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Good evening everyone. I am so excited to see such a full house before i start i want to give a few housekeeping item items. We are more than happy to have you take photos but please turn the flash off and put your cell phones on silent. If you want to post anything on social media please tag politics prose and gw events. I am the partner manager at politics and prose and want to thank all of you for coming out on a vent we are out with George Washington University Joint venture also to bring jim mattis in conversation tonight. First a few other Exciting Events coming up in partnership with gw september 11 we have an event with Malcolm Gladwell it is a live recording of a podcast on npr on september 12 and james comey on september 16 septembe september 24 we will discuss the year of the marquis. We hope to see you at some of them this month. Secretary jim mattis a Pacific Northwest nave it is serving for decades at the marine infantry officer following two years of secretary of defense
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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