. >>> good morning, everywomen, i'm darryl kimball. i'm the director of the nongovernmental arms control and i want to welcome everyone to our annual 2012 meeting. i want to thank those of you watching online and cspan. and before we get started, i'd like to remind everybody to turn off your cellular devices. as the arms control association enters its fifth decade, we remain committed to providing information and ideas to address those security challenges posed by the world's most dangerous weapons, nuclear, biological, chemical, and certain conventional weapons. as our many members here today know, a monthly journal arms control today is the key resource for ideas and analysis and interviews with key policymakers on a range of issues and our staff turnouts on regular basis issue opinion pieces, background papers and reports on a range of topics and they're all available at arms control.org. our ability to do this depends on our individual members and our subscribers to "arms control today." and if you're not a member or a subscriber,