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Daniel reads letters from listeners.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Hiroshima on the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb. The city marked the occasion with a solemn ceremony. And protests against a French decision to resume nuclear testing also took place.

PATRICK COX OF MEMBER STATION WBUR IN BOSTON REPORTS THAT OFFICIALS AT THE CEDAR JUNCTION PRISON IN WALPOLE, MASSASHUSETTS, ARE PREPARING TO LIFT A LOCKDOWN THAT'S BEEN IN EXISTENCE FOR THE PAST FOUR MONTHS. PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED THAT LIFTING THE LOCKDOWN MAY LEAD TO VIOLENCE, AND THEY ARE QUESTIONING WHETHER THE GET-TOUGH POLICY IN THAT STATE'S PRISONS WAS SUCH A GOOD IDEA.

NPR'S SYLVIA POGGIOLI REPORTS FROM BELGRADE ON THE LATEST CROATIAN OFFENSIVE, YESTERDAY, AGAINST THE SERB-HELD REGION OF KRIYINA (cry-YEEN-ah).

HAYDN SONATAS: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH MARTIN GOLDSMITH, THE HOST OF NPR'S "PERFORMANCE TODAY," ABOUT A RECENTLY RELEASED CD BY PAUL BADURA-SKODA "SIX LOST PIANO SONATAS BY JOSEPH HAYN - UNAUTHORIZED VERSION" ON THE KOCH-SCHWANN LABEL.

Daniel talks with New York times Correspondent David Sager who is in Hanoi, North Vietnam. U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher travelled to Hanoi to open the American Embassy there. It's the first time an American Secretary of State has set foot in Hanoi.

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

THIS MORNING, SHANNON FAULKNER IS SCHEDULED TO REPORT FOR CLASSES AT THE CITADEL. WE LISTEN TO PART OF AN INTERVIEW DONE LAST MONTH WHERE NPR'S LINDA WERTHEIMER ASKED SHANNON FAULKNER ABOUT THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN ... AS LEADERS.

BOSNIA: HOST SUSAN STAMBERG TALKS WITH NPR'S TOM GJELTEN IN BIHAC ABOUT THE FIRST U.N. AID CONVOYS TO GET THROUGH TO THE ENCLAVE SINCE LAST NOVEMBER. THE SO-CALLED U.N. SAFE ZONE HAS BEEN UNDER SEIGE FOR NEARLY THREE YEARS; LAST WEEK THE CROATIAN ARMY ROUTED THE KRAJINA SERBS, OPENING A PATH FOR THE U.N. AID TRUCKS.

HOST SUSAN STAMBERG READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.