Christopher ford is the assistant secretary of state for International Security and nonproliferation. He talked about Nuclear Security policy at the Stimson Center. Some other of the topics included Nuclear Terrorism prevention, efforts to denuclearize north korea, and chinas role in fostering Nuclear Security in the region. Well, ladies and gentlemen, a very good afternoon to all of you and welcome to the Stimson Center. My name is brian finlay. Im president and ceo here at the Stimson Center. For those attending this very event for the very second time, many apologies. It was not, as you may have assumed, our speakers agenda that caused the cancellation, but an exploding manhole. We started paying our bills yet the Stimson Center again and were back in business and very pleased to be welcoming dr. Christopher ford back to the stage. Chris, for those of you in the know, is of course the assistant secretary of state for International Student and nonproliferation. Chris previously has d
Hello, everybody. Are we good to go . I am mark tercek, and originally of the nature conservatory. Im glad to be the moderator of todays discussion. We have a great panel. To my left is monica de bolle from the Houston Institute for economics. To her left is daniel zarin with climate and landuse alliance and onscreen is my good friend peter seligman, cofounder and ceo of nia tero which focuses on a lot of issues we will be discussing today. He is the founder and longtime ceo of Conservation International where he continues to be the chairman. Our topic today is the Global Impact of the amazon rain forest you have been reading about in the news. This raises so many issues. First of all, what is really happening, hard to tell. How much of this is due to illegal logging, industrial ag, bad government policy, or is Climate Change itself impacting the forest . Also, the question arises, what happens . Until recently the amazon was one of the great conservation success stories. Through a gre
Christopher ford is a assistant secretary of state for International Security and nonproliferation. He talked about Nuclear Security policy at the Stimson Center. Some other of the topics included Nuclear Terrorism prevention, efforts to denuclearize north korea and chinas role in fostering Nuclear Security in the region. Ladies and gentlemen, a very good afternoon to all of you and welcome to the Stimson Center my name is brian finlay, im president and ceo here at the Stimson Center. For those attending this event for the very second time, many apologies, it was not as you may have assumed our speakers agenda that caused the cancellation, but an exploding we started paying our bills yet the Stimson Center again and were back in business and very pleased to be welcoming dr. Christopher ford back to the stage. Chris, for those of you in the know, is of course the assistant secretary of state for International Student and nonproliferation. Chris previously has done a tour on President Tr
That is not going to happen as long as our trade laws dont allow us to prevent cheating. Right now our trade laws encourage companies to cheat encourage other countries to cheat, because by the time we succeed, the damage has been done. Host larry is up next republican line. Caller good morning, pedro, mr. Gerard. Guest good morning. Caller can you inform the public about the historic 1992 ross perot, the giant sucking sound of jobs involving nafta versus bill clinton . What brought that about . Guest well, look, lets back up a bit. The initial negotiation of nafta was done with george bush senior. Bill clinton became president on the promise that he would fix nafta and in particular fix the labor chapter, which he did not do. Good afternoon. I am marilynn serafini with the alliance for health reform. On behalf of our honorary cochairman, senators carter and blunt, i would like to welcome you to todays briefing on the second of Health Care Costs. I would also like to thank our partner
4. 5 trillion balance sheet. Breaking tonight americas largest toy chain filing for bankruptcy. This was once the definition of a category killer. Dominating toy sales, reshaping how we shop and buy toys, squeezing small toy stores and now it has squeezed itself undone by disruptive on line competitors. Im not sure what this means for 64,000 u. S. Employees, but were told 1600 stores will stay open for the holidays. And bankruptcy protection could help fine narns its holiday season. The gentleman mort of its sales for the year. It also shares of mattel and hasbro fell yesterday. Wall street journal has report being what this company is going to have to do to be relevant in an amazon world. Youre going to have to have brand experiences within the store. Toy play areas, really change the look and feel the store and close underperforming stores. Thats what it has at amazon doesnt. Focus on the babies are us side. Im not sure what this means for the babies r us. Thanks for joining us. Murk