Pandemic, essential workers in the United States have continued in their daily jobs to care for and protect americans, to produce and deliver food and essential goods, and to uphold our nations Critical Infrastructure. These men and women, our moms and dads, brothers and sisters, are putting the livelihoods of their fellow americans ahead of their own. Each and every morning despite the pandemic, they wake up and they go to work. In this fight against the invisible enemy, the critical logistics operators, the supply workers, medical professionals, and many others who are on the front lines responding to coronavirus could not be more important to our victory. They truly are our heroes. Folks, our nation cannot weather this pandemic without our essential workforce. They first and foremost deserve our gratitude. So today we want to say thank you. Thank you to our doctors, our nurses, and our Health Care Workers who see firsthand the seriousness of this disease yet put their own health and
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Cspan2. Kate brown writes about the two cities, richland in washington and ozersk in russia where plutonium was first produced. Because the programs to produce the plutonium or highly secret, both communities were largely insulated from the outside world. The accidents and corruption that occurred in both places were unknown for decades. We learn about them now on booktv. Thanks for coming tonight. This book is about to get. The first two cities in the world that made the telling of [inaudible] can you hear me . So this book is about the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium, and there is an american one and a soviet knockoff. The american one is called richland your facility one was called ozersk, and whats so important about these places, i argue in this book plutopia that they changed our landscape in ways we get to fully digest. These plants help militarize or landscape and to sully them and turned opportunities into different kind of communities. Ill explain what i me
And turner communities into different kinds of communities. Ill explain what i mean, but first i want to tell you why that into this project. I dont know who this tourist is, but shes pretty. I went into doesnt forward to the chernobyl zone and wrote an article about it. An added or contacted me and wanted me to read the whole book about this Pivotal Moment in history. Theres about five books about chernobyl. I looked into it and i realize theres these two places in the world, these two plutonium plants that have more. Chernobyl is a household word. But whos heard of my word in this, handford. [inaudible] was there last summer. So i thought maybe id rather tell a story about these two places. As i started looking into it, i was concerned, why dont we know much about it . Of course, chernobyl was an accident that occurred in the course of a couple of days. The cameras rolled the next couple of months. It was a camera ready event. Same as fukushima. These places, these plutonium sides, t