Vice President Gore and the two senators who sponsored the most significant national security legislation since the end of the Cold War will launch the Inaugural Symposium of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the hub of the Kennedy School of Government's research, teaching, and training in international affairs, environmental and resource issues and science and technology policy.

The Vice President will speak on Friday, Oct. 31, at 3 p.m. in the ARCO Forum of Public Affairs.

Sen. Richard Lugar and former Sen. Sam Nunn will be honored at 5:30 p.m. in the Taubman Building's 5th Floor Conference Room, for their historic legislation which secured the crumbling Soviet nuclear arsenal. The so-called Nunn-Lugar legislation which was first passed in 1991 and has been renewed every year since, has had a profound impact on international security.

The two-day symposium will bring together key policymakers like Sen. Pete Domenici; Timothy Wirth, under-secretary of state for global affairs; and John Sawhill, president of the Nature Conservancy; and former senior officials like former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, former Office of Management and Budget director Richard Darman, and former National Security adviser Brent Scowcroft with about 100 other serious thinkers to consider the question: What are the most important challenges to American security and well-being in the next quarter-century? The conversation around that question will help shape the Belfer Center's research agenda.