and i just want to pick up on a point that andy weber brought up, which is that we are in a challenging time for nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control that's going to require creativity and persistence and there are new challenges that we're facing. the united states, the world. it's going to take your creativity, our common effort with other civil society organizations and exexperts. i have learned a lot today. i hope the rest of you have learned a lot also. before we close, i want to thank a few colleagues and supporters that have helped make this event our 2016 annual meeting in possible. in particular, wasn't to thank our generous members david and gina hefmeister as well as dean rust who provided sponsor thpsh to help defray the costs. thank you, david and gina and dean. [ applause ] [ applause ] i also i also want to welcome the newest members of our board of directors who were elected this spring as we prepared for this meeting and those incoming members are deborah gordon, dr. phillip coil, somebody named andy weber, former assistant secretary of defense, welco

and i just want to pick up on a point that andy weber brought up that we are in a challenging time for nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation and that's going to require creativity and persistence, there are new challenges that we are facing, the world, and it's going to take your credittivity, common effort with organizations and experts and i've learned a lot today. i hope the rest of you have learned a lot also. before we close i want to thank our colleagues that make our annual meeting possible and in particular i want to thank david and gina as well as dean who provider generous sponsorships, so thank you david and gina and dean. [applause] >> i also want to welcome the newest members of board of directors who were elected this spring as we prepared for this meeting, and those incoming are debra with the preventive at stanford and dr. philip coyle, somebody named andy weber and also greg kilman who is senior fellow at the arms association and has been for the last seven years, he is retiring for a second time from service but he's going to be back on the board of directors and l