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 wasnt 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 23yearold 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 africanamerican. All of them had cancer. Some of them werent 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 heres whats 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 nauseated. But the departm
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 as really t
Of booknotes. Richard perle appeared on booknotes in 2004 to discuss his book an end to evil how to win the war on terror. Mr. Perle argues the u. S. Should sever ties with saudi arabia disregard the opinion of our european allies and overthrow the government of iran. Cspan Richard Perle, coauthor of an end to evil how to win the war on terror, you wrote on page 195, ultimately the blame for our failed terrorism policies of the 1990s belongs to the weakwilled leaders who could not muster the nerve for decisive action. Who are you talking about . Guest im talking about the Clinton Administration for sure, and i dont think the Previous Administration was as robust as it should have been. Cspan you mean George Herbert walker bush. Guest thats right. Cspan why are they weakwilled . Guest they failed to respond in a manner that the terrorists would recognize as as a real defense of this country. So there was one attack after another. And the weakness of the response only convinced the terro
Conference, but you need something to tie the room together. Why dont you have a leading scholar come in and present a manuscript in progress and really bring some of the leading scholars and practitioners who 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 worlds 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. E end of the cold war an associate professor of history and the director of the center for president ial history at Southern Methodist university. He is the author of numerous books. Includehe most recent 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
Is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. The evidence is now unmistakable. Aspects of the u. S. Economy after a long and difficult period of darkness appear to be getting more robust. And while there are lots of numbers out to prove the point of an improving economy, problem is, of course, its hardly being felt by all americans. But first, the good news, and its substantial. Here are the stock indexes at closing time today. All three closed up. Stocks, by the way, are nearing an alltime high on wall street. On the housing front, u. S. Builders started work on new homes last month at the fastest rate since the summer of 08. And finally, the number of americans seeking unemployment has fallen to a fiveyear low. We start off by getting more on all of it tonight from nbcs john yang in chicago. John, good evening. Reporter good evening, brian. The signs are small, and theyre far from conclusive. And we have had had false starts before. But economists are pointing to data that