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 basically got to a point where the Nuclear Arms Race had buried them in economically. They were devastated. There was a
Acts 25th anniversary, a panel of government officials and policymakers discuss their role in implementing the legislation. This 80 Minute Program was cohosted by the National Security archive. The carnegie corporation, the Carnegie Endowment and the Nuclear Threat initiative. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for your attention. We have some real heroes of the implementation of nonlugar. I turn this panel over to David Hoffman to moderate the biographies of these extraordinary individuals. They are in your program. I will not spend our time going over those, but i want to turn it to David Hoffman for his penetrating questions and authoritarian moderation. [laughter] david thank you all again for joining us for the second panel. You heard in the first panel some discussion about the hopes and also some of the disappointments, but where the rubber meets the road is where this panel is about. Is about implementation. And as all of us know from 25 years of experience, it is one th
Acts 25th anniversary, a panel of government officials and policymakers discuss their role in implementing the legislation. This 80 Minute Program was cohosted by the National Security archive. The carnegie corporation, the Carnegie Endowment and the Nuclear Threat initiative. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for your attention. We have some real heroes of the implementation of nonlugar. I turn this panel over to David Hoffman to moderate the biographies of these extraordinary individuals. They are in your program. I will not spend our time going over those, but i want to turn it to David Hoffman for his penetrating questions and authoritarian moderation. [laughter] david thank you all again for joining us for the second panel. You heard in the first panel some discussion about the hopes and also some of the disappointments, but where the rubber meets the road is where this panel is about. Is about implementation. And as all of us know from 25 years of experience, it is one th
Dismantling, destruction of soviet nuclear and chemical weapons. Next, former senators sam nunn and Richard Lugar marked the 25th anniversary of the initiative in the historic kennedy caucus room on capitol hill. Hopehour and 15 minute discussion and Award Ceremony was hosted by the National Security archive, the Carnegie Endowment, and the Nuclear Threat initiative. Thomas blanton ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, just a few words of welcome today. I am tom blanton, i am director of the National Security archive at George Washington university and honored to be one of the organizers of today. This is the day that 25 years ago president george h. W. Bush signed the nunnlugar legislation into law. Now being document fetishists, we scoured the bush library for the photographs of that extraordinary moment, and none exist. There was not a signing ceremony, which gives you a sense of the kind of mixed opinion in the Bush Administration about this Congressional Initiative in foreig
Implementation of nonlugar. I turn this panel over to David Hoffman to moderate the biographies of these extraordinary individuals. They are in your program. I will not spend our time going over those, but i want to turn it to David Hoffman for his penetrating questions and authoritarian moderation. [laughter] david thank you all again for joining us for the second panel. You heard in the first panel some discussion about the hopes and also some of the disappointments, but where the rubber meets the road is where this panel is about. Is about implementation. And as all of us know from 25 years of experience, it is one thing to give a good speech on the senate floor, it is another thing to get a missile silo closed in ukraine. And i hope this panel will help us understand how some of those accomplishments were actually carried out. It is my experience in my reporting that there were hundreds, probably thousands of people involved in this implementation. They are not all here. But in my