This comes as u. S. Intelligence officials are now reportedly withholdlding Sensitive Information from the Trump Administration because they arae concernened it could be l leaker compromised. His donanald trump at t war wits own intelligigence agencies . The intelliligence commununity,heyy have e x ways frfrom sunday and getting backct yoyou. So eveven for a praractical supposedly hardnosed businessman, he is being really dumb to do this. Amy we will speak with Glenn Greenwald of the intercept. His most recent hes isis headlined, the leakers who exposed gen. Flynns lie committed serious and wholly justified felonies. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President donald trump on wednesday ended a longstanding u. S. Commitment to the establishment of a palestinian state, saying he had no preference for either a onestate or twostate solution to the israeaelipalestinian conflict. Trumps comment came during
This comes as u. S. Intelligence officials are now reportedly withholdlding Sensitive Information from the Trump Administration because they arae concernened it could be l leaker compromised. His donanald trump at t war wits own intelligigence agencies . The intelliligence commununity,heyy have e x ways frfrom sunday and getting backct yoyou. So eveven for a praractical supposedly hardnosed businessman, he is being really dumb to do this. Amy we will speak with Glenn Greenwald of the intercept. His most recent hes isis headlined, the leakers who exposed gen. Flynns lie committed serious and wholly justified felonies. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President donald trump on wednesday ended a longstanding u. S. Commitment to the establishment of a palestinian state, saying he had no preference for either a onestate or twostate solution to the israeaelipalestinian conflict. Trumps comment came during
I had the opportunity to work at several embassies around the world, white house, united nations, pentagon. In 2011 i became assistant secretary for nonproliferation, which is an appointed position chosen by the president and confirmed by the senate. I did that job since 2011. After our election, like every other president ial appointee, i tendered my resignation. I sent a simple letter to the white house saying i am prepared to leave service if the new president does not want me, otherwise i am prepared to stay. During the transition to the Trump Administration, i tried to work with the Transition Team in order to prepare them for the very specialized issues of arms control and nonproliferation that they would face. I was also prepared to stay on, as is traditional, every four prepare a new to under secretary and assistant secretary for a pretty good job. Instead, about five days after the inauguration, while i was traveling to jordan and preparing to go from this meeting in jordan wi
Deactivation of 7,500 Nuclear Warheads, and the destruction of more than 500 icbms, and close to 500 submarine launch ballistic missiles. Senator louvre was also instrumental in gaining Senate Approval of the last Nuclear Weapons treaty, signed with russia, the socalled new start treaty of 2010, which reduced significantly the number of deployable strategic Nuclear Weapons. To his right, research professor, by training the professor is a Nuclear Scientist from 1986 to 1997. He directed the laboratory that most of you know had the chief mission of ensuring the safety and reliability of the American Nuclear arsenal. In recent years, they worked with the laboratories to secure the enormous stockpile that russia inherited from the soviet union. And he is now compiling and editing a book. That hasnt come out yet, has it . It has. He compile and edited a book between american and russian laboratories since the fall of the soviet union. And at least as i understand it, you can update me, his
Role in the world at indiana universitys school of global and International Studies continues with a panel on Nuclear Nonproliferation and arms control. This is about an hour and a half. Its my pleasure to introduce them. Ive been instructed to be very brief, which is goes, because these introductions could go on for maybe an hour. So on my right here, senator richard mueller. As many of you, senator louvre represented indiana in the senate from 1977 to 2013. Hes the longest serving senator from indiana. He chaired the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1985 to 1987 and again from 2003 to 2007. And was the Ranking Member ever since 2007. So much of senator louvres work has been devoted to the challenge of dismantling nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. And to this end, senator louvre, who as you probably know is a republican, worked with senator sam nunn of georgia, a democrat, and at the time, chair of the Senate Armed Services committee to craft what became known as th