as an american president felt hiroshima and nagasaki and hamburg and dresden were in a moral. i doubt very seriously if they would say that. and houston's problem is that one of the great myths and truths the russian people have is the great patriotic war that we were victims of her and just atrocities they fought back and basically won the war of the concept and defeated fascism and that is one of the great myths of legends and truths that vladimir putin will not take that on. but i will say he did have that movie shown. it had subtitles but it was an excellent film. if he is going to part ways. [laughter] let's encourage good behavior. >> host: we have bass flute hope and e-mails based on your book churchill hiller and the unnecessary war and what you have written about america's role in the middle east and israel's role 21 sure. i don't know if they read my book churchill, hitler and the unnessaunnecessa ry war. what i say is the war itself was a necessary and describes what happened in the holocaust when is it called? there is a chapter in there that talks about the losses

that is easy for us to imagine especially after nagasaki and hiroshima. but we have done a we have good. it is harder for us to imagine if the explosion of a billion pistons every minute can do damage to the same kind of scale but that is us, a big. that question of how we have become that is the most interesting question the one that will define the one that washington has yet to successfully grapple with if we will have some kind of future. the clear transition to get the world to wise up to put a price on carbon for the damage that it causes to the environment and when that happens when the united nations get it together in a serious way then we may begin to see real work that we already see around the edges, the beginning and things like the local food movement, though last agricultural sense showed for the first time in 150 years the number of farmers in america actually increase but not to decline this but that is good news is a demand for good food grown by our neighbors but that means to expand dramatically in only expands when the economic signal

this new book on hiroshima, the one that's possibly a movie on, that's an extremely good book. i have to admit i've been reading michelle malkin's culture of corruption which i think is a very good book. another good study of president obama that i think is very valuable. so i read very generally. and i read fiction as well as nonfiction. i read some old fiction. i've recently been going back and reading a lot of the old crime books. you know, the maltese falcon. i read broadly all the time. >> do you know yet what your next nonfiction project will be? >> i'm talking with simon schuster about a couple of different projects. i'm thinking very seriously about another book on oil. remember, i wrote a black gold stranglehold, very cofer. -- controversial. oil is not dinosaur soup. it's abiotic. it's not made by fossil fuels. i'd like to advance that in another book. and simon schuster is talking to me about another book on obama. maybe we'll write a comprehensive book on obama after a couple years in office. >> thank you very much for your time. >> thank you very much. >> host: wel

on august 6, on the anniversary of the day of the first atomic bomb dropped, i will visit hiroshima. there i will say, once again, we stand for a world free of nuclear weapons. five years later, the world still lives under the nuclear shadow. how long must we wait to rid ourselves of this threat? how long will be keep passing the problem on to succeeding generations, to our children? five years ago, we gathered here for a similar review conference and said, plain and simple, this time we canno and must do bette. we have the choice to leave a legacy of fear and inaction, or to act with vision and courage, and the leadership. excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, the nuclear non- proliferation treaty is one of the most important multinational accord in history. it is a cornerstone of the nonproliferation regime. it enjoys universal membership. we need this regime as much as ever. the nuclear threat remains real. it has evolved in new and various forms. that is why you are here. the world's people want more from us, and more progress on disarmament, more arms cuts, and more transparency.