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...currently a co-managing partner of the law firm WilmerHale, one of the nation’s most prestigious law firms, and managed the 2004 merger of the Boston firm Hale and Dorr and the Washington-based Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering...
...Obama Administration official why the President is bringing nearly 50 heads of state all the way to Washington just so they can collectively declare that loose nukes are bad, and you'll get a version of this: America can only be safe if international cooperation is strong...
...That may be true, and hawks and doves in Washington agree there's little downside to the summit itself. But even the most idealistic internationalists know that the number of nuclear-armed states is likely to grow rather than shrink in coming years, weakening the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and increasing the production of dangerous materials around the globe. So, a more accurate definition of the summit's purpose may be that it is, at best, a small step toward slowing the decline of international cooperation on nuclear issues. (See "Obama's Nuclear Strategy: What's Different...
...Even the most hawkish members of the previous Administration support promoting cooperation to keep nuclear materials safe. The Obama Administration says that just getting so many heads of state to sit down and discuss the issue is an achievement. "The fact that almost 50 countries are coming to Washington, most heads of state, heads of government level, is indicative of the response that these countries are paying to this very important subject," says Obama's National Security Adviser, General James Jones...
...Convincing skeptics to make the necessary investment requires building credibility for international confabs like the one in Washington. But multilateral international institutions are not exactly dominating the strategic scene at the moment: the Bush Administration degraded them during its first term. Obama made reversing that approach a cornerstone of his campaign and his presidency. The reality is that neither Bush's unilateralism nor Obama's internationalism has slowed Iran's and North Korea's nuclear programs, nor have they halted the expansion of peaceful nuclear programs elsewhere around the world...