Sept. 19 @ 6 pm - Baker Center's Global Security Group presents Ambassador 
Linton Brooks on "21st Century Nuclear Challenges."  Despite the nuclear 
programs of rogue states Iran and North Korea, the threat of nuclear terrorism, 
increasing numbers of nuclear weapons in volatile or fragile parts of the world 
like Pakistan, or the nuclear disaster in Japan - the nuclear security agenda has 
receded in the national debate.  Global stockpiles of nuclear weapons, 
vulnerable nuclear material worldwide, and the byproducts of nuclear energy 
production will remain among the central challenges to US national security and 
global stability throughout the 21st century.

Ambassador Brooks has over five decades of experience in national security, 
much of it associated with nuclear policy. While he currently is a senior advisor 
at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a distinguished 
research fellow at the National Defense University, he previously served as the 
administrator of the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security 
Administration and chief negotiator of the first Strategic Arms Reduction 
Treaty, as well as in other key US government positions. Prior to his 
government service, he was a career Navy officer deployed on four nuclear-
equipped ships.

This event is also sponsored by the Hudson Institute, Partnership for a Secure 
America, and the Stanley Foundation.

Free & open to the public.