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Dont. Host why is it called area 51 . Guest big debate. I believe its called area 51 because of the original project that went on out there in 1951. Information given to me by some of the sources that i interviewed at length for that book but, of course, everything about area 51 is kind of a puzzle inside of the puzzle. Thats even debated. The actual origins, the original date, the original story of area 51. Host what was going on . Guest the Atomic Energy commission was doing lots of Nuclear Testing out there in the middle of the desert, and they wanted to keep what youre doing secret. And th...

[inaudible conversations] okay. Let me check the mic first. Can you hear in the become row . Okay. Im barbara mead. One of the founders of politics and prose and i wanted very much to come in and introduce steven bud dan ski because i enjoyed this book so much budiansky. It was such an impressive accomplishment to write this book. Stephen had to delve deep into mathematics, linguistics, engineering, as well as the technical history of codemaking and codebreaking. From those early electric calculating machines that allen touring was instrumental about, that were used during the Second World War...

That its not okay to just use people because they are dying. Some of the rationale for some of the plutonium experiments and radiation experiments and other injections was that these people are dying and we might as well get some information from them. Being ill and hospitalized did not justify that. You still have to respect them as people. So what are key lessons from the radiation experiments. Ive only scratched the surface. I hope you will go and read more about them, in arlene wilsons book, Jonathan Moreno has a wonderful book on the history of the experiments, these human irradiation exp...

They just do not have at the same level. Partly because i have grown up tied to one another was social media. They do have an experience of reality that is in part much more communityoriented then some of this in the older generation. To that extent they are more focused on issues of justice that they are on issues of self opportunity. That gives me reason for hope. So i think that sense to the extent that science is a force for justice and to the extent that being pro science and be in a nerd is cool especially in that young generation, i think we have a lot to look forward to. Join me and gi...

She is interviewed by ted olson, former solicitor general in the george w. Bush administration. Our after Words Program begins at 10 00 p. M. This evening. Ceo and president of the new york times, Mark Thompson sits down with Arianna Huffington to discuss his new book about political language. Its called enough said and we wrap up booktv in primetime at 11 00 p. M. Pulitzer prizewinning historian allen taylor examines the american revolution. Now that all happens tonight on booktv on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] okay let me check the mic first. Did you hear in the back row . Okay comment ...