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Daniel talks with Gary Millhollin (mil-HAHL-in) director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control. Today is the 50th anniversary of first atomic test. Millhollin says there is a greater chance that nuclear weapons would be used today than at any time during the Cold War.

Critic Bob Mondello chronicles the influence that the atomic bomb has had on Hollywood movies. Some movies plots have shown the drama of narrowly-averting nuclear war, others have depicted the aftereffects of a bomb, and yet others have poked fun at the cold war.

Michael talks with Emory Univeristy political science professor Merle Black and his brother, Rice University professor Earl Black about this past week's Supreme Court decision barring race-based congressional districts. Both say the decision could result in fewer minority members of Congress and a continued erosion of Democratic Party support in the South.

Thirty years ago today, the nation underwent a health care revolution when President Johnson signed the Medicare bill into law. NPR's Patricia Neighmond reports on the impact Medicare has had on the health of America's elderly.

Danny talks with psychotherapist Robert Akeret, author of Tales from a Traveling Couch (Norton Books). The book is Akeret's personal account of re-visiting former patients to see how their lives have developed over many years. And to ask himself whether or not therapy made any significant difference in their lives.

DEBBIE ELLIOTT REPORTS ON THE DILEMMA FACING POOR STATES SUCH AS ALABAMA AS A RESULT OF CONGRESS' DOWNSIZING OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND CUTS OF FEDERAL FUNDS WHICH REPRESENT A SIZEABLE PORTION OF STATE BUDGETS.

For the holiday weekend, some statistics for the road.

Reporter Jyl Hoyt from member station KBSU reports on plans by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reintroduce grizzly bears into areas of central Idaho. But the local population is divided over the issue.

Michael visits the Library of Congress here in Washington D.C. On display thru the Fourth of July weekend are the actual drafts of the Decleration of Independance made by thomas Jefferson. It's the first time the actual pieces of paper, corrections and all, have been shown in public. He also talks with History professor Joseph Ellis of Mt. Holyoke College about what Jefferson thought of all the tinkering that happend with HIS version of the Decleration of Independance.

Daniel talks with John Matisonn, former NPR correspondent in South Africa, who's now a commissioner with that country's Independent Broadcasting Authority. They discuss how the growth of private radio stations in South Africa has fostered the development of democracy there.