This Week on “Sunday Morning” (Sept. 13)
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America’s Stockpile Shortage
The magazine’s main feature focuses on the U.S. military’s shrinking supply of advanced arms. The clash with Iran started over half a year ago, and in its opening stages the United States launched thousands of long-range, precision-guided missiles. Today, the Pentagon confronts a serious situation: an insufficient number of high-tech weapons to keep fighting a major power such as China. To rebuild its supplies, the defense sector has been placed on a “wartime footing”, which will require billions of dollars and years of production work.
David Martin, CBS News’s national security correspondent, went to facilities where production is being stepped up. He looked at Lockheed Martin’s Missiles and Fire Control division, L3Harris, and CoAspire are among the companies working to rebuild America’s collection of weapons systems.
Shipwrecks and Holocaust Stories
Oceanographer Robert Ballard, who located the wreck of the RMS Titanic in 1985, talks with correspondent Lee Cowan about how that discovery 12,000 feet beneath the Atlantic changed him. Ballard’s research vessel Nautilus continues to map the ocean floor.
Sophie Elmhirst, the author of “A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck.”, sits down with Cowan for a conversation. Her book centers on people at their most exposed moments.
The Nautilus Live Ocean Exploration Trust was set up by Ballard. Elmhirst’s work can be found across five forms — Hardcover, Trade Paperback, Large Print, eBook and Audio — through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org.
AI and Surrogacy Investigations
Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, admitted to CBS News that he did not foresee all the consequences of fast AI development, even as he urged people not to be alarmed. Jo Ling Kent reported the remarks.
Katrina Kaufman’s yearlong investigation looks at surrogates who describe experiencing trauma during commercial surrogacy arrangements. She found that few, if any, meaningful protections exist for surrogates in the United States. The assumption there is that commercial surrogacy is closely regulated is widely held.
From the Vault
Alina Cho visits with Diane von Furstenberg in Venice, where the fashion icon talks about her life’s journey and her mother surviving the Holocaust. Von Furstenberg’s brand has long empowered women with practical, feminine clothing, most famously her ’70s wrap dress.
The show also revisits interviews with von Furstenberg from the CBS Sunday Morning vault, including profiles by Rita Braver from 2003 and Anthony Mason from 2011, plus a 2021 Martha Teichner story about New York’s Little Island, an oasis along Manhattan’s shoreline created by von Furstenberg and her husband, Barry Diller.
Holocaust Survival Story
A former teacher named Matthew Rozell started an oral history project that brought together interviews with World War II veterans. Through that work, lesser-known accounts of the war came to light, among them the story of American soldiers freeing 2,500 Holocaust survivors from a so-called “death train” in April 1945.
Seth Doane sits down with Rozell, a writer whose work centers on “A Train Near Magdeburg,” along with historian James Bulgin and filmmaker Mike Edwards, to discuss keeping alive the recollections of veterans from World War II and the value of society learning the stories it must never forget.
The documentary “A Train Near Magdeburg” is coming soon.
“A Train Near Magdeburg: A Teacher’s Journey Into the Holocaust, and the Reuniting of the Survivors and Liberators, 70 Years On”
Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org all carry the book, which comes in several forms: Hardcover, Trade Paperback, Large Print, Young Adult, eBook and Audio.
This week’s schedule brings together serious reporting on politics and society alongside more relaxed pieces about fashion and historical subjects.
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