i'm gloria duffy, president and ceo of the club and the chair for tonight's program.elcome our listeners on radio and television, our podcasters and on-line video viewers and invite everyone to visit us on the commonwealthclub.org. we are very pleased to hold this evening's program together with university's center for international security and cooperation, and the friedman moglie institute. as we debate about the economy and follow the presidential primary race, it is sometimes easy to forget that the greatest danger facing humankind is still the presence of tens of thousands of nuclear weapons in the arsenals of several countries and the continuing quest by countries like north korea and iran and terrorist groups to obtain atomic weapons. with the end of the cold war, the nuclear arms situation faded into the background. it became the province of nuclear policywonks and academic institutions. but should it fade into the background? with us on the stage here tonight are three men who emphatically say no to this question, and one man who has chronicled the quest of t

. >> we have tonight in this audience, joan removaling, gloria duffy, phillip jung, not in this audience, ash carter, sherwood, mike mcfall, all of whom to me represent the next generation coming along. beyond that, i teach a class every year at stanford, about 300 students in the class. and each year, about eight or ten of those come up at the end of the year and say i'm going to get into this field. and we do everything we can to encourage them along. so we have three generations represented here. the ones who are sitting on the stage, some oh who are sitting in the audience and is the students at stanford and other universities who are being aspired to follow this up. so we've got two generations waiting to pick up that baton. >> i think charlotte schultz put this question to her husband in a very succinct way. one day when we were on our way out to the airport in berlin and i was riding in the limousine with secretary schultz and charlotte and she turned to him and she said, george, when are you going to get some young people to work on this? to which secretary schultz said, well, we

we have tonight in this audience gloria duffy and others. not in this audience, people in the administration, mike mcfall, all of whom represent the next generation coming along. beyond that, i teach a class every year at stanford. about 300 students in the class. each year, eight or 10 of those come up at the end of the year and say, "i am going to get into this field." we do everything we can to bring them along. we have three generations represented here. some are on the stage. some are in the audience. in the students of stanford and other universities are being inspired. we have 2 we would generations waiting to pick up the baton. -- we have two generations waiting to pick up the baton. >> one day when we were on our way out to the airport in berlin, i was driving in a limousine with secretary shultz and his wife, charlotte. she turned to him and she said, "george, when are you going to get some young people to work on this purpose?" to which secretary shultz said, "we have madeleine albright and colin powell." [laughter] at any rate, l

we have tonight in this audience gloria duffy and others. not in this audience, people in the administration, mike mcfall, all of whom represent the next generation coming along. beyond that, i teach a class every year at stanford. about 300 students in the class. each year, eight or 10 of those come up at the end of the year and say, "i am going to get into this field." we do everything we can to bring them along. we have three generations represented here. some are on the stage. some are in the audience. in the students of stanford and other universities are being inspired. we have 2 we would generations waiting to pick up the baton. -- we have two generations waiting to pick up the baton. >> one day when we were on our way out to the airport in berlin, i was driving in a limousine with secretary shultz and his wife, charlotte. she turned to him and she said, "george, when are you going to get some young people to work on this purpose?" to which secretary shultz said, "we have madeleine albright and colin powell." [laughter] at any rate, l