in the senate but we are great friends and i have the pleasure to roam around with brent scroll croft each week and also charlie curtis dragging himself out of retirement to help us with the first. so last month i had the pleasure of speaking at the university of chicago the 75th anniversary of the first controlled trade reaction -- chain reaction it was the precursor to the manhattan project which had started technically but his work was critical for the manhattan project. at that time he was already recognized at that time the dual nature of this technology that on one hand the potential that were quite different from other instruments of war of the technology with beneficial applications so this duality facing from the beginning it really draws from a common technology base challenging governments and international institutions. focusing on this for four decades and committed to extending the outstanding work with the broader national security community now being judged only by those metrics nuclear energy provides one sixth the energy it saves countless lives to say we have enjoye