Turning 25

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Dayton-Johnson, Gard, Wall, Potter at CNS 25th celebration
(Left to right) Dean of the Institute Jeff Dayton-Johnson, Lt. Gen. Robert (Bob) Gard, Janet Wall, and CNS Director Bill Potter at the center’s 25th anniversary gala celebration in Washington, D.C. The event featured the presentation of the Institute’s Global Citizen Award to Gen. Gard, who served as Institute president from 1987 to 1998, and was one of the key figures in the center’s establishment. The Global Citizen Award honors leaders whose vision and actions have had a significant, lasting impact on international affairs and has been given out just three times in the Institute’s 60-year history.

Twenty-five years ago, in the waning days of the Cold War, Professor William C. Potter of the Monterey Institute of In­ternational Studies recognized the mo­ment of historic change as both an oppor­tunity and a threat. The easing of tensions between superpowers offered the oppor­tunity to shrink nuclear arsenals but also heightened the risk of nuclear materials falling into the wrong hands.

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