might expect to help them. but then the side effects of the radiation will be the side effects of the cancer, and the department of defense wasn t particularly interested in the effects of radiation on people with metastatic cancer, they wanted to know what the effects of radiation were on a healthy 23-year-old pilot. and that could be best studied by irradiating people whose karch cancers were not going to respond to the radiation. most of the patients who were irradiated were poor. most of the patients who were irradiated were african-american. all of them had cancer. some of them weren t all that sick. some of them were still ambulatory, some of them were still going to work. the radiation had some pretty serious effects. out of the 90 people who were irradiated, 21 of them were dead within a month. and here s what s there are many things bothersome about this. we know that when you irradiate people, they have side effects. you can get nauseated, you can get very nauseat
kagan s article and in the new republic of he s a well-known intellectual. maybe that s why he got it in the new republic. other people can write a counter view. if we re unhappy with the exceptional view of triumphalism, that s what we historians should try to do without getting caught in our own ideological biases, i would suggest. i m going to make half the panel feel old. i was in high school, i was a freshman when the wall fell. sorry. at least you weren t there when the wall went up. i don t know where my parents were. let me play the role of splitter you suggested there was a contrast. you can say on the whop happened those that tried to stand against the crowds with violence, then sort of succeeded, but those who acceded to the crowd, kind of their regions went away. where do we put romania in that? i think the roamanians like to be different. i think we have to put them in a third category because we should raoul that ceausescu did not have the opportunity to
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Future, they re avoiding the present. that s the danger. if you live in chicago, you can go down the street to another neighborhood and see and see those distinctions. or just stay in your neighborhoods in evanston and not see it at all. and you can read ira katznelson and ta-nehisi coates. i thank you so much for your work. ira katznelson s newest book is fear itself. again, on your newsstands is the case for reparations. coming up next, what s putting babies lives at risk of the and how new york s first lady sparked a national conversation, lots of national conversations this week. more nerdland at the top of the hour. .and we ll replace destroyed or stolen items with brand-new versions. we put members first. join the nation. nationwide is on your side
Of african-americans and recommend to congress policy remedies based on the study s findings. representative john conyers joins me now from detroit. also at the table here in studio are ira katz nelson and the author of when affirmative action was white. also professor at the university of pennsylvania and author of sites of slavery, citizenship and racial democracy in the post civil rights imagination. congressman, i want to start with you. tell us what hr-40 is. mr. coates in the atlantic piece comes to at a minimum what we must do is take up hr-40. so tell us what it is. well, it s a bill that would set up a commission of seven people that would study the lingering negative effects of the institution of slavery on