Mass destruction. He spoke to the Arms Control Association about the Trump Administration strategy for north korea, relations with russia and the iran nuclear agreement. Welcome back everyone. Welcome back then please find your seats so we can resume here at the Arms Control Association net annual meeting with our first keynote speaker of the day. Thank you. Once again, im darrell kimball, director of the Arms Control Association. My friends are here for our 2017 Arms Control Association annual meeting. Please to have with us today Christopher Ford whose special assistant to the president and senior director for weapons of mass instruction and counter proliferation policy at the National Security council. Chris who has extensive experience on these issues has been on the professional staff of the Senate Relations committee, banking committee, easter on the personal staff of a senator Susan Collins as her National Security advisor and before that he served at the state department as a s