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[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] our meeting will come to order. The Senate Armed Services Committee Meets this morning to receive testimony on global challenges in the united, in National Security strategies to meet those threats. Its my honor to welcome our distinguished witnesses, former sectors of state Henry Kissinger and george shultz, and the former deputy secretary of state richard on the taj. Your careers of service have been unbelievable, been great. We are so honored to have you folks here. I want to begin by reading a brief welcome from our chairman mccain who re...

From. [inaudible] its my pleasure to moderate this discussion with a group of folks who are prime movers in the development of the nature posture review. I will introduce them in a moment. We are not calling this a panel. Each group will give us five or ten minutes. We will get some conversation for the group going. Most of you know the group and let me introduce rob the Deputy Assistant secretary for defense for Nuclear Defense policy. Greg weaver is strategic director for staff j5. He runs the Defense Program shop and anita is the acting assistant secretary from the bureau of arms control. I...

Being with us this morning. You are a man who lived through the Nuclear Threat of the cold war. Can you compare what that was like to the potential threats that we are aware of today in the world iran, north korea, other areas . Well, at the end of the cold war in the early 90s, a lot of people were hoping that the whole issue, the specter of Nuclear Weapons was behind this. Today i have to say that the possibility of a Nuclear Weapon beingty used is probably higher than any time since the human missile crisis and are concerned is less on inactive miscalculation that provides a faulty informat...

That was like to the potential threat that we are aware of today in the world iran, north korea, other areas. Guest at the end of the cold war in the early 90s i think a lot of people were hoping that the whole issue in the specter of Nuclear Weapons use was behind us but unfortunately today i would have to say that the possibility of a Nuclear Weapon been used is probably higher than any time since the cuban missile crisis and our concern is less on intentional use in a certain sense as opposed to an act of miscalculation, a blunder that provides faulty information, for example the president ...

Secretary on it Nuclear Threats facing the u. S. And the world. Then cavett phillips. Later, meredith i dont believe teachers should be armed. I believe teachers should teach. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016]] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] but thats exactly whats wrong with this country. We have people in washington, d. C. Representatives, senators and legislatures telling teachers what they should do without asking teachers what do you want to do . [ca...