no nuclear weapons have been used since nagasaki in wartime. as i mentioned, there have been no wars between great powers since 1953 comptroller of the longest span of time without a great power war since the roman empire. there have been no wars between western european countries. again, your first reaction might be to say, well, oh, mom. of course that happened. no one expects france and germany to go to war. what a concept. or sweden and russia. but, of course, any student in european history knows that this was the rule, not the exception until the precipitous decline after 1945. there have been no wars between developed countries, the 45 or so countries with the highest gdp per capita now what about the rest of the world. there was a decline of violence that i call the new peace that refers to the masses of the world. what has happened is we set aside the great powers of the western european countries, the rich countries. what would the rest of the world to? well, there was a worldwide decline in the number of interstate wars where one cou

but the one they dropped on nagasaki, that one was called fat man, and it was plutonium.as plutonium from hanford. hanford very quickly grew to become one of the largest nuclear facilities in the world. it had nine reactors. it employed tens of thousands of people. and it created plutonium for nuclear bombs throughout the cold war. in 1988 the government shut down hanford. the department of energy switched from the nukes building business to the nukes cleaning up business. there are billions of gallons of waste at hanford. and cleaning it up has not gone all that well. as the "seattle times" put it earlier this year, some of the hottest radioactive waste from hanford was funneled into concrete and carbon-steel tanks that today are decades past their projected life span. some have spontaneously heated up or burped explosive gases. 67 are suspected to have leaked. at least a million gallons of radioactive goo has spilled into the ground and is working its way to the columbia river." yeah, what everybody agrees is the most contaminated site in north america is right on the b

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nuclear weapons been an example, which have not been used since nagasaki. so the correlation is much less than evil thing because it is so easy to commit handgun violence. >> you're talking about historical link between technology of violence in that particular, you know, pattern and northern europe is technologically very rich and devoted to cultural violence. >> how clear is that connection? >> yeah, nice technology is typically applied to weapons aboard. to the mongolian horseback had amazingly well -- competent those that could be vast amounts of damage very quickly. that is something that seems to bring out people's ingenuity. >> and paul steinberg, a psychiatrist here in town. i am wondering if you could just comment that she may be dismissing a change in human nature, a little too quickly in the sense fence that genes are always in it and quit the environment. and i know you cite a book in a new site great cartoonist research is remarkable and looking at what happened started a 13th century with the royals just being much more fertile than the lower

what they did in nigeria this is also true for the americans and what they did in hiroshima and nagasaki where the japanese were they did in china. for the russians on every nation has to investigate its crimes in the past but establishing historical truth is the work of historians it is not something that should be done and established by law with respect freedom of speech and so on this is all political and trying to get the vote but segment of population there are very few turkey's focus in france many more armenian voters and the law and is not going to improve the lot of armenians living today although historians have recognized there was a genocide there is no need for a law for this so we have seen protests on the streets of paris from the turkish community in a year of on arrest across the arab world do you think the situation could trigger an even larger backlash in frats. well not on this particular issue there are other issues like you know stereotype programs economic issues unsolved and the turkish community doesn't have much political clout so it's very different than what'

working together to protect the one percent in the foreign policy since we dropped bombs on hiroshima nagasaki doesn't change the undergrowth probably going to regret health care the we want health care for all the democrats want to have access to health care for all which is another buzzword for i.e. taking wall street pay insurance companies republicans and tea party want to give it one of how the factory you know complete works of i read in shotgun instead of a doctor the occupy movement in my opinion stands for something that is revolutionary outside what either party can deliver to us so the demands we're placing on the system are not reform demands they're revolutionary guards. are dennis i want to thank you for joining us i guess we're going to have to wait and see if they can actually you know take those demands or take the momentum of the movement and transform it into some kind of action but you know if i may make just one point two it seems interesting because right now they've been saying that the democratic national convention isn't going to be until next september there are a goo

soviet bomb is a copy of the bomb dropped on nagasaki, the first plutonium bomb. i do think that john paul ii played an absolutely critical role and poland played a critical role in the ending of the soviet union. i recently read the politburo minutes from a meeting in december 1981, a few days before martial law was imposed in poland by the general. there's a very interesting discussion, and drop off and members of the politburo, and they say we are not sure that he's going to do what we want them to do. andropov and members of the politburo. most people thought if he does not act, the soviet union will intervene. many people justified his actions in terms of saying it he had not acted, the soviet union would have sent in forces. but from the discussion, there's no disagreement. they could change their minds, of course, but it is still very revealing that the movement in poland, which got enormous help from the election of pope, and i think we have. thank the holy ghost in the end for what happened, which was it was. extremely was >> thank you, david. we have a q

the first soviet bomb is the copy of the bomb dropped on nagasaki. may i address the second?k that john paul ii played an absolutely critical role, and indeed, poland craig a critical role in the ending of the soviet union. i recently read the politburo minutes for a meeting in december 1981, just a few days before martial law was imposed in poland. there was a very interesting discussion, members of the politburo, and they said we're not sure they're right to do what we want them to do, imposing martial law, but we will not go in with military force. where fighting a bore in afghanistan. there will be pressure from the west. i the most people thought if the leader does not act, the soviet union will intervening, and the people justified his actions in terms of sync if he hadn't acted the soviet union would have sent in forces. in the politburo, they said there was no disagreement. it is very revealing that the movement in poland, which of course got enormous help from the election of the pope, and we have to think the holy ghost in the end for what happened -- [laughter] it