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[inaudible conversations] thank you very much for joining us for the second part of our interesting discussion on the commissions findings on strategic posture. Our first Panel Focused on what was at the heart of the report. Our second panel will focus on what they think about it in discussion with leading scholars on strategic posture and nonproliferation. Directly to my left, to reintroduce because it has been an hour, a senior fellow at forward Defense Center for strategy and security at the Atlantic Council. Is also former assistant secretary of defense for nuclear and Missile Defense policy. We have the honorable walt slocum, Board Director at the Atlantic Council and former undersecretary for policy at the department of defense and lynn rustin, the Vice President for Global Nuclear policy program at the Nuclear Threat initiative. Thank you for being with us today to share your own thoughts. I would like to kick it off with a very broad question. We just heard about the findings a
Atlantic council for a Panel Discussion on u. S. Nuclear strategy and the challenges posed by china and russia. Good afternoon and welcome to the Atlantic Council for todays event. Introducing the strategic investment Posture Commission report. Im Vice President at the Atlantic Council and senior president of the center for strategy and security. This event comes at a time of significant deterioration in the International Security environment. For decades, russia was the only nuclear peer competitor to the United States, but in recent years, china has launched a rapid and farreaching Nuclear Buildup and aims to have 1500 Nuclear Weapons by 2035. This means for the first time in its history, the United States will need to contend with two nuclear peer competitors at the same time. To address this unprecedented challenge, congress established the strategic Posture Commission in the 2022 National Defense authorization act. Congress charged the commission to conduct a review of the strateg
Do not go away. [indiscernible chatter] [indiscernible chatter] hi, thank you very much for joining us of the second part of our interesting discussion on the commissions findings on strategic posture. Our first Panel Focused on what was at the heart of the report. Our second panel will focus on what they think about that in the discussion with some of the leading scholars on posture and nonproliferation. Directly to my left, a senior fellow at the center for strattera strategy and security at the event to counsel and former deputy secretary for Missile Defense policy. We have the Board Director at the Atlantic Council and the former under secretary of defense policy at the department of defense, then we have the Vice President or Global Nuclear policy program at the Nuclear Threat initiative. Thank you all for being here today to share your own thoughts, and i would like to kick it up with a very broad question. We just heard about the findings, recommendations, the buildup, but i wan
Atlantic council for a Panel Discussion on u. S. Nuclear strategy and the challenges posed by china and russia. Good afternoon and welcome to the Atlantic Council for todays event. Introducing the strategic investment Posture Commission report. Im Vice President at the Atlantic Council and senior president of the center for strategy and security. This event comes at a time of significant deterioration in the International Security environment. For decades, russia was the only nuclear peer competitor to the United States, but in recent years, china has launched a rapid and farreaching Nuclear Buildup and aims to have 1500 Nuclear Weapons by 2035. This means for the first time in its history, the United States will need to contend with two nuclear peer competitors at the same time. To address this unprecedented challenge, congress established the strategic Posture Commission in the 2022 National Defense authorization act. Congress charged the commission to conduct a review of the strateg