that there is tight that is watertight investments that there will be no money from from the nobel foundation invested in weapons production measures but doesn't it all come down to the fact that war is lucrative the weapons industry is look at lucrative banks invested some five hundred billion dollars in nuclear weapons between twenty thirteen and twenty sixteen alfred nobel who created this peace prize made his fortune from weapons and explosives how pragmatic are you about this and how do you make nuclear disarmament bankable through the treaty because we have seen from other treaties that when a weapon is prohibited it becomes bad business investors stop putting money into cluster munitions production for example because the majority of the states in the world has proved it it's no longer sound investment strategy to invest all this money in building a weapon but it's going out of fashion that is being prohibited now let's talk about the human side the human aspect and with me now is abacha and jane madison who's a former senator from the marshall islands which were the site as you know o

i was very privileged to get to attend the nobel prize ceremony with the national science foundationwith the three physicists that won the prize for the discovery of gravitational waves . for 40 years. and i think that's a good place to start. [applause].

i was very privileged to get to attend the nobel prize ceremony with the national science foundation as supported with the three physicists that won the prize for the discovery of gravitational waves . for 40 years. and i think that's a good place to start. [applause]. it's good for all of us to appreciate just what a high risk, high reward investment is all about. so if that was a progress of technology and super duper engineering challenges that had to be overcome, a lot of people as you might guess came and went. and it involved multidisciplinary teams of people who did the numerical relativity for computers so that's new in the first gravitational wave was detected. and what the source was, that was two colliding black holes that were in a post-binary system. the most recent gravitational wave detection to neutron stars emerging. so it's, but it was a very long tail. there are many many directors, many and it's a program officers involved national science board, they changed over large number of times during that interval and had to improve all the funding and that of course cong

i was very privileged to get to the nobel prize ceremonies because the national science foundation has supported the census system that won the price for the discovery of gravitational waves for 40 years. that is a good place to start. [applause] it is good for all of us to appreciate just what a high risk, high reward investment is all about so that was progress of technology and superduper engineering challenges that had to be overcome. a lot of people, as you might guess, came and went and it involves multidisciplinary teams who did the numerical relativity using supercomputers so they knew when the first gravitational wave was detected, what the source was and it was took -- colliding black holes that were not close by in the system and the most recent gravitational wave detection, because there have been several, neutron stars. it was a long tail. there are many nsf directors and program officers involved, national science board change to overcome a large number of times during that interval and had to prove funding and congress is the ultimate arbiter for appropriations and makin

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