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Welcoming Remarks DARYL KIMBALL: Congratulations on arriving this morning. If you could please take your seats and we’ll have those outside the auditorium come in. Welcome, everyone. My name is Daryl Kimball. I’m the executive director of the Arms Control Association. We’re very happy to have you all here, especially under these bad weather conditions. The Arms Control Association is one of the co-hosts and co-sponsors of today’s event. The Arms Control Association is a nonpartisan, nonprofit resource center and advocacy organization that deals with the risks of nuclear, chemical, biological and conventional arms and the strategies of diplomatic arms control to deal with those problems. For those of you who are not especially familiar with us—I know many of you are members and many of you are readers of Arms Control Today—there is more information in the program book, which all of you should have, about the Association and how you can support us and how you can be involved in our work. As I said, we’re one of the co-sponsors of this event, the Paul C. Warnke Conference on the Past, Present and Future of Arms Control, along with the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Peace and Security Studies Program here at Georgetown. This conference is a very special event in a number of ways, and before we get into the proceedings, I’m going to offer some introductory remarks about the origins and purposes of today’s conference and a bit about the inspiration for the conference, Paul Warnke, before we move to our first panel. Paul Warnke was quite simply a giant in the field of global security and arms control, who worked with passion, principle, and with persistence in the face of long odds and difficult political circumstances. In government, he was a key architect of the agreements and approaches that led us away from the unbridled military competition with the Soviets that was—and in many ways still is—such a great danger to the United States and to the world, and also on approaches that led us away from military competition in other areas in other dangerous ways around the world involving arms. Once out of government, Paul Warnke, as many of you know, remained a fervent and tireless supporter of arms control and diplomacy, providing generous advice to the government from the outside and also to the many nongovernmental organizations that work in this field. And he was for many years a member of the board of directors of the Arms Control Association. And so with his passing in October of 2001, the ACA Board of Directors felt it would not only be appropriate to acknowledge in some way his legacy and his contributions, but to do so in a way that served to remind and to educate the public about how the tool of arms control has helped make the world a safer place, and also, to advance the discussion, raise awareness, and advance thinking about today’s arm control and arms-related issues. And so that is what this conference is intended to do. We hope that you’ll agree at the end of the day that we’ve accomplished those objectives or at least some of them. And I would also just like to note that in bringing this effort forward, Dean Bob Gallucci, one of our board of directors members, was absolutely pivotal in bringing the concept forward and bringing it to fruition. So we have a very packed schedule today, which is why we are trying to stay on schedule, despite the fact that Georgetown University is, I think, on an hour delay. We have three panel sessions, each of which include time for your comments and questions. And we’ve assembled some of the most experienced and thoughtful experts in various areas of arms control, including our luncheon speaker today, Senator Joseph Biden. And also, later this afternoon, at four o’clock, we have Senator Jack Reed, who will be addressing us on the role of arms control and U.S. security. Let me just make a couple final notes before I turn over the microphone. We have with us here today in the audience many contemporaries of Paul Warnke. I think more of them would have been with us if timing and weather conditions had permitted. I know that Ambassador Ralph Earl is stuck somewhere in Ohio on his way from Indiana and regretted that he could not be here. And I must say that I was fortunate to have met Paul Warnke several times since I arrived in Washington in 1989 to work on these issues and received his generous advice throughout the 1990s, especially on the topic of how to advance the cause of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban, an issue that he very much believed in and worked very hard for. We also have several members of the Warnke family here. I think all of them will be at the luncheon. We have several here this morning, among them Thomas Warnke, son of Paul Warnke. Benjamin, Stephen, and Georgia 6 6
will be here. And we also have Paul Warnke’s sister, Margaret McDonald. So I hope that you’ll find an opportunity to say hi to them in the breaks and have a chat with them about your impressions of Paul Warnke and how he may have affected your career and your thinking. So thank you very much for your attendance and your persistence in getting through the conditions. With that, I’m going to turn over the microphone to Ms. Artemis Kirk, who is the Georgetown librarian, where Paul Warnke’s papers are housed, and we’ll hear a few opening comments from Dean Bob Gallucci. Ms. Kirk? ARTEMIS KIRK: Thank you very much. Good morning, everyone. It’s my great pleasure to be another person to welcome you on behalf of the University Library and the Georgetown University Library Associates, some of whom are here today joining this wonderful conference. Georgetown is privileged to be the home of the Paul Warnke papers. We are grateful and honored that the Warnke family, in selecting Georgetown, recognized our outstanding special collections in political science, history, and diplomacy. The Warnke papers are an important resource for students and faculty alike and provide scholars a great deal of insight into some of the most important events in arms control history. There is an exhibit of a portion of Mr. Warnke’s papers in the Lauinger Library Gunlocke Exhibit Room today, and we hope that you might find a few moments to go to the Lauinger Library’s fifth floor to view some of the documents that you have read about, that you’ve seen, that you know about, as well. These papers contain considerable evidence of the development of Mr. Warnke’s thought related to SALT, ACDA, and many other topics. In the text of his speeches and articles found in both draft and final forms in this collection, the essential issues are presented in a manner to inform and convince both the layperson and the specialist. Mr. Warnke’s recollections of the Vietnam era were often sought, and he was generous in reviewing and commenting on historical and theoretical discussions by advanced students, professional writers, and fellow participants organizing their memoirs. Much evidence of his contributions as both source and editor are contained in these papers. We hope that you will a chance to view them, and we are very grateful to the Warnke family for permitting Georgetown to house this excellent and wonderful collection. It’s now my privilege to introduce the Dean of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Ambassador Robert Gallucci. ROBERT GALLUCCI: Welcome, everybody, and thank you so much for coming under somewhat difficult circumstances. I want to be the third person this morning to welcome you, and I also want to be yet another person to thank the Warnke family. Now, where are they sitting right now? There they are, in the back. Okay, I see Tom and Maggie and Georgia. Is Stephen there? How about Benjamin? (Laughter.) Okay. All right. We’re very, very, very pleased you’re here and very pleased you could join us for this and very grateful to the family. I imagine that Paul Warnke would have liked this conference. I think he would have liked the concept of it. I think he would have thought this was the right time to have a conference on arms control, its past, what it has contributed, what’s going on now, and what’s ahead of us in the arms control world. I think he would have been somewhat disturbed by some elements of this atmosphere. I think he would have been concerned about the feeling that negotiation with defective regimes, evil regimes, was somehow inappropriate, wrong, or even immoral. I think he would have had trouble with calling those who negotiate with such regimes appeasers. I think he would have had trouble with the idea that this was submitting to blackmail. I think he was passionate about the national security, but truly believed that negotiation was one way of achieving our national security objectives. The panel is here. I don’t want to take more time. I will say that the chair of this first panel, John Steinbruner, is the chair of the board of directors of the Arms Control Association, as well as being a professor at the University of Maryland and director of the Center for International Security Studies at Maryland. John, I’m glad you could run down and make it. So ladies and gentlemen, I hope you enjoy the day, and I know it’ll be a productive one. 7 7
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