For immediate release
January 6, 2009
Contact: Katherine P Martha
202-687-4328
kpm43@georgetown.edu
WMD Commission to Discuss New Findings at Georgetown
Report Addresses Proliferation of Nuclear and Biological Weapons
WHO:
Daniel Byman, associate professor and director of the Georgetown University Center for Peace and Security Studies

Jim Talent, former Senator from Missouri and Vice-Chairman of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism

Graham Allison, the Douglas Dillon professor of government and director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and member of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism
WHAT:

World at Risk: Report of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism

The Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism Vice-Chairman Jim Talent, Commissioner Graham Allison and director of the Georgetown University Center for Peace and Security Studies Daniel Byman, will discuss the recently-released report, “World at Risk."

The congressionally appointed commission's report calls on the president-elect and the next Congress to immediately initiate several concrete actions, unilaterally and with the international community, to address the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction that pose the greatest peril: nuclear and biological weapons.

To view the full report, please click here: http://www.preventwmd.gov/report/.  

WHEN:
Thursday, January 8, 2009 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
WHERE:
Georgetown University
Copley Formal Lounge
37th & O Streets, NW
Washington, D.C. 20057
SPONSORS:
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service