This week the American Psychological Association (APA) will consider a measure to allow psychologist to return working at Guantanamo Bay and other detention facilities where so called enemy combatants are held. Mitch Jeserich talks to Dan Albers about his opposition to this new rule proposal as well as the history of the use of psychology in warfare.
Guest: Dan Aalbers teaches psychology at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado and a co-author of the APA’s membership referendum, the policy that removed psychologists from Guantanamo and the CIA’s dark sites.
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Marking the 73rd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki we speak to Deborah Leah Steinberg. Hes father worked at the Manhattan Project. She is the author of the book Raised In the Shadow if the Bomb.