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Both so i thank you so much for coming tonight. Thank you to everyone here at the lyceum. And then thank you for everyone on zoom and joining through cspan as well. Before we start i would like to inform everyone that this lecture will be recorded and available for later viewing. My name is Angelique Moss and im the chairwoman of the alexandria khan sister City Committee. We are a volunteer City Committee that promotes educational and Cultural Exchange between the city of kahn and normandy and the city of alexandria here in virginia. This is the first of two programs that we will be hosting this year for the 78th anniversary of dday. Tonight is my pleasure to welcome back dr. Holian. For our 12th annual dday commemoration lecture dr. Kim bernard holian was a prof ....
Inform everyone that this lecture will be recorded and available for later viewing. My name is Angelique Moss and im the chairwoman of the alexandria khan sister City Committee. We are a volunteer City Committee that promotes educational and Cultural Exchange between the city of kahn and normandy and the city of alexandria here in virginia. This is the first of two programs that we will be hosting this year for the 78th anniversary of dday. Tonight is my pleasure to welcome back dr. Holian. For our 12th annual dday commemoration lecture dr. Kim bernard holian was a professional historian with the us army for 34 years where he received commendations from the late John Marshall secretary of the army and preside ....
Residential quarters. So how do you keep workers from giving away secrets . In the usual ways. Security officials made workers signed security posts and had to renew them continuously. In richland, a wiretap phones, they read peoples mail and the cultivator ranks of informers, especially in the really super team ready recreation programs and in the school. The kgb took similar measures. Selection, security posts, surveillance, and they took it even farther. A lot to the people and for the first 10 years. They could not leave without permission. They could not leave this gilded page for the most part. But these measures were just the first circle of security, really. Ironically the men who were charged with building the First Nuclear weapons in the world were really concerned in the correspondence about schools, housing, recreational programs, health care. More so even sometimes than chemical processing plants and nuclear reactors. ....
And turner communities into different kinds of communities. Ill explain what i mean, but first i want to tell you why that into this project. I dont know who this tourist is, but shes pretty. I went into doesnt forward to the chernobyl zone and wrote an article about it. An added or contacted me and wanted me to read the whole book about this Pivotal Moment in history. Theres about five books about chernobyl. I looked into it and i realize theres these two places in the world, these two plutonium plants that have more. Chernobyl is a household word. But whos heard of my word in this, handford. [inaudible] was there last summer. So i thought maybe id rather tell a story about these two places. As i started looking into it, i was concerned, why dont we know much about it . Of course, chernobyl was an accident that occurred in the course of a couple of days. The cameras rolled the next couple of months. It was a camera ready event. S ....
84 coming tonight. This book is about to cities can be carried out . This book is about the first to cities to produce plutonium there is an american one and a soviet one the american one is called richland the seven the russian soviet what was called ozersk. What is so important that our good my book plutopia did change their landscape been wasted of yet to fully digest to militarize the landscape and to turn our communities into different types of communities. I will explain the first i will tell you why i got into this project. Item of this tourist but in 2004 i went to Richard Noble and i wrote an article about it is the editor contacted we wanted me to write a whole book about it as a Pivotal Moment of history. So i looked into it and realize there to places in the world that spilled almost to where 10 times more radiation into the environment than chernobyl. That is stra ....