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Can the U.S. Deter a Nuclear Iran?
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 10:00 am

Iran, nuclear weapons, and the Middle East. Is it never going to happen? Or is the US ready to accept, and put up what Hillary Clinton calls a “defense umbrella”?

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Pakistan’s Fight, America’s Fear
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 10:00 am

As Pakistan’s president comes to the White House, fears in Washington grow over Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal and the Taliban. We’ll look at the loose-nuke threat on the Af-Pak front.

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How Nukes Spread
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Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 11:00 am

Spies, lies and nukes. We’ll look at a new history of nuclear proliferation – and how the bomb really spread.

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Iran, Israel, and America on the Brink?
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 10:00 am

Missiles and sabers rattling in the Middle East: Iranian. Israeli. American. We ask where it’s headed, and where Washington really stands on the possibility of war with Iran

 
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Google vs. Murdoch
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Rupert Murdoch wants to block the search giant from scooping free content from his newspapers. We’ll look at the staredown.

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On Point Blog
Michael Wolff and Jeff Jarvis on Murdoch v. Google

We had a rousing discussion about Google vs. Murdoch, and what it says about the whole future of news, with Michael Wolff, Jeff Jarvis, and Steven Brill. Here’s what Wolff and Jarvis had to say about the delusions of both Murdoch and Google.

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Video: Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Last week, host Tom Ashbrook was on stage with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, asking him about some of the biggest technology and business issues of our time.

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California, here we come! And we need your questions!

On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show!  The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]

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