This is Monica Perez, and we are here today with part three of our discussion of

Report from Iron Mountain on the possibility and desirability of peace.

And this is the 1967 or 1968 original edition.

We've talked about this before.

It says it's a hoax all over it.

Last week, I read Appendix 2 from the 1996 edition,

where Herschel McLandris, the name that John Kenneth Galbraith used when he was a,

when he was writing his column as a book critic, book reviewer said he was invited to the study.

It's definitely real. The timing checks out. The people check out. Totally real. I realize now that I've

gotten this 1996 book, I noticed that it said, an introduction by Victor Navaski. So he was,

I guess, a satirist, satirist, whatever. And I started flipping through it, and it's just this

big long explanation of how it's a hoax and Leonard

Lou and whatever. I'll read that before the end of our journey through this, but I really just

want to do the meat of it today, but there was so much controversy surrounding it and the

introduction by this guy is actually quite interesting, but let's get a little meat of this down first,

if you will indulge me. So we were up to section two, disarmament and the economy.

In this section, we shall briefly examine some of the common features of the studies that have

been published dealing with one or another aspects of the expected impact of the studies that have been published dealing with one or another

aspects of the expected impact of disarmament on the American economy. Whether disarmament is

considered as a byproduct of peace or as its precondition, its effect on the national economy

will in either case be the most immediately felt of its consequences. So you feel the effect on the

economy first. Now my father who was absolutely against war, hated the Iran, the Iraq thing, all of that,

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