heart. For that one human being to make that one small step took the focussed efforts of hundreds of thousands of people over the course of a decade. An industry and universities and in government. For their part, jpl and cal tech didnt play the leading roles in the apollo effort, but for all who contributed to apollo, as for all of us who play even a small role in the Space Program today, the true reward lay not in the glory of the moment but in contributing to something greater. Something that mattered. Jpl ease primary role then and now is to help lead the Robotic Exploration of the solar system including technologies that contributed to apo