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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 la...

Implementation of nonlugar. I turn this panel over to David Hoffman to moderate the biographies of these extraordinary individuals. They are in your program. I will not spend our time going over those, but i want to turn it to David Hoffman for his penetrating questions and authoritarian moderation. [laughter] david thank you all again for joining us for the second panel. You heard in the first panel some discussion about the hopes and also some of the disappointments, but where the rubber meets the road is where this panel is about. Is about implementation. And as all of us know from 25 years...

A lasting defeat. And in order to do that we need a partner. And we are trying to build that partner in terms of a moderate syrian force and local forces from the region that can with our air power and other kinds of assistance, inflict defeat on isis and then make it a lasting defeat. Thats how i would characterize what i see. Im obviously not in the councils of comfort. Thats what i infer. When you were in my office we talked about i having just returned from ukraine. When i first walked in senator heinrich was talking about lithuania. Their concern was that all of our attention seemed to be...

A communist in their parliament in ukraine. So we have that problem at the same time as the others youre addressing. What do you think about our european strength as it is right now . Are we adequate . Are we becoming inadequate . I think that our strength in europe is our alliance with nato and the political solidarity that that represents, which is very important when it comes to the Baltic States and also the response in ukraine, which while not a nato nation is certainly a european nation and european unity is an important part of that. So one of our strengths is that. Another strength is ...

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