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Again back in business. And excited to welcome doctor chris fourmac. And for those of you in the know, is of course secretary of state for international. It previously done a tour on President Trump. He worked previously in capitol hill brent naval reserve, but most important link all around great guy. And through these conversations going to be a lot of fun. He held from cincinnati. Home of finley market i might add. Not bad. [laughter]. Will give a few framing remarks and then give you a littl...

Christopher ford is the assistant secretary of state for International Security and nonproliferation. He talked about Nuclear Security policy at the Stimson Center. Some other of the topics included Nuclear Terrorism prevention, efforts to denuclearize north korea, and chinas role in fostering Nuclear Security in the region. Well, ladies and gentlemen, a very good afternoon to all of you and welcome to the Stimson Center. My name is brian finlay. Im president and ceo here at the Stimson Center. ...

Christopher ford is a assistant secretary of state for International Security and nonproliferation. He talked about Nuclear Security policy at the Stimson Center. Some other of the topics included Nuclear Terrorism prevention, efforts to denuclearize north korea and chinas role in fostering Nuclear Security in the region. Ladies and gentlemen, a very good afternoon to all of you and welcome to the Stimson Center my name is brian finlay, im president and ceo here at the Stimson Center. For those ...

Stints in. For those of you that are attending this very event for the second time. Many apologies and it was not as you may have assumed our speakers agenda i cause that cancellation but an exploding manhole but we are paying our bills at the Stanton Center and back at business and very pleased to be welcoming doctor chris ford back to the stage. Chris for those of you in the no and the assistant secretary of state for enough security for International Security and nonproliferation. He talked a...

On President Trumps nfc and worked previously on capitol hill at the hudson institute, Naval Reserve but most importantly is an allaround great guy and im sure this conversation will be fun but fun fact he is from cincinnati almost a finley market and not bad. No relation. [inaudible conversations] [laughter] we thought chris would give a few framing remarks and then leave time for us to ask clarifying questions but with that chris, welcome back. [applause] thank you, brian. Great to be back her...

Uncertain. With resources scaling back their influence to generate exports in general. So they will continue to be more aggressive with the cuban internal demand is 40,000 pearls they have been getting 100,000 using the rest. But we see them renegotiating terms with china. Exporting around 330,000 Barrels Per Day with china the import figures show that those numbers are down at 200,000 barrels and that is additional cash they have to work with. The government right now is very short term protest...

Most likely it will be weaker although again the eu has threatened of russia recognizes the upcoming elections, they will increase sanctions. So its going a lot of Different Directions right now. But if the sanctions are weakened in march, and there are lots of European Countries who are advocating for lessening the sanctions, including italy, hungary, luxembourg, a whole bunch of countries are being hurt themselves by the sanctions. So indeed it is a change in the sanctions policy, then putin w...

Would recognize them. The counties, you never would. Gardner ran behind romney. It was a rural issue, not an acrosstheboard issue. The same thing is true in other places as well. Iowa, its less obvious but the same distinction prevails. Then the question is, what does this mean for 2016 if what were seeing is not a uniform swing but a localized swing . And is this a turnout question . Well, ive done two states, colorado and iowa, and colorado keeps moving up. But the differential, if you compare...

The turks have taken a significant role in trying to crack down on that, and we are an ongoing conversations about other things that might be done as part of the coalition, but as we speak right now, there are Kurdish Forces and Free Syrian Army forces moving. Thanks to a land bridge established by the turks, again, bringing pressure murder from the Iraqi Kurdish region and britney in free syrian force is going to turkey. I think that is up premise, there is some conflict. They have played a lea...

This is just the first baby step in that direction. Were animating the inanimate world around us. If you project forward a little bit, its mind boggling to even thing what will be possible in a short period of time. And its not surprising that this is creating a certain angst about technology. The second revolution thats occurring, every bit as profound, which is made possible by this first revolution, is the biotech revolution. And whats happening there is that life through us, through our cere...