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Podcast for Saturday, May 5, 2007 [ 109.61 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (40)

• Karen J. Greenberg is the Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law (http://www.lawandsecurity.org/) and the editor of "The Torture Debate in America" (Cambridge) and (with Joshua Dratel) "The Torture Papers" (Cambridge). Her recent articles include, "Can Guantanamo Be Closed?"
• Robert Alvarez is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies (http://www.ips-dc.org/) where his currently focuses on nuclear disarmament, environmental and energy policies. Bob’s recent work includes, "Radioactive Waste and the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership," a new study that "takes apart new plans by the Bush administration to revive the nuclear power industry."
  For his work at the Department of Energy, Bob was awarded two Secretarial Gold Medals, the highest awards given by the Department. Bob was one of the Senate’s primary staff experts on the US nuclear weapons program. He helped establish the environmental cleanup program in the DOE, strengthened the Clean Air Act, uncovered several serious nuclear safety and health problems, improved medical radiation regulations, and created a transition program for communities and workers affected by the closure of nuclear weapons facilities.
  He also helped organize a successful lawsuit on behalf of the family of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear worker and active union member who was killed under mysterious circumstances in 1974. 
• Julia Whitty is the author of the new book, "Fragile Edge" (Houghton Mifflin) and she returned to This is Hell to discuss her recent writing including her cover story in the May/June issue of Mother Jones (http://www.motherjones.com), "Gone: By the End of the Century, Half of all Species will be Gone."

And our irregular correspondents tomorrow were:

• Drew Youngren, one of our producers-at-large, reported live from Manhattan. Drew recently graduated with a PhD in mathematics from Northwestern University and is currently teaching in New York City.
• Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth
• Elvis DeMorrow (http://www.nodoctors.com) returned to tell us what’s happening in the Konspiracy Korner live from San Francisco