i'm joined by robert alvarez senior scholar at the institute for policy studies for five years mr alvarez served as one of the summits primary step experts on nuclear weapons and helped establish the environmental cleanup program for the department of energy he also led teams to north korea to establish control of nuclear weapons materials in that country in light of the largest radiation detection at the ichi plant japan is dealing with what may well turn out to be one of the worst nuclear crises on record to share his expertise on that and that whole spectrum of situations mr alvarez joins me here in the studio robert alvarez welcome to the program thank you for having me on your show thanks for joining us you know people who have done things as consequential as you have in your life were really just popped out of nowhere i'm curious how did you get on this career path what brought you through to this one. well i mean you weren't bacteria facts were were cracked words. before i. joined in some for policy studies about eight years ago i was a senior policy adviser to the secretary of ene

have been short changing our policies of safe and secure storage to china it's time for a plug and mr alvarez that we're out of time with thanks so much for being with us thank you for having me on appreciate it coming up the war of the middle class continues as well as the bombings in libya just a few topics will knock out in our weekly rog. let's not forget that we had an apartheid museum right here. i think the feet of one hundred twelve. whenever the government says to keep you safe get ready because of their freedom. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear see some other part of it and realized everything you saw. i'm sorry this is the. are you ready to rumble on the panels that i jimmy weinstein deputy editor and and the daily caller dr right erica nudie a democratic strategist here in washington d.c. and brian darling former republican strategist who now serves as the director of government studies at the heritage foundation and the sort of right to my radio show from ok let's get started for the pa

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mr. alvarez, thank you very much. >> thank you for having me on. >> all right. 15 after the hour. here's meredith. >> in the wake of japan's devastating earthquake there is new speculation that the san andreas fault in california will be the source of the next big tremor. simon winchester writes about the strong possibility in this week's "newsweek" magazine. good morning. >> good morning. >> the magazine references the scariest earthquake to come in california. last time it ruptured was in 1906 when the earthquake and subsequent fires devastated san francisco. what makes you think the timing is right for it to happen again? >> it's ee's clear that the earthquakes tend to occur in clusters. a cluster seems to have happened in the last year around the pacific plates. if you think of it as a square, we have had a major earthquake in the northwestern side of the square, tokyo, three days ago it was sendai. on the 22nd of february we had christchurch in new zealand in the southwest of the square. last year we had a major earthquake in chile and the southeast of the square. the fourth