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Thursday, Feb 23: George Shultz, Sam Nunn, William Perry: The Nuclear Chessboard, 2012 (San Francisco, CA)

What Panel Discussion
When Feb 23, 2012
from 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm
Where The Commonwealth Club of California, 595 Market Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA
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Three distinguished statesmen discuss their vision for international security in these precarious times. Secretaries Shultz and Perry and Senator Nunn will assess the current state of nuclear threats, including Iran's drive to build a bomb, the North Korean nuclear weapons program, and future prospects for limiting the spread of nuclear materials and eventually eliminating nuclear weapons.

George Shultz, Former U.S Secretary of State under President Reagan
William Perry, Former U.S. Secretary of Defense under President Clinton
Sam Nunn, Former U.S. Senator, Georgia (1972-96), Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative
Philip Taubman, Consulting Professor, Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation; Former New York Times Washington Bureau Chief; Author, The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb – Moderator

Location: SF Commonwealth Club Office
Time: 5:15 p.m. check-in, 6 p.m. program
Cost:
 $20 standard, $12 members, $7 students (with valid ID). Premium (includes seating in first few rows): $45 standard, $30 members
Program organizer: George Dobbins   
Also know: In Association with Ploughshares Fund

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Dates of interest, April/May 2012

April 11: South Korean National Assembly Elections

April 11: North Korean Workers' Party Conference begins

April 12: North Korea attempts satellite launch

April 14-17: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell travels to Tokyo, Seoul

April 15: Kim Il-Sung Centennial Birthday Celebration (DPRK National Holiday)

April 30: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda meets with President Obama, Washington

May 1: May Day (DPRK National Holiday)

May 12: South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, and Chinese Premier Hu Jintao meet at the Fifth Korea-China-Japan summit in Beijing.

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