Affected, most particularly those the north of the blast. About 70 of the radioactive fallout from the chernobyl disaster landed in the region that is today southern belarus. Despite taking place 30 years ago, the people there are still suffering. The weather is sunny just like it was thirty years ago. Back then, inga vanzonok was a carefree young girl. Her father mikhail was a healthy young man. Both can clearly remember april 26 1986. There was a cloud of dust and sand. It was coming from chernobyl and drifting towards our city. When we saw it, we tried to flee. We hailed a taxi and drove off. But it was hopeless. The cloud was huge. We couldnt escape it. The radioactive dust cloud changed the vanzonoks life for ever. First, the doctors discovered that mikhail had stomach cancer. Now, 30 years later, his daughter has suddenly developed thyroid cancer. I never showed signs of radiation exposure, so i thought id be ok after this length of time. Now i realize that radioactivity causes a
Millions of people were affected, most particularly those the north of the blast. About 70 of the radioactive fallout from the chernobyl disaster landed in the region that is today southern belarus. Despite taking place 30 years ago, the people there are still suffering. The weather is sunny just like it was thirty years ago. Back then, inga vanzonok was a carefree young girl. Her father mikhail was a healthy young man. Both can clearly remember april 26 1986. There was a cloud of dust and sand. It was coming from chernobyl and drifting towards our city. When we saw it, we tried to flee. We hailed a taxi and drove off. But it was hopeless. The cloud was huge. We couldnt escape it. The radioactive dust cloud changed the vanzonoks life for ever. First, the doctors discovered that mikhail had stomach cancer. Now, 30 years later, his daughter has suddenly developed thyroid cancer. I never showed signs of radiation exposure, so i thought id be ok after this length of time. Now i realize tha
Many of our adversaries spent the decades to reshape their militaries and developing technologies to thwart americas military advantages. As well hear today, many of the technologies that made america the unparalleled Global Military power just 15 to 20 years ago, they are pro proliferating to others. Our adversaries are fielding new technologies from cyber to space in order to defeat our military advantages. At the same time, we face growing networks of violent islamic extremists that will engage us in a low conflict of technology and will for decades to come. As the Bipartisan National Defense Panel warned in future, quote, conflicts are likely to unfold more rapidly, battlefields will be more lethal. Operational sanctuary will be scares and fleeting. Conflict will be the norm in this rapidly changing environment. U. S. Military superiority is not a given. And yet since the end of the cold war a quarter century ago, the United States has maintained a similar but ever shrinking versio
Typically receive from American Military personnel that remain in afghanistan. Drawing thism analogy is because it is consistent with the broader strategyerrorism that the president laid out, i believe in his west point speech, in which you said that the United States needs to develop more capability when it comes to enhancing the capacity of local forces around the world to prevent extremists and terrorists elements from establishing a toehold in their country. We have talked about how this is an important part of our relationship inside afghanistan building the capacity of Afghan National security forces. A long debate about the situation in yemen. Previously, before that country was assumed by a civil war, the United States was able to partner effectively with your many yemeni National Security forces to take strikes, or at least mitigate the risks posed by opposition forces, operating in yemen. It has been diminished because we do not have a Central Government with whom we can orde
You asked about where defense fits in this. Clearly, outreach. The profoundly a political activity. There is a bit to the offer that we in the americans and others are involved in. I think our Principal Task is likely involved in trading the army and developing the capacity of the army to ensure that the armeded forces are balanced, credible and as non sectarian as can be. The army was a sunni army. Had been undermined by corruption and appointing by then Prime Minister and building something that has more substance, that is more balanced and trusted across the communities is clearly the aim. We can create the space for the politics to gain ground, but if it doesnt gain ground, we are kugting a very Different Military campaign. There are elements of pressure not to encourage them to split those pressure b in tehran, tied in of course to other iranian ambitions there, but to convince them that an inclusive goth that brings the kurds and sunnis in is better than being on the front lines