2017 Arms Control Association annual meeting. Im the executive director of the Arms Control Association and as most of you know were an independent nonpartisan Membership Organization established in 1971 and dedicated to reducing and eliminating the threats post by the worlds most dangerous weapons which could, of course, be nuclear, biological as well as conventional weapon that is that pose particular waharm and risk to civilians. You can find out more about the Arms Control Association, its history, ongoing work and to get more information about these issues through our website, armscontrol. Org and you can follow us on twitter on arms control now. The latest issue of our arms control today just went online, so you can check that out there and you can check out resources on our arms control app which is simply arms control on all of the app stores. We are very pleased to see so many of you here today, members, friends, colleagues from the Diplomatic Community and we welcome you thos
2017 Arms Control Association annual meeting. Im the executive director of the Arms Control Association and as most of you know were an independent nonpartisan Membership Organization established in 1971 and dedicated to reducing and eliminating the threats post by the worlds most dangerous weapons which could, of course, be nuclear, biological as well as conventional weapon that is that pose particular waharm and risk to civilians. You can find out more about the Arms Control Association, its history, ongoing work and to get more information about these issues through our website, armscontrol. Org and you can follow us on twitter on arms control now. The latest issue of our arms control today just went online, so you can check that out there and you can check out resources on our arms control app which is simply arms control on all of the app stores. We are very pleased to see so many of you here today, members, friends, colleagues from the Diplomatic Community and we welcome you thos
Bea this person. They said you will not be a very good woman, you should just be a man. And that really upset me. That full report in the next 15 mins or so. And an american nhs doctor tells this programme hes been separated from his family because of a mix up over his visa which means adopted sons were prevented Fromjoining Him in birmingham even though his birth son was allowed to move to the uk it was scary for them because they we re it was scary for them because they were fingerprinted and put in a holding cell, a nice holding cell, but they knew they were being detained. We are completely separated and we cannot make plans. Half the family is gone and i have iio half the family is gone and i have no idea when they are going to be back. Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11. Later on, well hear about the Google Employee who says biological differences between the way men and women are wired is the reason there are so few women in tech jobs. The guy says women tend to
Case of a nuclear attack. There was a lot of fear in the country. Bomb shelters were being built around the country. I made the joke all the time that the actual material that school desks were made of could actually stop a nuclear holocaust. [laughter] rob not true, but we used to joke about it. What happened was the cold war ended. Had,ber of administrations for a short period of time become a window where we all felt kind of ok, where the world is moving in the direction weve all wanted it to move, and a democratic direction where democracy was now starting to take hold, even in the former soviet union. It was very shortlived. We saw a man named Vladimir Putin, who was a former kgb void,al, fill a essentially taking over in a lot of chaos and an inability to make that transition to a democracy. He moved in, took advantage of the chaos, and started an authoritarian state, which meant ,imiting the freedom of speech clamping down on dissidents, even murder. We, and the cold war, had ba
Case of a nuclear attack. There was a lot of fear in the country. Bomb shelters were being built around the country. I made the joke all the time that the actual material that school desks were made of could actually stop a nuclear holocaust. [laughter] rob not true, but we used to joke about it. What happened was the cold war ended. Had,ber of administrations for a short period of time become a window where we all felt kind of ok, where the world is moving in the direction weve all wanted it to move, and a democratic direction where democracy was now starting to take hold, even in the former soviet union. It was very shortlived. We saw a man named Vladimir Putin, who was a former kgb void,al, fill a essentially taking over in a lot of chaos and an inability to make that transition to a democracy. He moved in, took advantage of the chaos, and started an authoritarian state, which meant ,imiting the freedom of speech clamping down on dissidents, even murder. We, and the cold war, had ba