From. [inaudible] its my pleasure to moderate this discussion with a group of folks who are prime movers in the development of the nature posture review. I will introduce them in a moment. We are not calling this a panel. Each group will give us five or ten minutes. We will get some conversation for the group going. Most of you know the group and let me introduce rob the Deputy Assistant secretary for defense for Nuclear Defense policy. Greg weaver is strategic director for staff j5. He runs the Defense Program shop and anita is the acting assistant secretary from the bureau of arms control. Im very pleased we can gather this group and we are looking forward to the discussion. As i said we will start with introductory remarks from each of our guests and then we will go in the following order. Well start with greg and go to phil, anita and rob has asked to clean up today. Thats what well do. Greg over to you. Thank you. When i thought i would do in my brief remarks is give you all a lit
Maybe we will get some conversation going. We will say the last part of our time in the session for questions from the audience save the last part of our time in the session for questions from the audience. Let me quickly introduce our group. The. Ght is we have the Principal Assistant deputy administrator at nsa, where he runs the defense program. Anita is the acting system secretary of state from the bureau arms and control. Im very pleased that we can gather the screw. This group here. Greg, going to start with then we will go to phil, anita. Greg, over to you. Greg what i thought i would do in my brief remarks is give you a little more insight into the tookach that 3 departments in conducting the Nuclear Posture review over the last year. Generalemphasize what hyten said. This is a threatbased and strategy based review. I will talk more about the approach that we took and how we did that. Onant to focus my brief time giving you a little more understanding of the rationale behind wh
Snatches a child instead. Thats quite a tease. Look who is joining us. Power lunch starts right now. Welcome, im becky quick. All three indices up for the Third Straight session. Take a look at this now. The s p up over ten points. The defense is in focus after billions of dollars in deals announced in saudi arabia. Lockheed martin one of the big beneficiaries of the deals it announced. Lockheed hit a new high, some of the other defense stocks also hitting lifetime highs. Oil is on the move crossing 51 and hitting the highest level in more than a month. Right now sitting back below that at 50. 65. Amazon hitting another alltime high. Up more than 120 . This comes ahead of tomorrows shareholder meeting. Becky, its a privilege to have you on the program. Ill keep the coffee brewing. We begin with the president who in just moments will be speaking from israel. All of this taking place before a dinner with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Were also waiting on the president to make a join
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Wonderful panel that we have. Im just going to be making a personal introduction and very shortly turning it over to my colleague. Tom mann who is a senior fellow in governance studies and then of course needs no introduction to all of you but of course Julia Gillard australias first Prime Minister and e. J. Dionne. First female Prime Minister. [laughter] thank you. She really looks great, doesnt she . The first female Prime Minister. [laughter] and then the e. J. Dionne. The laughter covered up your intrae. J. Senior fellow for government studies. We are going to and note lots of people in the audience but just two people. Welcome to ambassador kim beazley who is also the former leader of the labour party and tonya who is currently the deputy of the leader Party Labour Party and shadow foreign minister so welcome to all of you. Its my pleasure to introduce the session the likes of an australian Prime Minister, first female Prime Minister. I am now going to be haunted by that julia. Ju