Well, good afternoon, everyone. My name is chuck deaver. Im a vice president. The texas Public Policy foundation. And were 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 todays successor state the Russian Federation as as nations like the peoples republic of china and north korea. And so its great honor to have todays 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 thats, pretty sobering when youre done with the book and you realize just the magnitude of whats been done in the past. So if i may, id like to introduce the authors we have with us, john
Todays 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 thats, pretty sobering when youre done with the book and you realize just the magnitude of whats been done in the past. So if i may, id like to introduce the authors we have with us, john and sarah, when john is the coauthor with sarah of the book that were 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 theres the top graduate. He then had a clerkship. Chief Justice William reh
But until i read this book, i had no idea scale that these poisons were deployed by the former soviet union and todays successor state the Russian Federation as as nations like the peoples republic of china and north korea. And so its great honor to have todays 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 thats, pretty sobering when youre done with the book and you realize just the magnitude of whats been done in the past. So if i may, id like to introduce the authors we have with us, john and sarah, when john is the coauthor with sarah of the book that were 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
And north korea. And so its great honor to have todays 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 thats, pretty sobering when youre done with the book and you realize just the magnitude of whats been done in the past. So if i may, id like to introduce the authors we have with us, john and sarah, when john is the coauthor with sarah of the book that were 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 theres the top graduate. He
Poisons were deployed by the former soviet union and todays successor state the Russian Federation as as nations like the peoples republic of china and north korea. And so its great honor to have todays 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 thats, pretty sobering when youre done with the book and you realize just the magnitude of whats been done in the past. So if i may, id like to introduce the authors we have with us, john and sarah, when john is the coauthor with sarah of the book that were 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 so