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The Age Of Radiance By Craig Nelson chats with Dr. Alvin

Craig Nelson-Radiance Click Here To Listen When Marie Curie, Enrico Fermi, and Edward Teller forged the science of radioactivity, they created a revolution that arced from the end of the nineteenth century, through the course of World War II and the Cold War of superpower brinksmanship, to our own twenty-first-century confrontation with the dangers of nuclear power and proliferation—a history of paradox, miracle, and nightmare. While nuclear science improves our everyday lives—from medicine to microwave technology—radiation’s invisible powers can trigger cancer and cellular mayhem. Writing with a biographer’s passion, Craig Nelson unlocks one of the great mysteries of the universe in a work that is tragic, triumphant, and above all, fascinating.

By |May 6th, 2014|Military, Science, Technology, War|Comments Off on The Age Of Radiance By Craig Nelson chats with Dr. Alvin
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Resister By Bruce Dancis chats with Dr. Alvin

Bruce Dancis Click Here To Listen Bruce Dancis arrived at Cornell University in 1965 as a youth who was no stranger to political action. He grew up in a radical household and took part in the 1963 March on Washington as a fifteen-year-old. He became the first student at Cornell to defy the draft by tearing up his draft card and soon became a leader of the draft resistance movement.

By |May 2nd, 2014|Biography, Military, War|Comments Off on Resister By Bruce Dancis chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Burning Shore By Ed Offley chats with Dr. Alvin

Ed Offley Click Here To Listen On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun at Virginia Beach, two massive fireballs erupted just offshore from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. While men, women, and children gaped from the shore, two damaged oil tankers fell out of line and began to sink. Then a small escort warship blew apart in a violent explosion. Navy warships and aircraft peppered the water with depth charges, but to no avail. Within the next twenty-four hours, a fourth ship lay at the bottom of the channel— all victims of twenty-nine-year-old Kapitänleutnant Horst Degen and his crew aboard the German U-boat U-701. In The [...]

By |April 28th, 2014|Biography, History, Military, War|Comments Off on The Burning Shore By Ed Offley chats with Dr. Alvin
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Spy Of David by Elliott Goldenberg chats with Dr. Alvin

Elliot Goldenberg Click Here To Listen Winston Churchill's description of Stalinist Russia in 1939 - he called it a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma - easily could have been said about the case of Jonathan Jay Pollard, the U.S. Naval Intelligence analyst who, in March of 1987, received a mystifying life sentence for passing classified secrets to an American ally; Israel. Now, twenty five years later, the debate over America's most controversial spy has apparently once again been rekindled. Spy of David is an attempt to shed a bright light over a dark stain on both the American judicial system and our intelligence community, while, at the same time, solve a decades [...]

By |April 22nd, 2014|Crime, History, Military, Politics|Comments Off on Spy Of David by Elliott Goldenberg chats with Dr. Alvin
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Operation Homefront with Al Roker chats with Dr. Alvin

Al Roker Click Here To Listen  Al Roker in conjunction with Eckrich Operation Inspiration profiled, honored and surprised deserving military families across the country. They honored the heroes behind the heroes teaming up with CMT Hot 20 Countdown and stars like Richard Petty and Kirk Herbstreit to honor, thank and support the families who have given so much for their country.  

By |April 21st, 2014|Charity, Military, Weather|Comments Off on Operation Homefront with Al Roker chats with Dr. Alvin
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Run, Don’t Walk by Adele Levine

Adele Levine Click Here To Listen In her six years at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Adele Levine rehabilitated soldiers admitted in worse and worse shape. As body armor and advanced trauma care helped save the lives—if not the limbs—of American soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, Walter Reed quickly became the world leader in amputee rehabilitation. But no matter the injury, physical therapy began the moment the soldiers emerged from surgery. Days at Walter Reed were intense, chaotic, consuming, and heartbreaking, but they were also filled with camaraderie and humor. Working in a glassed-in fishbowl gymnasium, Levine, her colleagues, and their combat-injured patients were on display at every moment to tour groups, politicians, and [...]

By |April 19th, 2014|Medical, Military, War|Comments Off on Run, Don’t Walk by Adele Levine
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