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i will be up for re-election in 2018. i am taking john warner as my role model. if he saw something happy in his party he did not like he said include me out. i am not supporting oliver north. i use his longevity. also his willingness to do what he thought was right. along with my father-in-law he used them as examples. would serving as president of the senate give you a better platform? i have a good platform right now. i am a happy senator. i am doing a ton of work for hillary to try to get her elected. i was one of the earlier supporters of barak obama. if president obama lost to senator mccain i would have been disappointed but it would not have represented a change in the fundamentals of the country. but we have issues on the table of should you bring torture back. freedom of religious worship and turn it on its head and punish people. should we use a tar brush to paint everybody from a recent immigrant to a federal judge as negative because they are latino. th ....
the history channel, the discovery channel, national geographic channel, and he is really one of our most popular lecturers. today we have asked him to speak , on the revolutions in military affairs which will give you a , quick survey of military history from the 13th century up to today. all in one hour, so i m sure you will enjoy. please welcome paul springer. [applause] mr. springer: good morning. i would like to extend a thank you to dale and alan, the new york historical society and the policy research institute. both are wonderful organizations i support and love working with. it is a great opportunity to speak to all of you today. i will see if i can keep you terrified for the rest of the weekend with some military robotics information here. but i am an historian, by definition that means i have to back up way to far to tell you the beginning of the story. before i get rolling, as i work for the air force do not worry , about reading the small disclaimer at the ....
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 it s just another weapon so what s 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? it s 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. that s the term they use, bonus effect with your atomic weapons. in 1947 they ll 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 g ....
hosted this 90-minute event. now it s a pleasure to introduce my colleague and friend, paul springer, who is a senior fellow of the foreign policy research institute, but also from his day job at the air command and staff college in alabama. he also taught at west point. he s the author of many books and many coming out on cyber war, military robotics, the history of prisoners of war and a load of other topics. he s been on cnn, npr, history channel, discovery channel, national geographic channel, and he s one of our most popular speakers. we ve asked him to speak on military affairs, which will give you a quick survey of military history from the 13th century, all the way up to today all in an hour, so i m sure you will enjoy. please welcome paul springer. [ applause ] good morning. good morning. i d like to extend a thank you to dale and allen, from the new york historical society and the foreign policy research institute, both wonderful organizations that i s ....
this was recorded in clifton park, new york. it is about an hour and 10 minutes. good morning everyone. welcome to the clifton park has half-moon public library. we are very pleased to have david pietrusza to talk about his latest book 1948 harry truman s improbable victory and the year that transformed america. david is the author of a number of books and he is here to talk about his book about 1920 the year of six presidents, 1960 lbj versus jfk versus nixon, and ted williams my life of pictures. he has also written and produced a wma hq documentary local heroes, baseball and capital district diamonds. reviewed for his hairy german book talk about how likely it is, eliminating portraits of portrait support candidates and the even-handed appraisal of truman is especially compelling. the journey he takes is to election day is one he is definitively lead in his past his work has been compared to theodore white s classic them a king of the president series. after thre ....