Cspan campaign 2014. More than 100 debates for the control of congress. Now a discussion on federal science policy and the use of simulation to address national threats. The chief scientist for the National Nuclear Security Agency and a special adviser to energy techtary. He addresses the university of tennessee Howard Baker Center for publictoba÷ policy in knoxv. This is about an hour. Thank you. That was an overly generous introduction. Thank you, again, taylor. I think the hospitality here at the baker center, the university of tennessee has been remarkable. Its a wonderful place, and im happy to be here. You know, as an academic who ended up in washington for some reason, i wanted to give you my personal take on computational science, what we do and kind of how i view this. I think its an interesting story, i hope youll find it interesting, too, as a beta tester, i guess this can fail and still be successful as part of your learning so we can look at it that way. So i have some fr
Rule. Each amendment shall be debatable equally controlled by a proponent and opponent. No pro forma amendment shall be be in order. And may offer up to 10 pro forma amendments for the purpose of debate. The chair of the committee of the whole, in recognition on the basis of whether the member. Amendments shall be considered read. The clerk will read. The clerk the following sums are appropriated for energy and Water Development for the fiscal year 2016. Namely, title 1 corps of engineers, Civil Department of the army, corps of engineers civil, appropriations shall be for authorized functions pertaining to river and harbor, floods and storm damage reduction and related efforts. Investigation 110 million. The chair for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona seek recognition . Mr. Gosar i have an amendment at the desk. The chair the clerk will designate the amendment. The clerk amendment offered by mr. Gosar. After the dollar amount insert increased by 1 million. Page 27, line 13,
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Weapons accident in damascus arkansas that occurred in 1980. And i use that story, that narrative as a way of looking at the management of our Nuclear Weapons really since the First Nuclear device was invented in 1945. And i hope to remind readers that these weapons are out there. That theyre still capable of being used and that theres probably no more important thing that our government does and manage them. Because these are the most dangerous machines ever built, and i think the subject has fallen off the radar quite a bit in the cold war. Host lets talk about the story. You were telling the story from the ground up. You chose tying it to missile explosion at so why that particular explosion rather than many other incidents that you can lock in the book . Guest my interest in writing about Nuclear Weapons was sparked by i spent time in the air force. I finished writing my book fast food nation and one of the officers told me as sort of the damascus accident to hed been in a Missile
Gone along way. Unfortunately the russian government, vladimir coo and are not famed for this kind of sensitivity towards ethnic minorities. Sergei reminds us in 2010 they went to the vancouver olympics, sending out the wrong signal given that the cossacks associated with the destruction of the native peoples. I dont anticipate, wouldnt anticipate any kind of effort by sarkhasian to disrupt the games. If there is these are islamists, not sarkhasian nationalists. We have seen islamists targeting people with a National Agenda in places like bulgaria in the north caucusus, we have seen a few fascinations of academics who have been trying to portray non islamist identity for the sarkhasians. Just to finally a few extra words about the north caucusus. I should also mention another reason abkhazia is problematic which no one has mentioned so i should mention september 9th the russian vice consul in abkhazia was assassinated, the main suspect is a chechen who was wounded in georgia. That is a