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So thank you all for sticking around for our panel and im sure it comes as no surprise that we would be discussing north korea today given the increased tensions on the Korean Peninsula and the north korean policy review. That President Trump has just completed. sover north korea watchers, when he 17 has been an interesting year. The President Trump decided to review policy for north korea shortly after his inauguration and he came back with a policy that emphasizes maximum pressure and engageme...

With the latest history news. While working at the Rand Corporation in 1967, Daniel Ellsberg became a consultant to the Defense Department in the white house, giving him access to classified and topsecret documents. He photocopied a study that later became known as the pentagon papers. In 1971 he gave those documents to the new york times. Coming up next, part one of a twopart interview with Daniel Ellsberg. He talks about his opinions on the vietnam war and the leaking of the pentagon papers. T...

I entered Henry Kissinger’s classroom at Harvard University 58 years ago, in 1965. Indeed, I have been learning from him ever since.

In this April interview with a longtime friend, Daniel Ellsberg, most widely known for leaking the Pentagon Papers, explains why he wanted to focus on his main concern in life, nuclear war. Ellsberg died today at age 92.

Culturally competent medical care is needed at Guantanamo now.

The line from trump -- vietnam to watergate and the two of them to a kind of anything to win trumpism is just clear. thats what weve tried to do in this podcast. >> and history does repeat itself. jon meacham, weve been talking about the trump administration getting data records from reporters. i remember mort halperin, they had their home phone line bugged for 20, 21 months. he was a member of the nixon administration and they bugged his phone for 21 months. and now were finding out that don mc...

Treaties, Numbers and Norms Quote of the week: “An ounce of practice is worth a thousand words.” – Mahatma Gandhi Let’s face it: we arms controllers are attached to the written and spoken word. Last week’s post dealt with the words used to declare intention regarding the use of nuclear weapons. This week is about the written word. Treaties are our crown jewels. John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev proved that it was possible for ideological and geopolitical rivals to agree to reduce ...