Dave Mazza speaks with two participants in upcoming Portland events for Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Dr. James N. Yamazaki is UCLA professor emeritus in pediatrics. At the age of 33, Yamazaki was the lead physician of the 1949 U.S. Atomic Bomb Medical Team, studying the effects of nuclear bombing on children in Nagasaki, in which more than 100,000 persons died directly, with hundreds of thousands more being exposed directly and indirectly to the bomb. He helped establish the website Children of the Bomb. Pamela Vergun is editor and translator of "A Dimly Burning Wick: Memoir from the Ruins of Hiroshima.

Religion scholar Karen Armstrong talks about her book The Bible: A Biography. Armstrong not only describes how, when and by whom the Bible was written, she also examines some 2,000 years of biblical interpretation by bishops and rabbis, scholars and mystics, pietists and critics. The book dispells the fundamentalist notion that only one view of the Bible can be correct

Host Linda Olson-Osterlund speaks with a recent Reed College graduate about his detention by Israeli police in Gaza. They also discuss harassment of him and his mother by the FBI upon his return to the U.S. His attorney Tom Nelson will  be interviewed.

Per Fagereng interviews Alan Rosenblith about Community Way, a business loyalty program that connects local businesses, charitable organizations and individuals in a mutually beneficial three-way partnership and Community Prosper, an online social networking tool promoting a sustainable economy.