we are also so pleased this evening to welcome phillip taubman.usly spent 30 years as a "new york times" correspondent specializing in national security issues. his positions at the times bureau serving as both chiefs. mr. taubman is the author of the new book "the partnership by cold warriors and their threat to profile the bomb" which profiles the work of today's panelists. we are also pleased to welcomfe who is with us this evenglcome combination with phil [ applause ] >> thank you very much, gloria. it's a real privilege to be here tonight in the company of these distinguished statesmen, and it is so heartening, i can't tell you, to see so many people come out to hear a discussion about this really critically important issue. so thank you all for coming tonight. let me begin by reading you a quotation from the book that i've done. it's actually the last paragraph in the book, and it's a comment that was made by henry kissinger who, of course, was richard nixon's national security adviser and secretary of state, and has joined with these three

we are also pleased to welcome philip taubman as our moderator. previously he spent 30 years as a new york times correspondent, specializing in national security issues. his positions included serving as washington and moscow chief. he is the author of the new book, "the partnership, the quest to ban the bon," the profiles the work of today's panelist spurious we are also pleased to welcome felicity. please welcome the secretary william perry and senator sam nunn in conversation with philip taubman. [applause] >> thank you very much. it is a privilege to be here tonight in the company of these statesmen. it is so heartening, i cannot tell you to see so many people to come out to hear a discussion about this critically important issue. so thank you for coming tonight. let me begin by reading you quotation from the book i have done. it is the last paragraph and the book. it was a comment made by henry kissinger, who was richard nixon's national security advisor and secretary of state and has joined with the these three men and a physicist at stanfor

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i'm philip taubman. now this meeting of the commonwealth club of california, the place where you are in the know, is adjourned. [ applause ] >>> coming up next here on c-span 3, a look at the 2013 national nuclear administration budget. then navy secretary ray mabus addresses the conference. then a campaign rally with congress member and candidate ron paul in idaho falls, idaho. >>> i know in washington it is very popular to want to create a cyber security organization to oversee this. i think that is just folly. >> the adversaries we are dealing with today are becoming more sophisticated. >> how real is the threat? cyber security executives bill conner and robert dix. the communicators tonight on c-span 2. >>> on washington journal tomorrow morning, the president of the business round table, john eengler. tom zeller looks at the america's poor and middle class. and andrew weiss will discuss how the election of russian president vladimir putin will affect relations with the united states and russia. wash

i'm phillip taubman and now this meeting of the commonwealth club of california, the place where you're in the know, is adjourned. >>> c-span's city's tour takes our book tv and american history tv on the road, the first weekend of each month. march featured shreveport, louisiana, with book tv at the noel memorial library. >> mr. knoll was a local man, born here and lived here most of his life. and he started accumulating books when he was a teenager and continued until he was in his 0s. over his lifetime, he accumulated over 200,000 volumes. if we have a gem in the collection, it is probably going to be this one. it's one of the books we're most proud. it's in the original binding from 1699, and it was once owned by a very famous scientist. you can see his written his name, i. newton. and we are not pulling it out so much anymore, because it is starting to flake away on the title page. >> american history tv looked at civil war medical practices at the pioneer heritage museum. >> pioneer medicine is a long stretch from what it is today. you consider that, the things that we take for gr

i'm philip taubman. just to continue on the deterrents. this was a theme in a lot of your questions. secretary schultz, when you went to reikeovich to meet with michail gorbechev, today, the united states has 5,000. the russians have more than that. when you were in reikeovich, you talked about eliminating nuclear weapons all together. a lot of people ask how can we risk giving up nuclear weapons. aren't they very important in preserving the peace? >> actually, they haven't been as good a deterrent as they seemed to be cracked up to be. think in the cold war of the things that nuclear weapons did not deter. didn't deter the sovietsing f f going in and crushing hungary in 1956. did not squash them from prague. did not deter from the berlin air lift. did not deter them from encouraging the korean war. did not deter them from invading afghanistan. so an awful lot happened. why did it not deter? because there is a realization that it is very unlikely they will be used. so, that says to me, deterrance is a good concept. you want to create a sit

we are also pleased to welcome philip taubman as our moderator. previously he spent 30 years as a new york times correspondent, specializing in national security issues. his positions included serving as washington and moscow chief. he is the author of the new book, "the partnership, the quest to ban the bon," the profiles the work of today's panelist spurious we are also pleased to welcome felicity. please welcome the secretary william perry and senator sam nunn in conversation with philip taubman. [applause] >> thank you very much. it is a privilege to be here tonight in the company of these statesmen. it is so heartening, i cannot tell you to see so many people to come out to hear a discussion about this critically important issue. so thank you for coming tonight. let me begin by reading you quotation from the book i have done. it is the last paragraph and the book. it was a comment made by henry kissinger, who was richard nixon's national security advisor and secretary of state and has joined with the these three men and a physicist at stanfor