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Scientists

  • Discussing the book, "The Closing Circle: Confronting the Environmental Crisis" by Dr. Barry Commoner

    Nov. 3, 1971
  • Robert Jay Lifton

    Robert Jay Lifton discusses his book "Living and Dying"

    Jan. 6, 1975
  • Interviewing Dr. Joseph Rotblat. A Polish-born, British physicist, Dr. Rotblat was the only scientist to quit the Manhattan Project once it was learned that Nazi Germany would be unable to build an atom bomb

    Mar. 6, 1989
  • Interview with David Brower

    Mar. 1, 1992
  • Discussing the book "Malignant neglect" with the author Joseph Highland

    May. 31, 1979
  • Jeremy Bernstein discusses his book "Three Degrees Above Zero: Bell Labs in the Information Age"

    Nov. 22, 1984
  • Dr. Paul R. Ehrlich discusses his book "The Population Bomb"

    1969
  • Physicists John A. Simpson and Alber Watterberg discuss the events of December 2, 1942 which are considered the birth of the Atomic Age

    Dec. 3, 1982
  • Richard C. Lewontin in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Mar. 4, 1982
  • Interviewing in West Germany with veterinarian and Nazi resistor Maria Grafin von Maltzan

    Sep. 1, 1986
  • Interview with Dr. Helen Caldicott

    Mar. 8, 1984
  • Discussing "The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists," with Mike Moore, David Cartwright and John Mearsheimer

    Jul. 25, 1995
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