Good morning, everyone. Today i am wearing orange to observe that unjointed 21st, 2013, a High School Student from the south side of chicago marched in president obamas second inaugural parade. One week later he was shot and killed on a flagrant in chicago. Soon after his childhood friends commemorated her life by wearing orange. They chose the color because hunters wear orange in the woods to protect themselves from others. And so this day which would have been her birthday is the day that we wear orange. Every day more than 90 americans are killed you to gun violence. Thats why again, so many of us are wearing orange to Mark National gun violence awareness day. I thought it would be important for us to come together today because yesterday President Trump announced his decision to pull out of the paris climate agreement. It was a stunning abdication of American Leadership walking away from the agreement is extremely dangerous. This was my flagship issue. We all wanted to pass healthc
Doctrine, there are various large bodies of thoughts of intellectual, military and political talks going around in russia for 10 years and some of those both have the same theme and sometimes they run into each other, sometimes they dont. For those of you here in the audience who have dealt with russia for many years you know that for a fullfledged doctrine that more or less encompassesthe whole society and the whole state , you need to be pretty organized and the russians are not that organized in that regard. Theres a lot of stuff going on and Different Actors feeling their different interests and interagency competitions and put on top of that corruption so nevertheless, lets talk about what we understand on this. , some people have described it as pointed out as new generation warfare, others terminate as strategic deterrence, others determine it as cross coercion, but all those approaches have in common is that you rely on asymmetric response. So its basically a very cheap insight
Doctrine, there are various large bodies of thoughts of intellectual, military and political talks going around in russia for 10 years and some of those both have the same theme and sometimes they run into each other, sometimes they dont. For those of you here in the audience who have dealt with russia for many years you know that for a fullfledged doctrine that more or less encompassesthe whole society and the whole state , you need to be pretty organized and the russians are not that organized in that regard. Theres a lot of stuff going on and Different Actors feeling their different interests and interagency competitions and put on top of that corruption so nevertheless, lets talk about what we understand on this. , some people have described it as pointed out as new generation warfare, others terminate as strategic deterrence, others determine it as cross coercion, but all those approaches have in common is that you rely on asymmetric response. So its basically a very cheap insight
Doctrine, there are various large bodies of thoughts of intellectual, military and political talks going around in russia for 10 years and some of those both have the same theme and sometimes they run into each other, sometimes they dont. For those of you here in the audience who have dealt with russia for many years you know that for a fullfledged doctrine that more or less encompassesthe whole society and the whole state , you need to be pretty organized and the russians are not that organized in that regard. Theres a lot of stuff going on and Different Actors feeling their different interests and interagency competitions and put on top of that corruption so nevertheless, lets talk about what we understand on this. , some people have described it as pointed out as new generation warfare, others terminate as strategic deterrence, others determine it as cross coercion, but all those approaches have in common is that you rely on asymmetric response. So its basically a very cheap insight
Thank you very much. My name is randy riedel with the organization mayors for peace. Susan, i would like to ask you wait a minute. Im the moderator. I would like to draw upon your vast professional experience, and comment on the lack of any infrastructure in the government for disarmament. There are no disarmament agencies in any of the states that possess Nuclear Weapons. When the arms control and Disarmament Agency was abolished in the mid1990s, the disarmament term even disappeared from business cards and the Organization Charts in the state department. Theres very little sign of Institutional Support for disarmament in the government. Is this a problem . Is this a barrier . Is this an obstacle from the policy perspective and to tom, i would like to ask him, during the 1960s, the Lyndon Johnson administration was faced with the problem of whether nonproliferation should be a goal of u. S. Policy when they created the Patrick Commission and createded this consensus report that it sho