Homeland Security: Inside & Out

Is the GPS system on the brink of failure?

Tuesday, June 30

• 7 p.m. Central on KAMU 90.9 FM

Thursday, July 2

• Noon Eastern on WFED 1500 AM (with an encore at 9 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, June 28)

Click here to listen to the podcast of the June 30/July 2 show.

Guests include:

• David Coursey of PC World on the potential failure of the GPS system.
• Reporter Matthew Harwood on the technology of drug smuggling.
• Bob Brewin of NextGov on a presidential network to survive nuclear attack.
• Joel Millman of the Wall Street Journal on doing business in a chaotic Mexico.
• John Hollywood of RTI International on the detection of terrorist activity.
• Shaun Kennedy, director of the National Center for Food Protection and Defense
• Neville P. Clarke, director the National Center for Foreing Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense
• Laura Spencer, deputy director of the Integrative Center for Homeland Security, on the  TSA's bomb-sniffing puppies program

How to persuade Americans to evacuate a danger zone

Tuesday, June 23

• 7 p.m. Central on KAMU 90.9 FM

Thursday, June 25

• Noon Eastern on WFED 1500 AM (with an encore at 9 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, June 28)

Click here to listen to the podcast of the June 23/25 show.

Guests include:

• Journalist Amanda Ripley of Time magazine on the art of persuading Americans to evacuate.
• Emergency response trainer Brendan McCluskey on the principles of all-hazards  planning.
• Robert Bonvino, author of "Medical Disaster Response: A Survival Guide for Hospitals  in Mass Casualty Events."
• Hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach on his forecast for the 2009 storm season.
• Isaac Maya, interim director of the National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of  Terrorism Events (CREATE).
• Barbara Quiram, director of the Office of Special Programs at the Texas A&M  Health Science Center's School of Rural Public Health.

The connection between climate change and hurricanes

Tuesday, June 16

• 7 p.m. Central on KAMU 90.9 FM

Thursday, June 18

• Noon Eastern on WFED 1500 AM (with an encore at 9 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, June 21)

Click here to listen to the podcast of the June 16/19 show.

Guests include:

• Jeff Lee of the Vancouver Sun on the city's preparations for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
• Rolf Mowatt-Larsen, former director of the Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence at the U.S. Department of Energy, now a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard.
• Alex Kingsbury of U.S. News & World Report on immigration checks on criminals.
• Gary LaFree, director of National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), on the center's new database.
• Greg Peligrino of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu on the firm's recent report on cyber issues.
• Bill Smullen, director of the Maxwell School’s National Security Studies program.
• Jen Irish, Texas A&M assistant professor, on climate change and hurricanes.