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During the round table conversation, the men agreed America’s influence in the world is waning. And they said they worry about Iran and North Korea building nuclear weapons.

James Schlesinger was chief of defense under Presidents Nixon and Ford in the 1970’s. He said a new nuclear age is dawning.

“Over time the biggest threat is the proliferation of nuclear weapons,” he said. “That looks as if it is coming and as a result the world will become more uncertain, and possibly chaotic.”

And he added that nothing, and no administration Republican or Democratic, seem to stop Iran, which he said is planning a weapons program with impunity.