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Security. And, lastly, and this is important particularly in light of the metcalf incident, that has been talked about here, and theyre in the early stages of this but the, they are working on working on a project to develop security, security protections, physical protections and others for substations. So thats going to be extremely critical also. Were very proud of the work that is done at the Idaho National laboratory. Like i said they are reknowned when it comes to Nuclear Energy but there are these new areas that they are developing and Grid Security is certainly one of the things that theyre going to be focusing on. The reason i wanted to say what ive said about this is i want to make sure that everyone in the industry, everyone in the government agencies, knows that these facilities are available because sometimes they have a tendency to fly under the radar. So i want to state that for the record and thank you for making the time available, madam chairman. Thank you, senator ri
And the implications of the Virtual Currencies also other block chainbased applications for the future broadly and i will get into what i mean in a little bit. We are a Nonpartisan Organization that promotes constructive u. S. And european leadership in the world and who meets todays challenge is working with our allies. But we also serve a Public Education function. And i really cant tell you how many people from what i would call that traditional constituency of the Atlanta Council, which is a Longstanding Institution in washington. How many people have come to me and said what is this thing called this claim bitcoin, will it be here tomorrow or will it be here in 2050, and that is part of the reason i decided we should have an event that sort of performs these functions but i try to bring together a nontraditional panel with a lot of distinctive experts from distinct as the plans. Im thrilled and honored that they are here today to explain what bitcoin is, what it means for the futu
Service in washington, moscow and the united nations. To his right, the policy director for the Norwegian Ministry of defense. He served as director general or Security Policy director for the Norwegian Defense since 1995 and in that capacity really became known as the father of nato Security Policy. Its a delight to have you with us. He also served at nato headquarters and is one of the architects of this project that were working on. And the director here at the Atlanta Council who will speak about the terms in the cyber realm. He served as a policy director at the white house, as executive director at Goldman Sachs asia and u. S. Air force Intelligence Officer in the recently published a fierce domain, terrific history of prior conflict in cyberspace. So with that let me come back to you to kick off this discussion given the world that fred laid out what is the relevance of the meaning of deterrence as we look into the future . Thank you for the easy questions that you have posed to
Steinmeyer has had some interesting ideas. He has talked about the fact that, you know, while the Atlantic Alliance may resonate for people of our generation, we have to think about how german youth snowden is much more popular among german youth i would submit than president obama today. I mean obama was a rock star in 2008. If there is a rock star in germany today, it is edward snowden. And that is a serious state of affairs, ladies and gentlemen. And it needs addressing. Stein meyer has proposed a kind after cybersecurity summit or conference or dialogue and i think more than ttip or these far off ideas we need something in the nearer term that really addresses these issues. Because young people in europe need reminding of what, of what the transatlantic the most successful at liance in human history. What it has achieved, what it means and why its important in light of what president putin has done today. Has done of late. There needs to be finally, i think, some real focus on just