he is the chairman of the eurasia group. he provides top-level analysis and thought leadership on global macro issues as well as russian domestic and foreign energy policy and iranian nuclear foreign and domestic policy. prior to joining the eurasia group he served in the state department and on the house international relations committee. he was vice president of the senate for national instant and vice president of the airasia foundation. -- at the eurasia foundation, a program that works in russia. this is the first time that we have had kelsey davenport. i am delighted. she's the new star in washington. she is a go to source for a technical understanding of this agreement in the making. she is the director for the non-proliferation policy for the arms control association and provides research or nuclear programs on iran, north korea and pakistan on security issues. she joined the arms control association in 2011 as a peace fellow. prior to that she worked in a think tank in jerusalem. he may have interesting things to sa

if you look at the world and he took office looking at eurasia, russia, taking a look at it today weeorge washington who is creating such immediate and complex and far-reaching disasters and foreign policy. lori: on that upbeat note, have a good weekend. victims of the 2009 for her terror attack finally receiving an honor and a triple heart ceremony in texas. but the survivors and families lined up to be given a purple heart or a freedom medal for their injuries, the ceremony is five years in the making. the obama administration initially described the attack as workplace violence and not terrorism. today's honor is bittersweet for at least one survivor who says the army is denying benefits for injuries sustained in the attack. >> i think it's almost unheard of not combat related. [inaudible] that is not combat related, i think it's just ridiculous. lori: an army spokeswoman tells fox news that this is not a final decision but that he may have to go to a hearing to prove his injuries are combat related. we are coming right back. coming up another apple innovation. why you should or s

everything i was reading, nepal is on the convergent zone in the himalayas where the indian and eurasia. why is this world capable of producing major quakes? >> well if you have ever watched a pot of past j boiling you see the water rise in places and fall in places and india is sort of like a piece of pasta floating on top of that water being pushed around. in the case of the earth, radioactive elements deep in the earth cause that same kind of upwelling in the mantel and push the continents around the great pilates of the earth around and it happens one of those upwellings is pushing india north and colliding with the asian plate which is a separate plate and that's what causes the giant peaks like the himalayas and as those two pilates run into each other the ground, the plate begins to fold up because it's sort of stuck and then at some point that releases and that's what causes the earthquake. it's released energy from the whole continent being sort of compressed and pushed up against asia for a period of time and then suddenly it releases. >> okay. i'm having geology 101 flashback

ambassador to ukraine and director of the eurasia eurasia center at the atlantic journal, john herbst. as you all are getting seated and comfortable, we will -- we will begin with ambassador kornblum. >> ambassador kornblum, i want to thank you for being here. in particular, i know you're a resident of nashville, tennessee. we're always glad to have really bright people from nashville, tennessee, here testifying. with that, if you'd begin. we appreciate it. >> thank you very much. i have also, you might even be more pleased to learn, a very direct contact with city you know, chattanooga, tennessee. and mr. mayor burke is going to be at a meeting i'm organizing in berlin in three weeks to talk about the tremendous success chattanooga has had in revitalizing the city and supporting entrepreneurship there. and i think you had a little bit to do that. i've heard that, anyway, from history. and so i'm very pleased to be here. both because of my ties to tennessee and also because these are issues i worked upon very -- a lot in the 1990s. i was the assistant secretary during this whole perio

>> well, the proneness is the function of india, the sub continent of india is ramming into asia, eurasia and it had for millions of years and the power of that is what limited up the himalayas, itself and an extraordinary amount of energy there and it gets pent up and then it gets periodically released. there are faults in the earth that are more predictable than others. science is still unfolding, and at the same time what happened in places like all along the himalayan range, not just in the mountains but city like deli have become mega cities, not kuala lumpur. >> kathmandu is not a mega city yet but you have this inrush of people to a region where the tech tonic history is more and more relevant -- apparent to scientists, but it is all happening, the development is happening in fast motion, even as you have the slow motion forces and unpredict to believe the point, you can't say it is next year. but the political priority are always other things when you have an earthquake threat on top of basic functionality, development and you get this kind of real -- >> rose:. >> the horrifying t

joining me now from washington is the eurasia group analyst scots, and first of all, what is going toween japan and china in the leaders meet? scott: clearly we are entering into a. where both sides really want to dial down some of the tensions that we have seen over the past few years. so i think there are definitely going to focus on seeing the things that they can cooperate on and obviously focusing on areas where they don't think they can make as much progress, so i look to this as being a really forward-looking meeting. alix: what about japan and the u.s. trying to nail around this trance-pacific partnership what are the chances of you seen this happening? scott: well we are definitely hearing the right thing on both sides, and we know the negotiators are working very hard in tokyo, they did not reach any agreement yet today but they will continue talking about it this week, so i am hopeful that they will make more progress, but i think whether they're actually able to cobble together a final deal in time remains an open question. alix: you said that china and japan want to tone

my name is heather conley, senior vice president for europe, eurasia and the arctic. i'm extremely proud that the arctic is in my formal title. we here at csis in our program have a tradition. we host a public conversation just a few days before an arctic council ministerial. so we have had in 2011 the road to nuke. in 2013, the road to karuna. today, we have the road to iqaluit. senator murkowski says it is also said iqaluit. so iqaluit or iqaluit, but we're off to nunavit next week. and i could think of no more perfect speaker to offer some reflections just eight days before the united states assumes the arctic council chairmanship than a person who has been in nuke and karuna participating as part of the u.s. delegation to speak with us and that is senator lisa murkowski. chairwoman of the senate committee of energy and natural resources. she serves as a member of the senate health education, labor and pensions committee as well as the senate indian affairs committee. so, senator murkowski, you could not be better placed to help give us these insights. senator murk

my name is heather conley, senior vice president for europe, eurasia and the arctic. i'm extremely proud that the arctic is in my formal title. we here at csis in our program have a tradition. we host a public conversation just a few days before an arctic council ministerial. so we have had in 2011 the road to nuke. in 2013, the road to karuna. today, we have the road to iqaluit. senator murkowski says it is also said iqaluit. so iqaluit or iqaluit but we're off to nunavit next week. and i could think of no more perfect speaker to offer some reflections just eight days before the united states assumes the arctic council chairmanship than a person who has been in nuke and karuna participating as part of the u.s. delegation to speak with us and that is senator lisa murkowski. she serves as a member of the senate health education, labor and pensions committee as well as the senate indian affairs committee. so, senator murkowski, you could not be better placed to help give us these insights. senator murkowski, i think of one of you as one of the key leaders, people seek y

great power land wars have been the scourge of eurasia for 31 years before the u.s. dropped atomic weapons on hiroshima, nagasaki. wars that have killed tens of millions of the battlefield and tens of millions more to disease and political upheaval. 70 years ago, most responsible people expected a third world to follow the first and the second with consequences far worse than the first two. thankfully, that war never came to her to misuse a title from the famous book, it has led many people to proclaim, zynga for the atom bomb. did nuclear weapons prevent world were three, and it is weapons have the effect of stabilizing world politics by making great power war unthinkable? this powerful notion is that the foundation of what we -- is at the foundation of what we have come to call to terms. our way of thinking about nuclear weapons is centered upon this conflict. much of the u.s. national security policy has been driven for well over half a century by the idea that an attack upon the united states or its allies might elicit a nuclear response, even if our adversaries

there will be a conversation looking at the framework for a copy handset agreement withahead of the eurasia of the atlantic council. that is clifford kupchan. he has the arms control represented. the atlantic council represented . this is live coverage on c-span.