Ofbegan cooperative storage soviet nuclear and chemical weapons. Lugarnn and richard marked the anniversary in the Kennedy Cochran room. Nationalsted by the security archive, the carnegie endowment, and other initiatives. Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, a few words of welcome. I am the director of the National Security archive and i am honored to be an organizer of today. This is the day that president bush signed the nunnlugar legislation into law. Document fetishists, we scoured the library for this exist. And none there was not a signing ceremony. It gives you a sense of a mixed opinion with the Congressional Initiative in foreign policy. One of the most prescient pieces of legislation ever. The declassified documents and the danger of that time. It is the first ever to classified list with the soviet and they rounded up weapons and cleaned up the legacies of the cold war arms race. Tasks and is a heroic carried out by many. Many of those heroes are here with us. Not the
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