Good evening everybody and welcome. My name is simon, im the executive director or of the ethics center. Along with our partners advance which is a network of australians around the world, the Globalization Program and the council of ethics and international fair, id like to welcome you all to the session within our program shades of red and blue. The reason why weve convened this session is because we think its essential to bring together for the first time people who are distributed across the political system in which in my country and i suspect also here there is very little by way of conversation and a lot of shouting at people. We are all facing issues of profound importance which we think theyre better addressed by allowing for principal disagreement where people of conviction in different perspective might come together and engage. The topics that we will be talking about during the course of this day, one of the most is going to be addressed this afternoon. Before i go to the
Good evening, everybody and welcome. I am the executive rector of the Ethics Center in along with our partners which is a network of australians dotted the carnegierld, council on ethics and national affairs, i would like you to welcome you to the session within our program, shades of red and blue. The reason why we have convened this session, that is our partners have been because we think it is essential to bring together sometimes for the first did people who this to be across the political spectrum within which spectrum within there is little by way of and a lot of shouting at people. We are all facing issues of profound importance which we think are better addressed by allowing for moments of principled disagreement, moments when people of conviction from different perspectives might come together and respectfully engage. Of all the topics we will be talking about between the course of this day, one of the most sensitive is that which is going to be addressed this afternoon. He fo
Ter, looking at ethnics looking at ethics and religion. This is about an hour. Good evening, everybody, and welcome. My name is simon longstaff. Director ofcutive the Ethics Center and along with our partners which is a network of australians dotted around the world, the Carnegie Council on ethics and international affairs, i would like to welcome you all here to this session within our program, shades of red and blue. The reason why we have convened this session, that is our partners have been because we think it is essential to bring together sometimes for the first time people who this to be did across the political spectrum within which spectrum within which there is little by way of conversation and a lot of shouting at people. We are all facing issues of profound importance which we think are better addressed by allowing for moments of principled disagreement, moments when people of conviction from different perspectives might come together and respectfully engage. Of all the top
Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, just a few words of welcome today. Im tom blanton. Im director of the National Security archive at George Washington university and honored to be one of the organizers of today. This is the day, 25 years ago, that president george h. W. Bush signed the nunnlugar legislation into law. Now, being document fetishists, we scanned the bush library for the photographs of that extraordinary moment, and none exist. There was not even a signing ceremony, which gives you a sense of the kind of mixed opinion inside the Bush Administration about this Congressional Initiative in Foreign Policy. But the judgment of history is in. The wall street journal called the nunnlugar legislation one of the most prescient pieces of legislation ever enacted. And today on the National Security archive website you can see the declassified documents showing the real danger of that time, the first ever declassified list of the 3,429 soviet Strategic Nuclear warheads that
Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, just a few words of welcome today. Im tom blanton. Im director of the National Security archive at George Washington university and honored to be one of the organizers of today. This is the day, 25 years ago, that president george h. W. Bush signed the nunnlugar legislation into law. Now, being document fetishists, we scanned the bush library for the photographs of that extraordinary moment, and none exist. There was not even a signing ceremony, which gives you a sense of the kind of mixed opinion inside the Bush Administration about this Congressional Initiative in Foreign Policy. But the judgment of history is in. The wall street journal called the nunnlugar legislation one of the most prescient pieces of legislation ever enacted. And today on the National Security archive website you can see the declassified documents showing the real danger of that time, the first ever declassified list of the 3,429 soviet Strategic Nuclear warheads that