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Mike Daisey Has 'Something' to Say About American Might Special to The Washington Post Wednesday, July 23, 2008; Page C05 Monologuist Mike Daisey sits at a desk onstage at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company with an outline scribbled on bits of yellow legal paper. A heavy-set guy, he perspires beneath the lights and blots his face as he literally warms to his subject. In his show "If You See Something Say Something," having its world premiere as part of the Capital Fringe Festival, Daisey tells the story of the birth of nuclear weapons in the New Mexico desert in 1945 and how he believes the possession of that terrible power changed America, and not in a good way. Daisey traces his obsession with nuclear weapons to childhood. At age 10, he says, he read "On Thermonuclear War" by Rand think-tanker Herman Kahn. "I was a very unhappy... [read full story]