Steve olson is a seattlebased writer and author of several books, 2016s eruption, the untold story of mount saint helens, the Washington State book award and named one of the best nonfiction books of 2016 by that aforementioned multinational conglomerate. In 2003 mapping Human History genes race and common origins was nominated for the National Book award. His work is featured in atlantic monthly, science, smithsonian and other magazines. He is a consultant writer for the National Academy of sciences and other National Scientific organizations. Kathleen Philip Mccain is a poet and educator in seattle and the author of three poetry collections including 2012 plume, and addition of nuclear aid songs of innocence and experience inspired by hanford. She was also the Washington State abshes currently serving on the board of jack straw a local audio art studio and cultural incubator. They are here tonight to talk about steves book the apocalypse plutonium in the making of the atomic age. Ple
Thanks for joining us today. I am tom called, director of the center for International Security and cooperation at stanford and am also a senior fellow at the institute for International Studies at stanford and we are honored to have William Perry and tom collina to discusstheir brandnew book. You can see the title on the slide at your screen. The button the new Nuclear Arms Race and president ial power which puts readers at the front row and offers policy descriptions for a safer future. As many know doctor perry served as the 19th us secretary of defense in the Clinton Administration and is a worldrenowned expert on national security, defense policy, arms control and has a long history here at stanford. He is a senior fellow at fsi and the Hoover Institution and was codirector of fsis center for International Security and cooperation from 1988 to 93 and completed his bachelors and masters degree at stanford which is impressive to me because i didnt get into stanford as an undergradua
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Night in toledo, ohio. President trump as we begin the new year, our economy is booming, wages are soaring. Workers are thriving and americas future has never ever looked brighter. We are th the envy of every couy in the world. We created 7 million brandnew jobs since our election. Lou the president s economy strong, growing. A symbol of his commitment to making america great. Rising wages for our middle class and those who aspire to it, and the lowest Unemployment Rate in a half century. President trump boasting americas economic strength will assure his America First National Security policies are always backed by the strongest possible military might. Today the Trump Administration moving ahead with sanctions against 17 metal producers and Mining Companies, as well as 8 senior officials of the islamic republic. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin making it clear more sanctions will come until iran puts aside its aggression towards u. S. En. And. If we didnt have these sanctions in pla
They have been buying into taiwan media. So they own it. That means the Disinformation Campaign is embed into taiwan politics. And it has been going on for years. It stepped up in the days before the election where there is all sorts of news that is untrue. Lou that would be like allowing big tech and big telecom. That would be silly to prevent such a thing. There was a bill passed the past few days about interference in the election. Lou it seems a little close to the event. This was controversial because the Media Companies in taiwan were against it because necessity were getting a lot of the money from beijing. At the end of the day i dont know if it will affect the election because of what happened in hong kong. Giving her a 10 to 15 lead in the polls. Lou you expect her could be reelected. Lets turn to hong kong. We have seen very little out of hong kong. Is that because its calm or is it because of benign neglect over unrest in hong kong. Whats had an important effect is the pneu