And its encouraging that we have continued to make progress since then. First, the amount of Nuclear Material in circulation continues to decline. More and more excess Nuclear Material is being stored and handled in a sustainable manner, like the recent shipment of excess plutonium and highly enriched uranium from japan to the United States. And the use of lowenriched uranium for the production of medical isotopes and other purposes is on the rise. Second, the material that is out there is being made more secure as more countries turn the iaeas recommendations into national legislation. Since the hague summit, 37 have committed to doing so most recently, jordan and china. And indeed, third, International Cooperation and commitment continue to grow. And the imminent entry into force of the amended convention on the physical protection of Nuclear Material is a great achievement. And this important milestone reinforces our efforts at this summit today. Im also delighted that earlier summi
I think the events in paris and belgium underscore the importance of this conference. Notice how it changed the last four or five years from talking about deescalating the threat of Nuclear Weapons to the issue of loose nukes and terrorist events that use dirty bombs and Nuclear Weapons against the west. Its a complete achange. I think everybody realizes, everybody in the west realized one of isiss principle goals is to score a weapons of mass destruction event in the west. God forbid a Nuclear Weapon. It could be just a dirty bomb in a large western city, and we know from the event of the last two days that no one has completely accounted for the thousands of tons of Nuclear Material thats scattered all over the world. And to bring the nations together to find this stuff and put it under lock and key, keep it out of the hand of isis is job one, charles. Charles you are on Donald Trumps Foreign Policy team, walid. Nuclear weapons with respect to europe and rearming south korea and japa
Done against the band organization in pakistan. I to be very honest, i would not agree with that the assessment for the simple reason that why we launched the operation in the north which was a huge success, simultaneously, we also launched operations against various coming up live next, a hearing on u. S. pakistan relays. Richard olson will testify this morning before the House Foreign Affairs committee. This is live coverage on cspan3. And maybe some of the other members will be able to as well. So this hearing is on the future of u. S. pakistan relations. The committee has repeatedly urged pakistan to take meaningful action against key islamist terrorist groups operating within its territory. Pakistan which is now home to the worlds Fastest Growing Nuclear Weapons program has remained a fount of radical islamist thought. It was no surprise that one of the San Bernardino attackers Tashfeen Malik studied at a Pakistani School spreading a particularly fundamentalist message. After more
But for the First Time Since maybe the 1980s, maybe even the 1960s, today were confronting a real possibility that Vladimir Putin might decide to use Nuclear Weapons in the war in ukraine. Terrifying possibility. This is a kind of wild eyed scenario that used to be able to read about only in the back pages of obscure rand reports, but its here in real life right now today. So the book were talking about today arrives at exactly the right time. The book is called winning and losing the Nuclear Peace and its about the decadelong effort to reduce Global Nuclear dangers. And were fortunate of the author Michael Krepon here with us to talk about it today. Michael is the cofounder and distinguished senior fellow at the stimson center. He cofounded the stimson center. In 1989 after working the executive branch and on capitol hill. He received the Carnegie Endowment award for Lifetime Achievement in nongovernmental work to reduce Nuclear Dangers in 2015. For people like me, thats like being vo
For state Department Officials resigned after reports for lack of security at the u. S. Benghazi, libya. Wittiest ambassador and three other americans were killed. At 8 a. M. Eastern the Senate Foreign relations committee, we will have that on cspan2. Later in the day, we will head over to the house side of the capitol. We have live coverage at 1 p. M. Eastern here on cspan3. Our First Experience was to come in a different way than every of them appear, probably will never happen again in history. Its interesting because after dad was sworn in we went in and took a picture, photo of the family behind the oval office desk, and that night we didnt get to move into the white house because nixon had left so quickly, so unexpectedly, they left their daughter and soninlaw, david eisenhower, to pack all their clothes and belongings. Literally took seven or eight days. We had to go back to our little house in alexander virginia, suburbia, munich, the neighborhood was surrounded by secret servi