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Daniel talks to Neil Munro, a reporter for Washington Techonology newspaper and Robert Ayers, chief of the Pentagon's defense information systems agency's information warfare divison, about the possibility of an infowar... an attack on the communications systems that support the defense of the United States. Enemy countries or terrorists could sabotage the civillian phone, air traffic control, and power systems on which the militray depends by linking up with international computer networks like the Internet.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH AUTHORS ROBERT GOLDBERG, A TELEVISION CRITIC OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND GERALD JAY GOLDBERG, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ENGLISH AND UCLA, A FATHER-SON TEAM, ABOUT THEIR NEW BOOK "CITIZEN TURNER: THE WILD RISE OF AN AMERICAN TYCOON" PUBLISHED BY HARCOURT BRACE & COMPANY...THE SAGA OF TED TURNER AND HIS RISE AS A MAJOR AMERICAN FIGURE.

THE THIRD INSTALLMENT OF OUR SEMI-REGULAR SERIAL RADIO CARTOON...JULIUS KNIPL(Keh-nipple): REAL ESTATE PHOTOGRAPHER. THIS WEEK'S EPISODE..."THE INK ERADICATOR."

Daniel talks to Joe Arpaio, sherrif of Maricopa County Arizona, who has a program to arrest parents who are delinquent in their child support payments. Arpaio uses his volunteer posse to track down mothers and fathers who have fallen so far behind in their payments that warrants have been issued for their arrest. They are taken to jail, and their bail is set at the amount of money they owe.

THE DECISION TO DROP THE ATOM BOMB ENDED THE WAR, BUT OPENED ONE OF THE GREAT DEBATES OF THE CENTURY - 50 YEARS LATER, IT RAGES ON. WAS THE BOMB IMMORAL - OR WAS IT JUST NECESSARY? SCOTT SIMON WILL TRY TO RECREATED THE WORLD SURROUNDING HARRY TRUMAN AS HE MADE THAT MOST FATEFUL DECISION.

ALTHOUGH DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IS RUNNING FAIRLY SMOOTHLY NOW, ITS ROCKY BEGINNING HAS TAKEN ITS TOLL. MARK ROBERTS REPORTS FROM DENVER THAT A SMALL AIRPORT IN COLORADO SPRINGS IS ATTEMPTING TO GIVE THE DENVER AIRPORT A RUN FOR ITS COMPETITIVE MONEY AND THAT EVEN DENVER RESIDENTS ARE FINDING THE SMALL AIRPORT MORE APPEALING THAN THEIR OWN.

For the record, we play tape from a Yankee Stadium ceremony in 1969 where the Yankees retired Mantle's number. Joe Dimaggio appeared along with Mantle.

Jacki talks to Barbara Hodgson, author of "The Tattooed Map," (Chronicle Books) a story about a woman who travels to Morocco and wakes up one morning with a mysterious map tattooed on her arm. She decides to follow the map and disapprears.

NPR'S JOHN BURNETT REPORTS THAT THERE MIGHT BE SOME HOPE OF RELIEVING THE AGRICULTURAL AND ECOLOGICAL SCOURGE OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN FIRE ANT IN THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH NAT HENTOFF, LONG-TIME COLUMNIST WITH THE "VILLAGE VOICE," ABOUT A $40,000 SURVEY FUNDED AND CONDUCTED BY THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, TO DISCOVER IF PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY ARE DRIVEN CRAZY BY THE CITY.