well, good afternoon, everyone. my name is chuck deaver. i m a vice president. the texas public policy foundation. and we re delighted to have you here with us for a fascinating discuss lesson about the use of poisons in national policy. this is something that as a now retired u.s. army intelligence officer i was certainly aware, but until i read this book, i had no idea scale that these poisons were deployed by the former soviet union and today s successor state the russian federation as as nations like the people s republic of china and north korea. and so it s great honor to have today s presentation with the authors of the the dancer in the double stalin pavlova and the road to the great pandemic. so the book covers about 100 years of history in the use of both chemical poisons and bioweapons in a way that s, pretty sobering when you re done with the book and you realize just the magnitude of what s been done in the past. so if i may, i d like to introduce the authors we
well, good afternoon, everyone. good afternoon i am chuck devour, vice president with texas public policy foundation, we re delighted to have you here with us for a fascinating discussion about thes use of poisons in national policy, this is something that as a now retired u.s. army intelligence officer i was aware of. but until i read this book, i had no idea the scale that the poisons were deployed by the former soviet union and today s a successor state the russian federation, as well as nations like people s republic of china and north korea. it is a great honor to have today s presentation with the authors of the book, the dancer and the devil. book covers about a hundred years of history in use of both chemical poisons and bioweapons in a way that is sobering when you are done with the booming book. and you realize magnitude. i would like to introduce authors john o neill, and sara wynn. john graduated from u.s. naval academyy in 1967 and serv in vietnam. he wa
and north korea. and so it s great honor to have today s presentation with the authors of the the dancer in the double stalin pavlova and the road to the great pandemic. so the book covers about 100 years of history in the use of both chemical poisons and bioweapons in a way that s, pretty sobering when you re done with the book and you realize just the magnitude of what s been done in the past. so if i may, i d like to introduce the authors we have with us, john and sarah, when john is the coauthor with sarah of the book that we re going to be discussing this afternoon? he graduated from the united states naval academy in 1967. he in vietnam on board swift boat. so he was in what was then called the brown water navy, right. going up to the the the the rivers, the the deltas of the mekong right and probably mostly in south the southern part of south vietnam. he was decorated, of course, for his service there. he then went to university of texas law school finished there s the
well, good afternoon, everyone. my name is chuck deaver. i m a vice president. the texas public policy foundation. and we re delighted to have you here with us for a fascinating discuss lesson about the use of poisons in national policy. this is something that as a now retired u.s. army intelligence officer i was certainly aware, but until i read this book, i had no idea scale that these poisons were deployed by the former soviet union and today s successor state the russian federation as as nations like the people s republic of china and north korea. and so it s great honor to have today s presentation with the authors of the the dancer in the double stalin pavlova and the road to the great pandemic. so the book covers about 100 years of history in the use of both chemical poisons and bioweapons in a way that s, pretty sobering when you re done with the book and you realize just the magnitude of what s been done in the past. so if i may, i d like to introduce the authors we
today s presentation with the authors of the the dancer in the double stalin pavlova and the road to the great pandemic. so the book covers about 100 years of history in the use of both chemical poisons and bioweapons in a way that s, pretty sobering when you re done with the book and you realize just the magnitude of what s been done in the past. so if i may, i d like to introduce the authors we have with us, john and sarah, when john is the coauthor with sarah of the book that we re going to be discussing this afternoon? he graduated from the united states naval academy in 1967. he in vietnam on board swift boat. so he was in what was then called the brown water navy, right. going up to the the the the rivers, the the deltas of the mekong right and probably mostly in south the southern part of south vietnam. he was decorated, of course, for his service there. he then went to university of texas law school finished there s the top graduate. he then had a clerkship. chief jus