WMD Commission to Discuss New Findings at Georgetown
The Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism Vice-Chairman Jim Talent, Commissioner Graham Allison and director of the Georgetown University Center for Peace and Security Studies Daniel Byman, will discuss the recently-released report, "World at Risk."
(Media-Newswire.com) - World at Risk: Report of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism
The Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism Vice-Chairman Jim Talent, Commissioner Graham Allison and director of the Georgetown University Center for Peace and Security Studies Daniel Byman, will discuss the recently-released report, “World at Risk."
The congressionally appointed commission's report calls on the president-elect and the next Congress to immediately initiate several concrete actions, unilaterally and with the international community, to address the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction that pose the greatest peril: nuclear and biological weapons.
WHEN: Thursday, January 8, 2009 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. WHERE: Georgetown University Copley Formal Lounge 37th & O Streets, NW Washington, D.C. 20057 SPONSORS: Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
WHO: Daniel Byman, associate professor and director of the Georgetown University Center for Peace and Security Studies
Jim Talent, former Senator from Missouri and Vice-Chairman of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism
Graham Allison, the Douglas Dillon professor of government and director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and member of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism
Contact: Katherine P Martha 202-687-4328 kpm43@georgetown.edu
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