As all you know took office last spring, has been office now for six months. Its been an incredibly busy time for the new laws passed, focus on anticorruption and then also just this week its hard to believe it was only four days ago that nobody meeting took place with president zelensky, president putin i think had a first meeting facetoface meeting since 2016. Mr. Macron, mrs. Merkel as well during the time that the people of our interest to get a better understanding of the outcome of that meeting. Theres a sense of different obligations, responsibilities that came out of that meeting, including the rada passing i think an extension of special status, the don bosco part of the donbass which you will explain but were hoping really today to speak to you about a couple different issues and conversation. Well story and then open it up to those who are participating. This is an on the record conversation and we very much appreciate that you could be here and spend some time but really to
Hudson. My name is richard weitz, and the director of the center for political director of the center for political and military analysis here at hudson. Today we are honored to talk about an important report and the port subject that is congressional efforts to oversee the u. S. Nuclear security efforts. We are specifically going to talk about a report, copies of which are outside, by the partnerships to secure america and Arms Control Association on empowering congress a nuclear authority, blueprints for a new generation. I want to take the welcome the cspan audience for joining us. To make everything easier, if people could silence any cell phones you might have now, that would be very helpful. The report and either work we have been doing with partnerships to secure america and Arms Control Association has been over a year, and independent project over collaborated with these organizations last you doing through events on hill, congressional briefings on the Nuclear Threat, the too
Hudson. I am the director of the center for political military knowledge. Today we are honored to talk about an important report, important subject, congressional efforts to oversee the Nuclear Security effort, more specifically a report copies of which are outside by the partnership for secure america and the Arms Control Association on empowering blueprints for a new generation. I want to welcome the cspan audience for joining us. To make everything easier if people can silence any cell phones you might have, that would be very helpful. The work we have been doing with the association, we collaborated with two organizations the last year and doing three events on the hill congressional briefings on Nuclear Threats and tools of the trade, encountering the threat and the global Nuclear Security architecture. The report and presentations we gave in congress, the Macarthur Foundation. The agenda for today, we have 3 presentations that will discuss the importance of congressional Nuclear
Download the free app or wherever you get your podcasts. Next, a discussion about u. S. Nuclear deterrence options and challenges. Talking about russia, china, north koreas capabilities. This is hosted by the Exchange Monitor Nuclear Deterrents summit. [inaudible conversations] right now, were going to have a session starting now and woven its way through the conference. So, if you want to take your seats i will have david and jeff prater introduce you to our panel. Here you go. Thank you very much. All right, well, thank you very much, nancy, and we want to thank everyone still out there staying until the bitter end and to hear what i regard not only a very important and phenal panel of the day, with four speakers that i promise will not just im jeff prater, and with me to moderate the q a today is my fellow cofounder and managing director, david charrington. We stood at the center to focus on educating policy makers, most importantly, new Congressional Staff on the u. S. Strategic Nu
Russia and china pose in these areas. This is just over two hours good morning. The Committee Meets today to receive testimony from general anthony cotton, commander of u. S. Strategic command or stratcom. And whiting, commander of u. S. Spacecom or spacecom. Gentlemen, thank you for your service to the nation and extend our thanks to the men and women who serve with you. As in the past we have asked the commanders the stratcom and until 2019. Spacecom was a part of Strategic Command. Mr. Reed as spacecom continues as an independent command, its important to identify any gaps or seams that emerged during the transition. On the global stage,si reckless. Recent press reports state that russia is considering violating rnnal space treaties and endangering the global use of space for Vital Communications and sensing. Further, putin has stab the strategy stability and arms control policies both our nations have respected for decades. Over the past year,has suspended its participation in the