NTI Report -- 50th INMM Annual Meeting Opening Plenary

Thank you. It is a special honor to have a place at the podium at the 50th Annual meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management. Completing the celebrations of your 50th year is a happy occasion. Of course, the real celebration is not that you’ve survived 50 years – but what you’ve accomplished in that time. In the late 1950s, when a group of professionals came together to discuss the establishment of a new Institute – the primary concern was preventing loss of material that was expensive to make and essential to the military policies of the United States. The rise of terrorist groups with global reach was not on the minds of the people present. Nor was the prospect that such a terrorist group might one day acquire nuclear weapons or the means to make them. But the measure of any great organization is whether it can apply its principles and its growing expertise to meet the evolving needs of the people it serves. You have met that test.