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More and more countries, and terrorist groups, want the means to make nuclear weapons. As a result, there’s a black market in materials and technology. But a recent effort to update the Treaty on Nuclear Non-proliferation has ended in failure. Some critics contend the Bush Administration is making it harder to keep proliferation under control. Can the US get along with the UN-s nuclear watchdog? What about Iran and North Korea? Is the risk of a nuclear holocaust becoming more or less likely? Making News: Supreme Court Overturns Conviction of Black Death Row Inmate The US Supreme Court has thrown out the conviction of a black inmate on death row in Texas, ruling that his jury was unfairly stacked with white people. We speak with David Savage who reports on the court for the Los Angeles Times. Making News: Senate to Apologize for Not Outlawing Lynching, While Mississippi Burning Trial Begins In 1964, a part-time Baptist minister was acquitted in federal court of violating the civil rights of Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney-who were brutally murdered after going to Mississippi to register black citizens to vote. Today, jury selection is under way in the murder trial of Edgar Ray Killen. We speak with Lawrence Guyot, a civil rights worker who knew all three of the murder victims, and later became chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

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