After WWII, the U.S. Government allowed intelligence agencies and secret laboratories to grow unchecked. Historian Matthew Connelly will discuss what the government hides and why. From Pearl Harbor to drone warfare, Connelly will explain how the relentless accumulation of secrets makes it impossible to protect truly vital information.

Matthew Connelly is the Director for the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) and a Professor of Global History at Columbia University. He is the author of “The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals about America’s Top Secrets”, currently available for preorder.