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U.S. Defense Priorities
Presider: Leslie H. Gelb, President, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker: General John W. Vessey, USA (Ret.), General, US Army, (Ret.); former Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff; Chair, Advisory Board, Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations, Alexander M. Haig, Former Secretary of State; Former Chief of Staff at the White House; Former Supreme Allied Commander in NATO, Shea & Gardner; Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency, R. James Woolsey, Partner, Atlantic Council of the United States, Rozanne L. Ridgway, Former Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Canada; Co-Chair, Harvard University, Marine Lieut. Gen. (ret.) Bernard E. Trainor, Lieutenant General, US Marine Corps, (Ret.); former Deputy to the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Director, National Security Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Human Rights Watch/Middle East, Patricia M. Derian, Former Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Adviser, House of Representatives (D-Mass), Barney Frank, Member
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John J. McCloy Roundtable Series on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
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