David Sanger: The Inheritance

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Partner:: Politics and Prose
Location:: Politics and Prose
Washington, D.C.
Event Date:: 01.31.09
Speaker:: David E. Sanger
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Summary: David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, discusses his latest book The Inheritance.

He describes the successes and shortcomings of the Bush administration, and explores the unresolved national security challenges that face President Obama.

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David E. Sanger

David E. Sanger is the chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times and is one of the newspaper's senior writers. In a 24-year career at the paper, he has reported from New York, Tokyo, and Washington, covering a wide variety of issues surrounding foreign policy, globalization, nuclear proliferation, Asian affairs, and, for the past five years, the arc of the Bush presidency. Twice he has been a member of Times reporting teams that won the Pulitzer Prize.

His most recent book is The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power (Harmony, 2009), a Times best-seller that explores the national security challenges facing President Barack Obama.

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01.: Introduction

02 min 49 sec

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02.: The Early Days of the Bush Administration

03 min 37 sec

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03.: The "Distraction" of the War in Iraq

03 min 00 sec

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04.: Ignoring Threats Outside of Iraq

04 min 39 sec

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05.: How China Benefited from the Iraq War

04 min 26 sec

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06.: America's Nuclear Vulnerabilities

03 min 33 sec

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07.: Other Unresolved Issues

06 min 09 sec

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08.: Q & A

00 min 48 sec

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09.: Q1: Preparing for a Biological Attack

04 min 12 sec

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10.: Q2: The Difficulty of Predictive Reporting

03 min 43 sec

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11.: Q3: Soft Power in the Obama Administration

02 min 44 sec

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12.: Q4: First Impressions of Bush

01 min 29 sec

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13.: Q5: Obstacles to Obama's Plans for Change

04 min 38 sec

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14.: Q6: The Threat of Cyber Terrorism

08 min 50 sec

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David Sanger Says China is 'Biggest Winner' of Iraq War

04 min 28 sec

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David Sanger: Homeland Security Nuke Detectors 'Comical'

03 min 20 sec

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David Sanger on the Future of Cyber Warfare

02 min 49 sec

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Encyclopædia Britannica Article

biological warfare: Military use of disease-producing or poisonous agents, and the means for defending against such agents. Biological warfare agents include many bacteria, such as those which cause anthrax, brucellosis, and typhus; viruses that cause diseases such as equine encephalitis; fungi such as rice blast, cereal rust, wheat smut, and potato blight; and toxins such as botulinum and ricin that are extracted from living organisms. Biological warfare dates from ancient times when warring groups would try to poison enemy soldiers with rotting or diseased corpses, infect cattle and horses, or spread contagion through civilian populations. Following the horrors of World War I, a 1925 Geneva Protocol prohibited the use of biological agents in warfare; however, this did not prevent Japan from using them in China during World War II. During the Cold War the Soviet Union as well as the U.S. and its allies built huge stockpiles of biological agents. Both sides signed the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, which prohibits the production, stockpiling, or development of biological weapons and requires the destruction of existing stockpiles, but the Soviets conducted a clandestine program until the 1990s. Biological weapons programs can be concealed easily, and the 1972 convention contains no provisions for inspection and reporting. As a result, many states have been suspected of developing biological warfare agents, and some modern armed forces have prepared defensive measures. These include battlefield sensors, protective garments and masks, sterilizing agents, and vaccines.; biological warfare on britannica.com