Transcript: Has World War III Begun?

DON GONYEA
Morning Edition (NPR)
07-31-2006
Has World War III Begun?

Host: DON GONYEA
Time: 11:00-12:00 PM

DON GONYEA, host:

Fighting in Israel and Lebanon, the mounting death toll in Iraq, North Korean missiles flying over Japan, Iran creeping closer to the nuclear club, bombs in Bombay - are we in the midst of the next world war? That's what some prominent people are saying.

NPR's Guy Raz spoke to politicians and historians about the state of world affairs.

GUY RAZ reporting:

Winston Churchill was shouting from the rooftops in the 1930s. War was coming, Germany was rearming, the Japanese were eyeing China, and the Italians had designs on Abyssinia. But few heeded Churchill's call, and ...

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