Well that's, that's -- that's a disquieting question, quite honestly.
If you look at some of the literature in the fields,
you know experts estimate 20% over the next five years,
25% over the next five years, things like that.
We have the continuing rise of proliferate nations --
North Korea and Iran are both engaged in activities that we're not terribly comfortable with.
We have the specter of nuclear terrorism that we're all concerned about.
There are terrorist groups out there looking for nuclear material right now
and I'm fairly confident that if they them and they could generate a working device
they would use it without compunction.
If something should happen -- God forbid -- how do we respond to it
and recover from it as quickly as possible?
So if there were some sort of nuclear event or nuclear attack
how do we minimize the damage; how do we save as many lives as possible?
And how do we return society back to functioning as quickly as possible?
If you look around the country there really is no place better for my field,
for nuclear security, to make a difference than right here.
We are bringing together folks in the policy world,
the science world, the educational arena, the folks who are out there
on the front line in those real world missions
and I think it will be a safer place because of it.