Threatening to increase their Nuclear Capacity and china is also expanding its nuclear arsenal. Other countries with Nuclear Ambitions such as north korea. The question this week is the new arms race a more dangerous world . To discuss that question, i am joined in the studio by constanze stelzenmuller, who is an expert on Security Issues with the Brookings Institute in washington. She says the world has become a more dangerous in the last 12 months. Problems with effective arms only one of several reasons. Also with us is malte lehming, an editor with der tagesspiegel. He argues that none of the great powers profit from any kind of military escalation. The world is getting very unpredictable but not necessarily more dangerous. And a warm welcome also to xanthe hall from the german section of the International Campaign to abolish Nuclear Weapons weapons, widely known as ican. She says since the adoption of a nuclear ban by the united nations, she is optimistic that Nuclear Weapons will
Nuclear weapons and u. S. National security policy. Hosted by the Brookings Institution its about 2 hours. Were thrilled to have you here today to discuss the Trump Administration Nuclear Posture review. An important document that came out on grounds hog day, february 2nd. And the National Defense strategy of january. So doing a nice job keeping the clock running smoothly. Prior to now the unveiling of the budget request. Were thrilled to have david beginning our discussion today. He has one of the longer titles but most important. The Principal Deputy under secretary for defense of policy. A job that jim miller had and well talk about that in the panel that follows with jim and others. But for now, i want to introduce david who has been one of the administrations important authors and framing and writing of the document that we have available and you can access on the internet. About a 70 page document, much longer than the unclassified version of the National Defense strategy. A lot
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Good evening, everyone. Thank you for coming, and welcome. My name is Amanda Woodward and i am the dean of the division of social sciences here at the university of chicago. Im just delighted to be here with this group of faculty for this event. This evening is continuing a yearlong series of events at the university of chicago commemorating the 75th 75th anniversary of the selfsustaining Nuclear Chain reaction that happened just over there. And over the past five months there have been events across campus commemorating the breakthrough and exploring the experiments longterm impact and defense has presented opportunities to engage scientist, are artists, policymakers and the public around a set of issues that grow from that original event 75 years ago. Now, this evenings discussion im particularly delight because it brings social science into the conversation in just the way it should be. Our panelists will be introduced in just a moment. Each is a scholar in International Relations a
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