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Aspen Ideas Festival 2008

The 2008 Ideas Festival, sponsored by the Aspen Institute and Atlantic Magazine, gathered scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers for a week in early July. MPR's Midday broadcast several of the presentations.

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Aspen Ideas Festival 2008

The history and future of the atom bomb

Broadcast: Midday, 08/05/2008, 12:00 p.m.

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Three nuclear weapons and global security experts discuss the history and future use of nuclear weapons at the Aspen Ideas Festival this summer.

Guests

  • Joseph Cirincione: President of the Ploughshares Fund and former director for non-proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Author of, "Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons."
  • Bruce Blair: President of the World Security Institute.
  • Martin Sherwin: Pulitzer Prize-winning author of a book about J. Robert Oppenheimer, titled "American Prometheus." History professor at George Mason University.

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