Good afternoon. My name is george perkelvich and im going to talk a little as people enter the room. Its good to see you all here. Our topic today is the legality of Nuclear Deterrence. This is not a topic that you tend to find on Cable Television political shows or on op ed pages or in president ial debates, where probably if youre lucky at your summer bar bar becues, but it is an important topic. One of the reasons the question of the legality of Nuclear Deterrence is so important and often underappreciated, is that the women and men whose job it is to carry out nuclear operations, to manage our Nuclear Weapons and conduct operations with them, they understandably need to know that what they might be asked to do is considered legal and legitimate. And in many ways, obviously, society ohs them that kind of del deliberation. So its a quite important topic and its also, obviously as well hear, not so simple. The legality of deterrence may be distinguishable from the legality of using Nu
Guidance prior to now the unveiling of its budget request. We are thrilled to have decent beginning our discussion today. He has one of the longer titles but one of the more important titles, Principal Deputy undersecretary of defense for policy, a job that jim miller also had and we will talk about in the table that follows, but for now i want to introduce david who has been one of the most important authors and voices on the conceptualization and training in the writing of the document that we now have available in all of you can access as you are aware on the internet. It is about a 70 page document much longer than the unclassified version and has a lot of elaboration you are going tyouregoing to hear about that. David will give some short remarks and then we will swap out a little before the 11 00 mark for the Panel Discussion than i will moderate and introduce the panel when we get to that point. Let me say a couple more things about david. This is his second or third or fourth t
Nuclear weapons and u. S. National security policy. Hosted by the Brookings Institution its about 2 hours. Were thrilled to have you here today to discuss the Trump Administration Nuclear Posture review. An important document that came out on grounds hog day, february 2nd. And the National Defense strategy of january. So doing a nice job keeping the clock running smoothly. Prior to now the unveiling of the budget request. Were thrilled to have david beginning our discussion today. He has one of the longer titles but most important. The Principal Deputy under secretary for defense of policy. A job that jim miller had and well talk about that in the panel that follows with jim and others. But for now, i want to introduce david who has been one of the administrations important authors and framing and writing of the document that we have available and you can access on the internet. About a 70 page document, much longer than the unclassified version of the National Defense strategy. A lot
Cspan. Next, a forum on recently unveiled Nuclear Posture review by the Trump Administration. Leading off, remarks by defense undersecretary of policy, David Trachtenberg, followed by discussion with Nuclear Policy specialists. Live coverage due to start shortly. I am mike oh hanlin with the Foreign Policy program. Happy to have you to discuss the Trump Administration Nuclear Posture review, came out february 2nd, following earlier National Security strategy of december and National Defense strategy of january. So the administration is doing a nice job keeping its clock work running smoothly. Prior to unveiling the budget request. Thrilled to have David Trachtenberg beginning the discussion today. He has one of the longer titles, but one of the more important titles in the pentagon. Principal deputy undersecretary for defense policy, a job jim miller also had. We will talk about that in the panel that follows with jim and others. For now, i want to introduce david who has been one of t
[inaudible conversations] we are thrilled to have you all here today to discuss the administrations review an important document that just came out on groundhogs day of this year following the earlier National Security strategy of december and Defense Strategies of the administration is doing a nice job keeping its work running smoothly on issuing the guidance prior to now the unveiling of its budget request. We are thrilled to have decent beginning our discussion today. He has one of the longer titles but one of the more important titles, Principal Deputy undersecretary of defense for policy, a job that jim miller also had and we will talk about in the table that follows, but for now i want to introduce david who has been one of the most important authors and voices on the conceptualization and training in the writing of the document that we now have available in all of you can access as you are aware on the internet. It is about a 70 page document much longer than the unclassified ve