einstein to do something about the destructive power and roosevelt consequently launched the manhattan project. the use of atomic weapons was admittedly horrifying. when the first bomb was dropped on hiroshima probably 70,000 people live on the spot. similar loss of life and three days later another bomb was dropped on nagasaki. at the same time the united states had been thinking of attacking japan with atomic weapons. an invasion of japan was being mounted. estimates were that if you had to land may be half a million would be lost. even looking from the standpoint of the japanese, the japanese have shown a willingness to take terrific casualties in the campaigns of guadalcanal, casualties that are inconceivable to us of 95% of the defenders dalia on these islands and we can imagine if the japanese were ready to fight that fiercely how they would have defended the home islands with subsequent massive military casualties. roosevelt's third role, as i mentioned earlier, is us eight morrill officer in the chief. as the commander of the people at war, convincing them that there are sacrifices in

h.r. 5987 is a bipartisan bill that will establish the manhattan project national historical park. there's a like bill, bipartisan bill, also pending in the senate. the park will encompass three locations that were integral to the tremendous engineering and human achievements of the manhattan project. the three locations are the hanniford site in my home state of washington, los alamos, in new mexico, and oak ridge, in tennessee. the vast majority of the facilities eligible to be included in this park are already owned by the federal government. they are located on lands owned and controlled by the department of energy. our nation already possesses these pieces of history. the real purpose of this bill is to officially declare the importance of preserving the history, providing access to the public, and including the unique abouts of the park service to help tell this story. currently some of these historic facilities, slated for inclusion in this park, are scheduled to be destroyed at considerable taxpayer expense. a great many local community leaders in all three states and inter

to the need a new manhattan project, ambitious engineering schemes to keep the planet will have?calls for action to save the arctic by cutting carbon emissions? >> the very question we want to discuss now with the new leader of the green party. and peter who has written a bottle of the findings on climate change. if that analysis is correct about what happened to the arctic and the consequences, there is little point in making any adjustments to our lifestyle they using to be suggesting. >> not at all. we can still make an impact in cutting are carbon emissions to. by doing that, we can act in ways that make our society better and stronger. we can invest in our future. we must do that now. we need to act and we need to act now. >> but if the effect of the melting ice cap is, that will make damn all the difference. >> what we want to do is bring industries back into britain. >> that is another point. >> what we need to do is shorten our supply change and use less fossil fuels because they admit carbon emissions. >> if the damage is done, what is the point? >> we can reduce the dam

water so how important is the water issue for and what role do these play we should have ten manhattan projects devoted to these energies and how to store them and how to develop a smart grid which is exactly what china is doing with probably over a trillion dollars water i mean water solar. that you make from silver using the sun with silver is one of the few energy sources on this earth that doesn't require water when really doesn't require water either but it does require a lot of other commodities but basically photobook talents where silver is a very very important metal really doesn't require any water so what are we doing we're fracking and we're competing with the farmers for water and we may be ruining our water supply no one knows we're into you know the unknown and we're risking a precious resource when there's sitting out there and the energy source that you can use that doesn't require water that's clean that is so plentiful it's unbelievable i think got enough sun strikes the earth every minute to get us five the earth's need for your third layer of search certainly lots of sun we

far-reaching projects like the north sea, the new deal , the tennessee valley authority, the manhattan project , the united nations. with the canal the door provided his last great gift to his young cousin. he said -- he showed french plan how to think like roosevelts. and if anyone has a question, and i hope they do, i am told you have to go up to the microphone over there and ask me. [applause] and never had a good word to say about franklin. i can remember one time, after the 1936 campaign, some cannot. i heard something on the radio. and i ask my mother i said, why did some people pay to president roosevelt so much? there really hate him. and my mother's looking around for some way to ask -- answer a question about politics from a little boy who had never said anything about politics before. and she wanted to make the answer as simple as possible. and she finally said, well, there are people who think his eyes are too close together. and i was six years old. and even at that age a kind of new that it didn't make any sense. then i figured, well, what she was really saying is don't bother th

war, it was thought by policymakers, members of the public, and the scientists who worked the manhattan project that it was inevidentble within a decade, virtually inevitable we'd be in a nuclear war. it didn't happen. to borrow from mr. churchill, never give in on this one. petal to the metal to prevent this catastrophe from happening and avoid not only suicide or genocide, but also surrender. we don't want to be in that position. we don't want to be in a position where with a half million americans dead and an american president has to decide do i want to unleash against iran or another country if we're able to establish an attack that will kill millions? all out attack on iran kills 50 million, the total of the second world war dying within 30 days. i don't think frankly, million dead americans and an american president could do that, but the point is, you don't want to be in that situation in the first place. it's avoiding apocalyptic options and preparing something short of that. with that, i think it's a good enough time as any to stop, and i'd be delighted to answer questions, and i'll a

this is about a naming a new national park after the manhattan project. and we have to just stop and reflect on where this takes us. there should be a discussion about the full legacy of the manhattan project, including its devastating effects upon the japanese people and upon the rest of the world. if there was going to be a new park, it should serve as a solemn monument to japanese-american friendship that rose from the ashes and worldwide work for nuclear disarmament that continues to this day rather than a celebration of a technology that has brought such destruction to the world. now, our failure to recognize this dimension, even in its first iteration, is a significant injustice. i looked at the c.r.s. report on this and there is no mention of how this is going to be framed or phrased. the museum at lossal most, is a -- los alamos and we are developing technology at a rate that far exceeds at a rate to manage it. we are now memorializing a national park. how much time do i have left? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has 4 1/2 minutes. mr. kuci

policymakers, probably most members of the public, and sort and most of the scientist who worked on the manhattan project, that it was inevitable that within a decade, or virtually inevitable that we would be in a nuclear war. it didn't happen. we have to continually work, pedal to the metal in every way we can so that we can prevent this catastrophe from happening and avoid not only suicide or genocide, but also surrender. we don't want to be in that position. we don't want to be in a position where with a half a million americans dead, and an american president -- establish an attack that will kill millions. and all out attack on iran will kill maybe 50 million. the total of the entire second world war would die within 30 days. i don't think frankly that allows, millions of dead americans, an american president could do that. but the whole point is you don't want to be in the position in the first place. avoiding an apocalyptic options. and with that, i think it's as good enough time to stop, and i will be delighted to answer questions. and i'll ask steve who has a sharper eye the need to pick people o

the manhattan project. e apollo project, the cathedral builds as an enterprise during the renner sons. how about the columbus voyages? very experiencive to queen isabella. the ma jell lane voyage a whop episode of the voyages. the pyramids. loathes make the list. and any gripe about the list i have tossed up there? sure, we agree major investment in human and financial capital. then i asked what was the motivation for those? and in my list, of the most expensive things we have done, i came up with only three drivers. three no more than three, no fewer than three. the number one driver of them all is war. we can call if defense, that gets you the great wall of dhien. that gets you the manhattan project, in fact, that also get use at apollo project. it's the i don't want to die driver. okay. if you feel threatened and you're at risk, you will spend money without limit to not die. okay. that's kind of an obvious one in retrospect. what's next? the prospect of gaining great economic wealth. not quite as po at th

that gives you the manhattan project. in fact, that also gives you the apollo project.he i don't want to die driver. if you feel threatened and are at risk, you will spend money without limit to not die. [laughter] okay or if that's kind of an obvious one in retrospect. what is next? the prospect of gaining great economic wealth. not quite as potent as the i don't want to die driver, but it is really powerful operating on the motivations of nations. that is what gives you the columbus voyages. columbus himself was a discover. but somebody has to write the check. the people who wrote the check says oh, by the way, take these spanish flags with you when you go and put them wherever you land to clear the land for spain, see if there are any bridges there. he didn't say tell us what new things you learned about the botany of where you landed. no, he might be interested in it, his crew might be interested in it, but not the people who wrote the checks. the third greatest driver, we see much less of this today, than what was common hundreds of years ago. that is the praise of

policymakers and probably most member of the public and most of the scientist who worked on a manhattan project that it was inevitable that within a decade are virtually inevitable that we would be in a nuclear war. it didn't happen. we have to continually work pedal to the metal and every weekend so we can prevent this catastrophe from happening and avoid not only suicide or genocide, but also surrender. we don't want to be in that position. we don't want to be in a position where with a half a million americans dead an american president has to decide, do i want to unleash against iran or some other country if we are able to establish an attack that will kill millions, and all out attack on iran would kill maybe $50 million -- 50 million within 30 days. i don't think frankly that unless there were nearly a million dead americans and american president could do that but the whole point is you don't want to be in that position in the first place. is avoiding the options and always preserving something short of that. and with that, i think this is as good enough time as any to stop and i would b

the private enterprise system couldn't have done the manhattan project.- >> people come in and say the government should stay out of the ven tire capital business. >> the kind venture capital we were talking about was research and development into new technologies that were too expensive to be developed by private enterprises. >> basic science. basic science. >> were you against the apollo project? >> no but you can't pick winners and losers. >> what's the difference? you're not picking winners and lossers. as roosevelt said, sometimes we're going to have a dead end. >> you've got the boom in domestic energy now. you didn't -- >> the administration has facilitated the vast increase in the production of natural gas. all of these republicans want to talk about the keystone pipeline except -- it can't go over the biggest object way fer in some of these. >> back to the jobs picture. 8.3% unemployment. you said yourself we don't want to be here. the jobs report we have coming on friday is pretty key. expectations are for an increase of 125,000, which is a step

the clerk: h.r. 5987, a bill to establish the manhattan project national historic park in oak ridge, tennessee, lows alamos, new mexico, and hamford, washington, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: the yeas are 237 and the nays are 180, 2/3 not being in the affirmative, the rules are not suspended and the bill is not passed. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from washington rise? mr. hastings: i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous ferrell on the bill h.r. 3249. the speake

people tell me about the manhattan project and the internet and the 9/11 responders and all that, andthat. but to have a vibrant government you need a vibrant private sector to pay for it or else it doesn't work. >> simpson-bowles takes the government employment down by 10% on day one, it should balance the importance of private jobs as opposed to those that occur in the public sector. but we have to have a broader recognition of that in terms of supporting our companies and any number of ways. >> germany is much more supportive of its -- they sound more, it sounds like german exceptionalism, not american. that's all we need is german exceptionalism again in this world. >> joe you got a situation where germany is in a different financial position than the rest of the countries in the eu at least in southern europe and the question is, they're going to defend all they can to protect themselves, and that is not going to necessarily be in the best interests of the rest of the union. >> why is the euro so strong at this point. you look at the problems that are there, even germany's econom

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manhattan skyline. the privately funded project will cost $230 million.will draw millions of visitors. it should be finished in about three years. i'm not getting on that. >> it will be a heck of a view. are you scared of heights? >> you know, i don't see it. so you're up there, ah wow, i'm so high i could die. wow. i don't know. it doesn't make me fool good. i don't need that. >> sunny, think about you and your husband when you maybe courting and having a date and on the ferris wheel, wouldn't get on there? wouldn't be romantic? >> oh, it's so high, my goodness. look i am 1,400 feet up in the air and could fall and die. i don't need that feeling. >> you are not feeling it. >> don't know -- get on the ferry and go to staten island to do it. >> sure, why not. beautiful view. >>> and it's been a week since the iphone 5 hit stores but we're just now getting a look at part of the phone frenzy from early last friday. >> right in front of dozens of people waiting in line for hours to be among first to buy the iphone. the apple employee drops the boxes full of d

manhattan. a few disclosures on this. we weren't reviewing a specific project or a specific store or a specific location. so this is a more general approach and we had to make some assumptions because of that. relying on some other studies that have been done, we were able to do so and apply those to san francisco. there were data limitations. there is no great data source that has all the information that you were asking about. so that we could roll it all up and present a neat package. we have had to go to many different sources with limitations. first on the topic of labor and employee health standard because one of your questions, supervisor mar, what the impact would be on wages and health benefits and so forth of a large formula retail store coming to san francisco? and our conclusion there is that the city has a number of laws in place that provide protections. the minimum wage ordinance. the health care security ordinance and the paid sick-leave ordinance all in the administrative code provide some protections. and here is a summary of what those laws p

decided to walk away from a long-planned and much-needed project with new york and the federal government to build a rail tunnel into manhattan. it would have helped the economy and given employment to 6,000 construction workers. lots of jobs. >> yeah. i canceled it. i mean, listen, the bottom line is, i don't have the money. and you know what? i can't pay people for those jobs if i don't have the money to pay them. where am i getting the money? i don't have it. i literally don't have it. >> this is going on all over the country. >> yes. of course it is. it's not like you can avoid it forever, 'cause it's here now, and we all know it's here, and the federal government doesn't have the money to paper over it anymore either for the states. the day of reckoning has arrived. that's it. and it's gonna arrive everywhere. time may vary a little bit depending upon which state you're in, but it's coming. >> and nowhere has the reckoning been as bad as it is in illinois, the state that spends twice as much as it collects in taxes and is unable to pay its bills. >> this is the state of affairs in illinois. it's not pretty. >> dan hynes

projects in america. $4.5 billion for the first mile and a half. the new york subway line, which would run nearly the length of manhattan would cost between 22 and $24 tab? i went ten stories beneath the surface to get to the bottom line. backhoe excavators that can cost $700,000 apiece. manifts that sell for up to half a million bucks. see that high droydraulic drill? they can go for 800 grand a pob. new york city has them working full speed ahead on its second avenue subway line. subways are expensive. just to give you a sense of perspective, way back when, the first subway in manhattan was 21 miles and cost $35 million. this one, about a mile and a half for about $4.5 billion. that's more than a billion dollar as stop. that's just for phase one. we went digging ten stories below manhattan to find out what goes into the bottom line on a new subway line. >> a bargain. $800,000 a pop. >> the most massive piece of equipment, the tunnel booring machine. digging from street level, boring is is much more efficient and disrupts life aboveground much less. >> little over two stories tall. it can go on average about 50 feet a day. >> one of these costs $12

projects in american history at a caisse of $4.5 billion for the first mile and half. new york's new second avenue subway line. complete the line that could run nearly the length of manhattan$22 billion and $24 billion. what's behind the mammoth tab? i went ten feet below the surface to get to the bottom line. backhoe excavators that can cost $700,000 apiece. man lifts that sell for up to half a million bucks. see that hydraulic drill jumbo, they can go for $800 grand a pop. these are the machines of modern day civil engineering. new york city has them working full speed ahead on its new second avenue subway line. subways are expensive, just to give you a sense of perspective, way back when, the first subway in manhattan was 21 miles and it cost $35 million. this one, about a mile and a half for about $4.5 billion. that's more than a billion dollars a stop. >> and that's just for phase one. we went digging ten stories below manhattan to find out what goes into the bottom line on a new subway line. >> it's a bargain. it's a bargain. $800,000 a pop. >> the most massive piece of equipment is the tunnel boring machine. the last time new york built a subway t used the cut and c

project. what's the first thing you do? >> make sure that people understand what you're doing. >> reporter: construction of a new two-track subway line on manhattan's >> i started to go from store to store. we set up meetings with stakeholders in neighborhoods, and it took a while. >> reporter: can you show me around downstairs. >> absolutely. >> reporter: where are we standing right now? what will this look like four years from now? >> right now we are at the end of the 72nd street station, about 69th street. let's walk down. >> okay. this was nothing but rock when you started. when did it begin to take shape? how long does that take? >> at the very beginning as we go in behind the machine, the tunnel boring machine, will you see the immediate results. >> reporter: this boring machine powers through the rock to make the tunnel. it's a massive piece of equipment. at 850 feet long, the head alone weighs more than 200 tons and cuts a hole 22 feet in diameter. how fast does the boring machine move? >> the boring machine, if you have good ground, can do about 100 feet a day. >> reporter: but some of the ground is too soft, so believe it or not, they ac