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Ed Markey: “Would you commit to working vigorously to ensure that no additional country on the planet obtains a nuclear weapons…”

On the recordJanuary 10, 2017
Would you commit to working vigorously to ensure that no additional country on the planet obtains a nuclear weapons capacity?
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey asks Tillerson to commit to nuclear nonproliferation efforts.

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