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
2017 Arms Control Association annual meeting. Im daryl kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, and as most of you know we are an independent nonpartisan Membership Organization established in 19 said one and we are dedicated to reducing and eliminating the threats posed by the worlds most dangerous weapons which would of course be nuclear, chemical, biological weapons as well as certain conventional weapons that pose particular harm in risk to civilians. You can find more about the Arms Control Association, its history, its ongoing work and to get more information also about these issues through website, armscontrol. Org and you can follow us on twitter at arms control now. The latest issue of our journal arms control today just went online so you can check that out there. You can also check out our resources on our arms control out which is simply arms control on all of the app stores. We are very pleased to see so many of you here today, members, friends, colleag
2017 Arms Control Association annual meeting. Im the executive director of the Arms Control Association and as most of you know were an independent nonpartisan Membership Organization established in 1971 and dedicated to reducing and eliminating the threats post by the worlds most dangerous weapons which could, of course, be nuclear, biological as well as conventional weapon that is that pose particular waharm and risk to civilians. You can find out more about the Arms Control Association, its history, ongoing work and to get more information about these issues through our website, armscontrol. Org and you can follow us on twitter on arms control now. The latest issue of our arms control today just went online, so you can check that out there and you can check out resources on our arms control app which is simply arms control on all of the app stores. We are very pleased to see so many of you here today, members, friends, colleagues from the Diplomatic Community and we welcome you thos
2017 Arms Control Association annual meeting. Im the executive director of the Arms Control Association and as most of you know were an independent nonpartisan Membership Organization established in 1971 and dedicated to reducing and eliminating the threats post by the worlds most dangerous weapons which could, of course, be nuclear, biological as well as conventional weapon that is that pose particular waharm and risk to civilians. You can find out more about the Arms Control Association, its history, ongoing work and to get more information about these issues through our website, armscontrol. Org and you can follow us on twitter on arms control now. The latest issue of our arms control today just went online, so you can check that out there and you can check out resources on our arms control app which is simply arms control on all of the app stores. We are very pleased to see so many of you here today, members, friends, colleagues from the Diplomatic Community and we welcome you thos
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