host: john o'leary is the author of the book "if we can put a man on the moon." he is also executive editor -- executive editor of the website better, faster, cheaper. guest: steven goldsmith is really the owner of it at the- center. we look at -- at the ash center. we look at news, published stories about innovative practices, best practices at state and local rubber bands. one challenge is that -- at state and local government. one challenge is that governments tend to move more slowly. we try to collect good ideas, collect things that do work and promote them and spread them. host: what is the website? guest: betterfastercheaper.com. host: we will have it on the screen. frank, democratic collar. -- caller. caller: i would like to ask if you could give an assessment of what the financial investment economy influence is on these major projects and programs. in 1958, the amount of money invested in financial products like these derivatives and such surpassed the amount of money invested in companies that actually made things. i think right now, no one can dispute

thank you for joining us this morning, john o'leary. that will wrap it up for this morning's "washington journal." on your screen is michael o'hanlon at the brookings institute discussing the future of nuclear weapons, arms control. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] . . steve will talk about we have seen in europe involvement moscow and washington with regard to the new tree. let me say a brief word relative to current events. our hearts go out to our friends in russia. this is a sobering reminder of the stakes of terrorism and many other issues nuclear weapons at some future date. there is news about iran developing nuclear weapons. these are relevant things to the question of nuclear weapons and we can do about it. many say something else about our panel. this has been a wonderful group to work with. we have enjoyed the participation of other people in lockheed martin and from other think tanks and regional experts, and nuclear arms control experts. we have