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
will, within the communist world would react to remove those like gorbachev who tried to push the world forward through with reform. and ultimately, we see this fear coming true in august of 1991 when there was a conservative coup, at that point without very likelihood of success. but nonetheless, the great fear that that could generate into civil war, ethnic violence and the like. so i argue that there are really two moments, therefore, when president bush essentially took off the hypocratic gloves, if you will. the first was with reunification of germany. he believed in a nato context it was necessary to keep future sta bill nit europe because having nato in europe allowed the americans to also stay in europe and he believed firmly the only thing that kept the peace since 1945 in europe was the american presence. therefore he pushed hard for reunification an the terms he needed which was keeping germany in nato. and the second moment was the gulf war. when this strikes me a
can critique that manuscript before it is too late? we have all been there when our book has come out and you participate in a panel and people always say, you should have done this, you should have done that. today, we do have one of the world s leading scholars, jeff engel, who i will say a word about first. jeff is presenting his manuscript very much in progress. the title is when the world seemed new: george h.w. bush and the end of the cold war. jeff is an associate professor of history and the director of the center for presidential history at southern methodist university. he is the author of numerous books. two of the most recent include into the desert and the fall of the berlin wall. and we are really fortunate to have jeff with us. he is going to say a few words about his manuscript. he put a few chapters of it up online. i know that some of you had a chance to look at it. ira said, you really should get a practitioner, someone who knows a thing or two about