Good afternoon, everyone. My name is jennifer, im a curator here in the Smithsonians National air and space museum, and i want to welcome all of you and send a quick thank you to our sponsor boeing. Im hoping all of you are excited as i am. As somebody who watches a lot of things on its about space, Jeffrey Kluger is a familiar face to me, certainly. He is the editor at large for Time Magazine, and hes also a local. Hes also the author of multiple books on topics on everything from narcissism to polio to siblings. Notably for today, at least in the context of this museum, hes the author of two books that well bring up, i think, other the course of this time. First, lost moon which he published in 1994 which is the story of apollo 13, of course, the inspiration for that movie. And today hell be not only talking about his new book, but also signing the book afterwards just outside the gallery if youre so interested. The book is apollo 8 the thrilling story of the First Mission to the moo
Perspective on the north korean policies, asianpacific securi security. Thank you very much. I am mike green Senior Vice President for asia and professor at georgetown. We had five issue papers with others for each paper on each subject from the us and china. We split the panels up so that this panel will address the papers on us and chinese strategy in the asianpacific region and also us China Military issues. The next panel cover economics, global issues and politics. Scott kennedy will try that session. We had a number of participants who helped write the papers or who joined us in study groups to review the papers and this is a Representative Group with everyone involved in the key authors we will address in the panels. Buddy glaser, Senior Advisor and director of our China Project will talk about the asiapacific papers and we will ask the panelists not to summarize the papers which identify between the american issues of convergence, divergence and some recommendations. My friend
Oversees the selected agent work. They both need to be there. Let me just say that weve seen this in this subcommittee not just at cdc. We have also seen it in the labs. And we saw it atl where data disappeared because a researcher took it home to his house. Its the same kind of or whatever. Its an assumption that theres Important Research going on and that nothing bad is going to happen. Correct. So what i think is that in fairness, i think what dr. Freeden thinks, too, is you need to put systems in place so that its not relying on somebody to have that kind of judgment where really you should have a system. Would you agree with that . Absolutely. And mr. Kaufman, would you also . Absolutely. Great. Thanks mr. Chairman. I dont have anything further. Thank you for clarifying. Thank you. Recognizing mr. Blackburn of tennessee. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I think were on the same path here with our questions. Dr. Ebright, lets go back to the cdc report from the 2004 anthrax incident. Yes. Y
Bring an advisor and have them tell us every way what about the National Science Advisory Board . That is not the current planned. That is not the current plan. They purged half their members from the board. I was inquisitive whether you knew about this. Why the administration took this action. Whether an ih consultant nih consulted. You will have to do for to them. That eliminates one question. In light of the anthrax incident they recently completed you think inspections were sufficient . I do. The protocols were in place because of the primary cause of the incident, which was the the bacteria was not inactivated, it was transferred to a laboratory that would not this is early have to have a locked cabinet. When we provide a report on select agents, as indicated earlier, we report on those laboratories where the select agent went. In this case not deactivated. That concludes my questions. I yield back the balance of my time. The speaker week recognizes mr. Long. Thank you. Docrtor, a
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