This land is my land, from california, to the New York Island sunday afternoon at 2 00 on American History tv on cspan3. Congress continues on its twoweek recess, several members are traveling. Nancy pelosi is in cambodia with a bipartisan delegation of members. The delegation visited the halo trust facility in cambodia. The delegation will travel to vietnam, korea and japan. John boehner is in the middle east. He met with iraqs prime minister. The speaker will travel to israel later this week. A press release says he and a delegation as the deadline approaches tonight for an Iranian Nuclear agreement, we present a discussion about Nuclear Weapons, National Security and the future of the bomb. Posted by the Panel Discussion for the Southern Methodist University Tower center for Political Studies and includes a former commander of u. S. Strategic command. Good evening. Welcome to smu and the special forum on Nuclear Weapons. Welcome also to the security and Strategy Program here at smu.
It as a success to a certain extent. There is a modernization going on, but if you were to have predicted chinas capabilities based on their economic and Technological Base and assume they were rivals, one could imagine a world where they had built far more than they have. Certainly, far less than they are capable of. Absolutely, we want more interaction. But in some ways you have not seen the kind of actionreaction that you saw with the soviets. Working with questions of, how low can you go . Deterrence of load numbers. What is the minimal amount . A big debate. How you answer the question depends ons depends on how you answered some of the questions i laid out in my remarks. There are some people who think that we are that we have, you know reduced quite significantly a end we are going much lower. Might be from omatic. Others think we can go much further. Let me push back on something you said. Let me push back on something you said. When you said the clash was about economics, the
But there are lots of arguments. The one interesting surprise that we point out in the historical record is that the United States went to great lengths, greater lengths than we perhaps realized in the past, to keep its friends and allies nonnuclear van itd even its enemies. Countries ranging from west germany to japan to south korea and australia, italy and sweden, the list goes on and on. In fact, issued a willingness to work with its adversary, the soviet union, against its allies to accomplish it. The third important question is an age old one how much is enough . In other words, what are the fourth and strategy requirements for Nuclear Deterrence . And are they different than the requirement for assuring allies . Can a state achieve meaningful nuclear superiority, and if so, what are the benefits of achieving such privacy . This is a comics question, but during the cold war, there were two leading views. Many of the academic and think tank analyst, renowned thinkers like bernard b
Thank you for coming this morning on such short notice. We have such a distinguished group of panelists will follow these matters. This morning i am honored to be your moderator. John i joined the National Council on u. S. Arab relations after spending 35 years in the arabian gulf in the energy field. I am well aware of the importance of the iran Nuclear Deals for the people of the regions. I would like to thank cspan for covering this event live today and for covering our briefing last thursday on yemen, held in this room. The ambassador spoke at the conclusion of that session. Coverage of last weeks briefing is available on our website. A quick word about the National Council on u. S. Arab relations. Established 33 years ago as a nonprofit organization. The guiding vision is one of education and seeks to educate about the islamic world and place relations between our allies and partners across the region on his firm a foundation as possible and continues to expand the relationship th
Primary people i was thinking about. Im glad the verdict is in. Based on everything i saw, i have no problem with it. At this point it is up to the jury to make the decision about what happens next. [inaudible] governor baker i sure do. To this day, i continue to be amazed that somebody could stand there for four minutes in front of Martin Richard and place that device right next to him. I remember going to the memorial day parade at the cedar gross cemetery. Visiting Martin Richards grave and thinking, i cannot believe somebody would do this. Do you believe the Death Penalty is appropriate . Governor baker i said last year, for a crime like this i would support the Death Penalty and i continue to. Were you watching the reports as they were coming in life . Live . Governor baker i found out the same way a lot of people did through wordofmouth. [inaudible] governor baker all the way through. Every single day, you watch these men and women standing tall in many cases. With artificial lim