Of cooperative storage, dismantling and destruction of soviet nuclear and chemical weapons. Next, former senators sam nunn and Richard Lugar mark the 25th anniversary of the initiative in the historic county caucus room on capitol hill. This one hour and 15 minute discussion and awards ceremony was cohosted by the National Security archive. The Carnegie Corporation, the Carnegie Endowment and the Nuclear Threat initiative. Ladies and gentlemen, i am honored to be one of the organizers of today. This is the day 25 years ago that president George H W Bush signed the nunnlugar legislation into law. Fetishists, we scoured the bush library for the photographs of that extraordinary moment and none exist. There was not even a signing ceremony which gives you a sense of the kind of mixed opinion inside the Bush Administration about this Congressional Initiative in foreign policy. But the judgment of history is in. Calledll street journal the nunnlugar legislation one of the most prescient piec
Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, just a few words of welcome today. Im tom blanton. Im director of the National Security archive at George Washington university and honored to be one of the organizers of today. This is the day, 25 years ago, that president george h. W. Bush signed the nunnlugar legislation into law. Now, being document fetishists, we scanned the bush library for the photographs of that extraordinary moment, and none exist. There was not even a signing ceremony, which gives you a sense of the kind of mixed opinion inside the Bush Administration about this Congressional Initiative in Foreign Policy. But the judgment of history is in. The wall street journal called the nunnlugar legislation one of the most prescient pieces of legislation ever enacted. And today on the National Security archive website you can see the declassified documents showing the real danger of that time, the first ever declassified list of the 3,429 soviet Strategic Nuclear warheads that
Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, just a few words of welcome today. Im tom blanton. Im director of the National Security archive at George Washington university and honored to be one of the organizers of today. This is the day, 25 years ago, that president george h. W. Bush signed the nunnlugar legislation into law. Now, being document fetishists, we scanned the bush library for the photographs of that extraordinary moment, and none exist. There was not even a signing ceremony, which gives you a sense of the kind of mixed opinion inside the Bush Administration about this Congressional Initiative in Foreign Policy. But the judgment of history is in. The wall street journal called the nunnlugar legislation one of the most prescient pieces of legislation ever enacted. And today on the National Security archive website you can see the declassified documents showing the real danger of that time, the first ever declassified list of the 3,429 soviet Strategic Nuclear warheads that
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