Interviewing the President of the Institute for Space and Security Studies, peace activist Dr. Robert M. Bowman.

Interviewing Vietnam veterans and peace activists Dr. Charles Clements and Asa Baber.

Terkel interviews activist and children's author Dagmar Wilson. She discusses how she goes from a children's author to an activist for anti-nuclear testing.

Sam Day, Susan Laflamme, Bernie Noven, and Seldon Osbourne are all participants of The Continental Walk for disarmament and social justice. They're taking part in the walk to make the public aware of how much money is put into military and nuclear weapons. As a group, they feel strongly about not wanting people's lives and their worlds to blow up around them.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

Father Roy Bourgeois travels the country, talking to groups of people who aren't aware that their tax dollars go to fund the School of the Americas. Bourgeois discovered that money provided was for military weapons & for the training of soldiers to torture and to kill people of Latin American countries.

The world spends 600 billon dollars on the arms race, which is rather puzzling to Dr. Helen Caldicott when 2/3 of the world's children are starving. Caldicott explained if a bomb went off in Chicago, there'd be a crater a half a mile wide and 300 feet deep. In addition, 90% of the people will be dead, some from being vaporized.

Sam Lovejoy discusses the opposition to nuclear power, the Clamshell Alliance, politics, environmental concerns, and anti-nuclear sentiments and movements.

Content Warning: This conversation has the presence of outdated, biased, or offensive language. Rather than remove this content, we present it in the context of twentieth-century social history to acknowledge and learn from its impact and to inspire awareness and discussion.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations  

Discussing the current political situation in Nicaragua in comparison to the state of politics and society before the overthrow of Samoza's government with Dr. Ray Hooker, a member of the Nicaraguan National Assembly