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
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Vice President Joe Biden has wrapped up a twoday trip to lithuania and poland where he sought to reassure nato allies in a region that the u. S. Will defend them against any russian aggression. He told a pair of baltic leaders that we are in this with you together. He spoke after russias president to cleared ukraines Crimean Peninsula as part of russia and militiamen took over ukrainian headquarters in crimea. Ukraine is not part of nato. The United Nations Security Council is meeting today on the russian issue. Meanwhile, the European Union is considering economic sanctions. The eu meeting scheduled for tomorrow and friday in brussels. Take a look at our live coverage here in cspan at 1 00 p. M. Eastern. A Heritage Foundation discussion on the Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy that will be followed by new Federal Reserve chairman Janet Yellen Holding her first meeting today as head of the fed open Market Committee and will talk to reporters after that meeting. That is scheduled to b
Which seem to come up almost annually . There is always something that comes up where science can likely inform and i think this was the case where we did quite a bit of air sampling and air modeling. We did really quite a bit of support for japan and i think there was a very positive story that came out of this understanding, what happened at the site and what it means to japan and u. S. Citizens as well or to the continental United States. There are other places. We have been working for a good year or so on trying to look at governance models. How we work, how many agencies can, and partner with us at our National Laboratories to solve some of their interesting problems. What is the way we can engage other agencies to answer their Strategic Issues using the tools we have like oak ridge or other National Laboratories. We had a conversation with Janet Napolitano on december 18 on this, saying that a Partnership Model as part of our effort to develop a stronger strategic relationship b
That is a great mistake after the end of the cold or war or was extending nato eastward. This gave russia a sense of being corner ld, and here we are. My view is more or less exactly the opposite. I think its the greatest achievement of the postcold war years was precisely extending the protection and security of both nato and the e. U. To these nations that had been enslaved within the soviet empire. And i think what were witnessing today is how much tore sight and diplomatic foresight and diplomatic brilliance was shown in achieving that. If lithuania, latvia, estonia to name the most prominent examples and perhaps the most threatened nations by putins vision of a reconstituted soviet space, if they were not within these organizations, they would be eminently at risk. And the if theres any if theres any sense left, sir, of this far but no further, it is precisely in article v of the north atlantic treaty alliance. And i still believe in it, you know . I think i dont believe the Unite