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This is the Tom Hartman program.

And welcome back. I've got an op-ed published over at HartmanReport.com titled

can America stand on our own two feet?

And my op-ed actually mentions Congressman Connick because he just published a piece this week in the

Boston Globe basically calling for patriotic trade policy in the United States and manufacturing policy.

And I think it's absolutely brilliant.

Will America become energy independent again? Bernie Sanders is speaking out about this. We'll talk

about that. Kevin Camps is going to drop by about radiation risk from tactical nuclear weapons.

This is absolutely fascinating. We made a tactical nuke.

It was called the David Crockett that was one one thousandth the size of the Hiroshima bomb.

On the other hand, there are some tactical nukes that are two, three, four, five times the size

of the Hiroshima bomb. So we're going to talk about that at the fascinating piece in today's

New York Times too on that. Also, Ali Valshi is going to drop by. He just came back from the

hurricanes down in Florida and also, you know, recently returned from Ukraine. We'll be discussing

those topics. And geeky science can some coral reefs in the Caribbean be saved? We'll talk about

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