A progress report from Iraq A progress report from a member of the team of analysts invited to Iraq by Gen. David Patraeus for 10 days of research on security and political progress in Iraq's three largest cities.11:00 a.m.
Guests
Colin Kahl: Professor, Security Studies program at Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Non-resident Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Consultant, U.S. Department of Defense.
The history and future of the atom bomb Three nuclear weapons and global security experts discuss the history and future use of nuclear weapons at the Aspen Ideas Festival this summer.12:00 p.m.
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.