Our Board
Officers
Sen. Gary Hart, Chairman
Gary Collins, President
John Isaacs, Executive Director
Ivo Spalatin, Secretary-Treasurer
Jerome Grossman, Chairman Emeritus
Board of Directors
Timothy Brennan, Attorney
Paul Castleman, Business Executive
David Cohen, Experience Corps
Alice Day, Sociologist
Amb. Jonathan DeanFormer U.S. Ambassador
Dudley Herschbach, Harvard University, Nobel Laureate
Dr. John H. Johns, Brigadier General, USA (Ret.)
Colonel Richard L. Klass, Colonel, USAF (Ret.)
Priscilla Johnson McMillan, Harvard University
Matthew Meselson, Harvard University
Robert K. Musil, Scholar in Residence, American University
Gene Pokorny, Consultant
Patricia Schroeder, PeacePAC Chair
Mark Sternman, Economic Analyst
Lorin Walker, Business Executive
Dr. James Walsh, MIT
Edith B. Wilkie, Congressional Specialist
Jules Zacher, Attorney
National Advisory Board
James Arnold, University of California, San Diego
Aron Bernstein, MIT
Julian Bond, Writer and Lecturer
Thomas Downey, Former U.S. Representative
Roger Fisher, Harvard University
Margaret Gage, Proteus Fund
Andrew Grossman, Political Organizer
Prof. Philip Schrag, Georgetown University Law Center
Sarah Sewall, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Herbert York, University of California, San Diego
Board Biographies
James Arnold
James Arnold, professor and chemist, received his bachelor degree, masters, and PhD degrees at Princeton University in 1943, 1945 and 1946 respectively. While doing graduate work, Arnold was associated with the Manhattan Project for the years 1943-1945. After completing his Ph.D., he joined the newly formed Institute for Nuclear Studies at the University of Chicago as a postdoctoral fellow, and in 1947, he went to Harvard University as a National Research Fellow.
The following year, Arnold returned to the Institute for Nuclear Studies in Chicago, first as a research associate working with W.F. Libby on the development of radiocarbon dating (until 1950), then as an assistant professor of chemistry. Arnold then developed, simultaneously with a group at Los Alamos, the liquid scintillation spectrometer for carbon-14 and tritium, the latter a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. He also discovered the short-lived isotope Be-7 in nature, which has found applications in meteorological research. From 1955 to 1958, Arnold was on the chemistry faculty at Princeton University. While there he discovered the long-lived isotope Be-10 in nature and began the study of its distribution in the natural environment. In 1958, he came to UCSD as one of the first appointments in what became the main campus. Soon thereafter he became the founding chairman of the chemistry department and a full professor.
In the 1960s, Arnold primarily studied cosmic-ray products in meteorites and lunar samples. With several colleagues he demonstrated the approximate constancy of the cosmic-ray flux over periods up to millions of years.
Beginning in the same period and throughout his UCSD career he also participated in NASA planetary missions. He was the Principal Investigator for the Gamma Ray Spectrometer experiment first on the unmanned Ranger 3, 4, and 5 missions and then on the Apollo 15 and 16 manned missions to the moon. He was a Co-investigator on a similar experiment on the failed Mars Observer mission.
Arnold is a consultant to NASA and has served as associate editor of the Journal of Chemical Physics. He was chairman of the sub-committee on radiochemistry of the National Research Council, and, in 1966-1968, he served on the International Technical Cooperation and Assistance Panel of the President's Science Advisory Committee. In 1964, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and has served on several of their committees. He received the E.O. Lawrence Award from the Atomic Energy Commission in 1968, and, in 1970, Arnold was honored by NASA with its medal for "Exceptional Scientific Achievement" in recognition of his work on lunar samples assigned to him by NASA. In 1976, he received the Leonard Medal from the Meteoritical Society. From 1979 to 1989, he served as director of the UCSD's newly established California Space Institute, a statewide research organization with emphasis on the useful applications of space. From 1983-1993, he occupied the Harold Urey Chair of Chemistry.
His current interests are mainly in the area of increasing access to the space frontier, in particular by lowering costs while maintaining or improving reliability.
He and his wife Louise live in La Jolla, CA and are long-time supporters of the Council for a Livable World.
Aron Bernstein
Aron Bernstein is Professor of Physics Emeritus at MIT where he has been on the faculty since 1961. He has taught a broad range of physics courses from freshman to graduate level. His research program has been in nuclear and particle physics, with an emphasis on studying the basic symmetries of matter, and currently involves collaborations with University and government laboratories, and colleagues in many countries.
Since 1969 he has been active in the area of nuclear arms control. His teaching has included seminars on the nuclear arms race with Phillip Morrison, co-organizing a recent student seminar on nuclear proliferation, and being the advisor to a student group on arms control.
Professor Bernstein chaired a Federation of American Scientists chapter at MIT and the MIT Faculty Disarmament Study Group and actively spoke out against the "star wars" anti-ballistic missile program from its inception. He worked with Henry Kendall and the Union of Concerned Scientists over a period of years, and continues to work with U.C.S. in its efforts to educate Congress on issues of arms control.
Professor Bernstein is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Scientists. He has been awarded John Simon Guggenheim and Humboldt Senior Research Fellowships.
Julian Bond
Julian Bond is presently Chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He is also a Distinguished Professor at American University in Washington, DC, and a Professor in history at the University of Virginia.
He has been an active participant in the movements for civil rights, economic justice, and peace for more than three decades. As an activist who has faced jail for his convictions, as a veteran of more than 20 years of service in the Georgia General Assembly, as a university professor, and as a writer who raises hard questions and proposes innovative solutions, he has been on the cutting edge of social change since 1960.
While a student at Morehouse College, he was a founder in 1960 of the Atlanta student sit-in and the anti-segregation organization, in addition to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Elected in 1965 to the Georgia House of Representatives, Bond was prevented from taking his seat by members who objected to his opposition to the Vietnam War - and eventually seated after a unanimous decision of the U.S. Supreme Court.
He is a commentator on America's Black Forum, the oldest black-owned show in television syndication. His poetry and articles have appeared in numerous publications. He has narrated numerous documentaries, including the Academy Award winning "A Time for Justice" and the prize-winning and critically acclaimed series "Eyes on the Prize."
Timothy L. Brennan
Timothy L. Brennan is currently the Senior Counsel at the Hartford Financial Services Group in Hartford Connecticut. Prior to his current position, Tim was special assistant to the General Counsel from 2001 to early 2002 and worked on various issues relating to the events of September 11, 2001
He has also served as a Capital Markets Attorney, a Corporate Attorney, and a Litigation Attorney in Connecticut and New York, and began his career with an internship at the Office of the New York Country District Attorney in 1994 and an externship at the Office of the Saint Louis Country Public Defender in 1995.
In addition, Tim is a long time political service volunteer. Since 1998, he has volunteered at numerous organizations including the Town Council (Town of West Hartford), Friends of Susan, Collins for Congress, Washington University for Clinton/Gore, the Patrick Kennedy for Rhode Island General Assembly and is a founding member of the American Constitution Society (Hartford Chapter)
Timothy is a current member of the Connecticut and New York State Bars as well a Fellow at the American College of Investment Counsel.
He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Providence College in Rhode Island and spent a year abroad studying at Oxford University. He obtained a JD from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri in 1995.
Paul Castleman
Paul Castleman is currently Chairman of the Board of Lincoln Technologies, computer software developers for medical research. He is the former President of BBN Advanced Computer, Inc., manufacturer of super-computer multiprocessors.
He is a long-time activist in the nuclear arms-control movement, and serves as Secretary-Treasurer for the Board of Directors of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. He was the founder of the Management Corps for the Emerging East which helped the former Soviet states move towards a market economy.
He was born January 17, 1942 in Boston Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard College in 1964. He is now a resident of San Francisco, California.
David Cohen
David Cohen serves as Senior Fellow at Experience Corps and Civic Ventures. He is President of Global Integrity.
He co-founded the Advocacy Institute, an institution of teaching and learning which facilitates the empowerment of communities underrepresented in the political process. In that capacity he pioneered advocacy strategies with pro democracy social justice organizations by building advocacy capacity in the U.S., India, Bangladesh, Namibia, Nepal, South Africa, Russia, and countries in Eastern and Central Europe. He is now retired from the Advocacy Institute
Prior to co founding the Advocacy Institute in 1985, Mr. Cohen was President and Chief Executive Officer of Common Cause from 1975 to the end of his term in May 1981. As a public interest issue advocate, Cohen has played a leadership role in numerous issue battles, including nuclear arms control, campaign finance, congressional reform, civil rights, consumer affairs, urban affairs, anti poverty, and end the war legislation.
Mr. Cohen served as President of the Professionals' Coalition for Nuclear Arms Control from 1984 1992. The coalition comprised the Lawyers' Alliance for World Security, Physicians for Social Responsibility, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and other professional groups. The Professionals' Coalition lobbied on national security issues measures and worked with professionals in educating their communities on these issues.
Gary Collins
Gary Collins is an attorney, educator and activist residing in Portland, Connecticut.
Arms control and improving national security were the centerpiece of Gary's campaign for US Congress (CT 2D) during the 2002 election cycle. During that campaign, which was ended when his hometown was redistricted out of the Connecticut's second district, Gary was an outspoken advocate for the need to think more creatively about structuring an arms control and national security agenda tailored toward the new and unique challenges confronting the United States, including convening the major nuclear states in comprehensive arms reduction talks, involving non-nuclear states in supporting arms control initiatives and framing a comprehensive agenda to move toward a world free of nuclear weapons.
Gary's congressional campaign was preceded by his service as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Clinton Justice Department (1994-1999). He was the recipient of the 1996 Justice for Victims of Crime Award, the 1997 U.S. Attorney's Special Achievement Award, and the 1998 Justice for Victims of Crime Award. After his service to the government, Gary worked as a partner with one of the nation's oldest and largest law firms. He presently serves as an executive for a Fortune 100 Company and teaches at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
A noted author and commentator, he sits on the board of several non-profit organizations and Co-Chairs Connecticut's chapter of the American Constitution Society for Law & Policy (ACS). He served as a senior advisor to Ned Lamont for US Senate during the 2006 election cycle.
Alice Day
Alice T. Day was born in New York City. She was educated at Smith College (BA, magna cum laude), Columbia University (MA in sociology), and The Australian National University (PhD in sociology). She has held a variety of positions, most recently that of Director of Successful Ageing, A.C.T. (a 3-year federal government project in the Australian Capital Territory). Before that she had been a consultant with both the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Office of Aged Services in the Premier's Department of the State of New South Wales, and Administrative Officer for the Education of Women and Girls with the Australian Commonwealth Schools Commission. She has also been a Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute (Washington, DC) and a visiting lecturer at Smith College, an instructor at both the University of Massachusetts and Mount Holyoke College, and an associate professor (adjunct) at Albertus Magnus College (New Haven, CT).
She has written several books, including: Too Many Americans (with Lincoln Day), "We Can Manage"-- Expectations about Care and Varieties of Family Support among Persons 75 Years of Age and Over, and Remarkable Survivors. Her other published works include some 30 articles and book chapters on such topics as: aging, the status of women, and population and environment.
In Washington, she is Chair of the Task Force on Environment & Natural Resources, Woman's National Democratic Club.
Amb. Jonathan Dean
Former ambassador Jonathan Dean joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1949 after combat infantry service in Europe in World War II. In the Foreign Service, he worked mainly on issues of East West relations, European security, and international peacekeeping. In the middle fifties, he helped to establish the new Federal German armed forces and helped with German entry into NATO. In the early 1960s, he was Principal Officer in Elisabethville, Katanga during the Tshombe secession and the UN peacekeeping intervention in the Congo, and then Deputy Director of the Office of United Nations Political Affairs, Department of State, where he worked on peacekeeping and economic sanctions. He was deputy US negotiator for the 1971 quadripartite agreement on Berlin. From 1973 to 1981, he was deputy US Representative and then US Representative to the NATO Warsaw Pact force reduction negotiations in Vienna (MBFR talks).
In 1982, Ambassador Dean joined the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as resident associate for arms control and European security issues. Since 1984, he has been adviser on arms control and international security issues to the Union of Concerned Scientists.
He is the author of several books on European security, including Ending Europe's Wars (Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1994) on how the cold war ended, post cold war security problems, and the institutions established to deal with them.
Ambassador Dean is former president of the United Nations Association of the Washington, DC metropolitan region.
Dean holds a Ph.D. in political science from George Washington University.
Thomas Downey
Thomas J. Downey, Chairman of the Downey McGrath Group, Inc., founded this government affairs consulting firm in January, 1993. Downey McGrath is a small, independent, bipartisan firm.
Downey is a hands-on leader who participates in the active management of each client's activities and personally advocates on their behalf. In 1994 Downey added a Republican partner, enabling the firm to represent its clients on both sides of the aisle.
Since 1993 the firm has represented Fortune 500 companies, labor unions, non-profit organizations, trade associations and coalitions in their dealings with the Federal government. He has worked on a wide variety of issues including taxes, health care, telecommunications, environment and appropriations on their behalf. Downey and the firm have also successfully represented a number of clients on transactional issues with the federal government, such as the mergers of AOL and Time Warner, Chevron and Texaco and Exxon Mobil, as well as on federal procurement contracts.
Downey was elected to the Congress in 1974, at the age of 25. He served as the Democratic representative of the 2nd District of New York until 1993. Downey began his service on the Armed Services Committee and was later appointed to the House Budget Committee, and the Ways and Means Committee, where he served for fourteen years.
On the Armed Services Committee, Downey was an advisor to both the SALT and START arms negotiations talks, and is a past president of Parliamentarians for Global Action, an international arms control organization.
At Ways and Means Downey championed mortgage revenue bonds, saving the state and local property and income tax deduction, and the earned income tax credit. He also served as the Acting Chairman of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources for five years, where he was the chief House architect of the 1988 welfare reform legislation, the Family Support Act, and of landmark child care legislation. Downey also chaired the Subcommittee on Human Services of the House Select Committee on Aging from 1987 to 1993. In addition, he co-authored the original Superfund legislation, and later led efforts to expand Superfund.
As a senior member of the Trade Subcommittee, he sponsored the legislation which created a Free Trade Zone with Israel. He played a critical role in GSP legislation, the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Act and in the 1984 and 1988 Omnibus Trade Acts, particularly in the area of the intellectual property provisions.
Downey's leadership and record of success did not end with his departure from Congress. In 1993, he was asked by President Clinton to lead the private-sector effort to build bipartisan Congressional support for the passage of the NAFTA-enabling legislation and later was asked to head the bipartisan effort to pass the Uruguay Round GATT legislation. His success on trade matters continues to this day; in 2000 he was one of the leading lobbyists fighting for the passage of Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China.
President-elect Clinton chose Downey to head the HHS, HUD, and VA cluster of the 1992 Presidential transition, and later appointed him to the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform (the Kerrey Commission). During the 1996 and 2000 presidential campaigns, Downey assisted Vice President Al Gore in his debate preparation.
Roger Fisher
Roger Fisher is the Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project and the Williston Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School, where he has taught since 1958. Prior to joining the Law School faculty in 1958, he worked for the U.S. Government in Paris, practiced law in Washington, D.C., and served as an assistant to the Solicitor General in the Department of Justice.
Professor Fisher has taught and written extensively on international law, international conflict, and for more than a decade has devoted himself almost exclusively to the task of understanding and improving the process by which people, organizations, and governments deal with their differences. Professor Fisher is a member of the steering committee of the Program on Negotiation, a consortium of dispute resolution programs among Harvard, M.I.T., and Tufts.
His latest book, Beyond Reason: Using Emotions as You Negotiate, was co-authored by Daniel Shapiro. In 1998, he co-authored Getting It Done: How to Lead When You're Not in Charge, with Alan Sharp with John Richardson. He also is co-author with Andrea Kupfer Schneider, Elizabeth Borgwardt, and Brian Ganson of Coping with International Conflict: A Systematic Approach to Influence in International Negotiation, published by Prentice Hall in 1997. Beyond Machiavelli: Tools for Coping with Conflict, with co-authors Elizabeth Kopelman and Andrea Kupfer Schneider, was published by Harvard University Press in the Spring of 1994. The second edition of Getting to YES: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, with co-authors William Ury and Bruce Patton, was published by Penguin Books in 1991. Getting Ready to Negotiate: The Getting to YES Workbook, with co-author Danny Ertel, was published by Penguin Books in June 1995. He is co-author with Scott Brown of Getting Together: Building Relationships As We Negotiate, published by Penguin Books in 1988. In addition, a video workshop for senior executives and corporate training entitled Getting to Yes: The Video Workshop was produced in 1991. His earlier books include: Improving Compliance with International Law; Points of Choice: International Crises and the Role of Law; International Mediation: A Working Guide -- Ideas for the Practitioner; Dear Israelis, Dear Arabs: A Working Approach to Peace; and International Conflict for Beginners.
Professor Fisher has 30 years' experience dealing with international conflict as an advisor and strategist. He advised both the Iranian and United States governments in negotiations for the release of the American hostages in 1981. He helped design the process for the successful Camp David negotiations between President Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Begin of Israel. He met with and advised the presidents of three of the five Central American countries in advance of the 1987 Esquipulas II treaty on a regional peace plan; he was present in Guatemala City during the negotiations at the request of President Cerezo of Guatemala.
As an individual, through the consulting firms of Conflict Management Inc. and Vantage Partners, and with the non-profit Conflict Management Group, Professor Fisher has taught and advised corporate executives, labor leaders, attorneys, diplomats, and military and government officials on settlement and negotiation strategy. In recent years he has conducted negotiation seminars in Bonn, Moscow, Stockholm, Paris, London, Milan, San Salvador, Bogota, Mexico City, and the Republic of South Africa.
Margaret E. Gage
Meg Gage is President and Executive Director of Proteus Fund. She founded the Peace Development Fund in 1981 and served as its Executive Director until 1992. She served as the Executive Director of the Ottinger Foundation from 1992 through 1999 and founded Proteus Fund in 1995. She was awarded the Inaugural Robert W. Scrivner Award in 1986 for Creativity by an Individual Grantmaker. In 1997 she wrote the Funders Handbook on Money in Politics.
Andrew Grossman
Andrew Grossman is Executive Director of Wal-Mart Watch. Prior to starting Wal-Mart Watch, Andy was most recently the Director of Polling, Targeting and Data for America Coming Together.
A career campaigner, Andy served as Executive Director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) where he worked in a variety of jobs from 1999 through 2003. Grossman got his start in politics in 1988 working on Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign. He has worked for Democratic candidates at the local, state and national level.
In 1998, he was the New York Democratic Party's coordinated campaign director, where he worked successfully to elect Chuck Schumer to the United States Senate and Elliot Spitzer as New York's Attorney General. Andy served as Treasurer of NY Senate 2000, the joint fundraising arm of the DSCC and Hillary Clinton's senate campaign.
Andrew graduated with a B.A. from Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
Jerome Grossman
Jerome Grossman, chairman emeritus of Council for a Livable World served as Chairman of the Council from 1991 to 2006 and was executive director and President of both the Council and Council for a Livable World Education Fund from 1980 - 1991.
A writer, lecturer, radio commentator, activist and former businessman, Grossman received an A.B. from Harvard University in 1938. From 1944 to 1975, he owned and operated Massachusetts Envelopes Company, a producer of envelopes and related products. In 1969, he founded the Vietnam Moratorium Movement. He has been active in many political campaigns, serving as a member of the Democratic National Committee, chairman of the Robert Drinan for Congress campaign committee, and the key roles in the1968 McCarthy for President campaign and the 1972 McGovern for President campaign. He toured the country in the nuclear weapons freeze campaign and chaired the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union and was the founder of the Massachusetts Political Action for Peace. His main interest has always been the elimination of nuclear weapons.
He currently lectures at several colleges and writes articles for numerous publications, including the New Republic, Nation Magazine, Boston Globe, Boston-Herald-American, Boston Phoenix, Jewish Advocate, Christian Science Monitor, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Los Angeles Times, Notre Dame Law School Journal, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, the Wellesley Townsman and others. He is the author of Relentless Liberal, published by Vantage Press in 1996.
Sen. Gary Hart
Sen. Gary Hart has served as chairman of Council for a Livable World since 2006.
Since retiring from the United States Senate, Gary Hart has been extensively involved in international law and business, as a strategic advisor to major U.S. corporations, and as a teacher, author and lecturer.
He is currently Wirth Chair Professor at the University of Colorado and Distinguished Fellow at the New America Foundation. For 15 years, Senator Hart was Senior Counsel to Coudert Brothers, a multinational law firm with offices in thirty-two cities located in nineteen countries around the world. He was co chair of the U.S. Commission on National Security for the 21st Century. The Commission performed the most comprehensive review of national security since 1947, predicted the terrorist attacks on America, and proposed a sweeping overhaul of U.S. national security structures and policies for the post-Cold War new century and the age of terrorism.
He was president of Global Green, the U.S. affiliate of Mikhail Gorbachev's environmental foundation, Green Cross International. He is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the U.S.-Russia Investment Fund; a former member of the Defense Policy Board; and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was co-chair of the Council task force that produced the report: "America Unprepared-America Still at Risk", in October, 2002. Senator Hart is currently a member of the National Academy of Sciences task force on Science and Security.
Gary Hart has been Visiting Fellow, Chatham Lecturer, and McCallum Memorial Lecturer at Oxford University, Global Fund Lecturer at Yale University, and Regents Lecturer at the University of California. He has earned a doctor of philosophy degree from Oxford University and graduate law and divinity degrees from Yale University. He was visiting lecturer at the Yale Law School and is the author of fourteen books.
Gary Hart represented the State of Colorado in the United States Senate from 1975 to 1987. In 1984 and 1988, he was a candidate for his party's nomination for President.
Senator Hart was first elected to the Senate in 1974, having never before sought public office, and was re elected in 1980. During his 12 years in the Senate, he served on the Armed Services Committee, where he specialized in nuclear arms control and was an original founder of the military reform caucus. He also served on the Senate Environment Committee, Budget Committee, and Intelligence Oversight Committee. During his Senate years, he played a leadership role in major environmental and conservation legislation, military reform initiatives, new initiatives to advance the information revolution and new directions in foreign policy. He is widely-recognized as among the first to forecast the end of the Cold War.
Gary Hart travels extensively to the former Soviet Union, Europe, the Far East and Latin America. Beginning in 1988, he was active in negotiating ground breaking joint venture agreements in Russia and has published a book on the former Soviet Union entitled Russia Shakes the World: The Second Russian Revolution (1991).
Senator Hart resides with his family in Kittredge, Colorado.
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Dudley Herschbach
Dudley Herschbach was born in San Jose, California (1932) and received his B.S. degree in Mathematics (1954) and M.S. in Chemistry (1955) at Stanford University, followed by an A.M. degree in Physics (1956) and Ph.D. in Chemical Physics (1958) at Harvard. After a term as Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard (1957-1959), he was a member of the Chemical Faculty at the University of California, Berkeley (1959-1963), before returning to Harvard as Professor of Chemistry (1963), where he is now Baird Professor of Science (since 1976). He has served as Chairman of the Chemical Physics program (1964-1977) and the Chemistry Department (1977-1980), and Co-Master with his wife Georgene of Currier House (1981-1986). His teaching includes graduate courses in quantum mechanics, chemical kinetics, molecular spectroscopy, and collision theory, as well as undergraduate courses in physical chemistry and general chemistry for freshmen, his most challenging assignment. He is engaged in several efforts to improve K-12 science education and public understanding of science. He serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Science Service, which publishes Science News and conducts the Intel Science Talent Search and the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Royal Chemical Society of Great Britain. His awards include the Pure Chemistry Prize of the American Chemical Society (1965), the Linus Pauling Medal (1978), the Michael Polanyi Medal (1981), the Irving Langmuir Prize of the Americal Physical Society (1983), the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1986), jointly with Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi, the National Medal of Science (1991), the Jaroslav Heyrovsky Medal (1992), the Sierra Nevada Distinguished Chemist Award (1993), the Kosolapoff Award of the ACS (1994), the William Walker Prize (1994); and named by Chemical Engineering News among 75 leading contributors to the chemical enterprise in the past 75 years (1998), and the Council of Scientific Society President's Award for Support of Science (1999).
Professor Herschbach has published over 400 papers. His current research is devoted to methods of orienting molecules for studies of collision stereodynamics, means of slowing and trapping molecules in order to examine chemistry at long deBroglie wavelengths, reactions in catalytic supersonic expansions, and a dimensional scaling approach to strongly correlated many-particle interactions, in electronic structure and Bose-Einstein condensates.
John Isaacs
John Isaacs is the Executive Director and President of Council for a Livable World and Executive Director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.
Isaacs is one of the leaders of the nation's arms control community and is a close student on the working of Congress. He has worked for Council for a Livable World since 1978.
His previous work includes serving as: principal foreign affairs legislative assistant to Representative Stephen Solarz (D-NY); legislative representative specializing in foreign policy and defense budget issues for Americans for Democratic Action; and a foreign service officer serving 13 1/2 months in Vietnam.
In addition, Isaacs has also published articles in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlanta Journal, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, the Christian Science Monitor, Nuclear Times, Arms Control Today, American Journal of Public Health and Technology Review.
Isaacs holds a master's degree from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College.
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Dr. John Johns
General Johns served 26 years as a combat arms officer, retiring in 1978 as a brigadier general. He served in command positions up to Assistant Division Commander of the 1st Infantry Division and held numerous staff positions, including 8 years on the Army General Staff, culminating his career as Director, Human Resources Development.
In 1960, General Johns began a series of assignments focused on counterinsurgency strategy and doctrine. He was on a committee at the Special Warfare School in 1961 that developed the first Counterinsurgency course, went to Vietnam in 1962, where he was senior advisor to the Vietnam Political Warfare School, and returned to serve in a series of staff positions on the Army General Staff. During these staff positions, General Johns focused on the nation-building role of the U.S. military. His recommendations were distributed as policy guidance for the development of counterinsurgency doctrine and curricula. The one recommendation that was rejected was that U.S. combat forces not be used in counterinsurgency operations in Vietnam; he argued that the U.S. role should be limited to advisory duties. While serving in the office of the army chief of staff, he served on a committee that monitored war crimes committed by U.S. forces in Vietnam.
After retirement and a tour as a deputy assistant secretary of defense, General Johns served for 14 years as a professor of political science at the National Defense University (NDU), where he taught National Security Strategy and National Security Decision-making and regional studies of Latin America. After retiring from NDU in 1996, Dr. Johns taught courses on Ethics and the U.S. Constitution at the Federal Executive Institute until 2005. In October 2001, he taught a one-week ethics course for the 21 senior officers of the Omani Air Force; the fourth day was on international terrorism.
He is currently the Washington Area coordinator for seminars conducted by the National War College Alumni Association. He participates in an internet chat group that focuses on national security issues. The group membership of over 250 consists of scholars, senior retired and active military officers, media representatives, and policymakers throughout the government.
General Johns is a graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College, the National War College, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He has masters' degrees in psychology and international relations, and a doctorate in sociology.
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Colonel Richard L. Klass
Colonel Richard L. Klass is a graduate of the USAF Academy and National War College and was a Rhodes Scholar and White House Fellow.
He logged over 500 combat hours as a Forward Air Controller in Vietnam and was awarded the Silver Star, DFC, and Purple Heart.
Since retiring in 1980 he has held international marketing positions in several aerospace and consulting companies, as well as serving as the President to Council for a Livable World's Veterans' Alliance for Security and Democracy.
Priscilla Johnson McMillan
Priscilla Johnson McMillan, author, whose latest book is "The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race," published by Viking in 2005, is an Associate Fellow of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University.
Her other books are Marina and Lee (Harper & Row, 1977) and Khrushchev and the Arts: The Politics of Soviet Culture 1962-64 (MIT, 1965), and she was translator of Svetlana Alliluyeva's Twenty Letters to a Friend (Harper and Row, 1967).
Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Harper's, The New Republic, The Reporter, The Saturday Review, Scientific American, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and other publications.
Matthew Meselson
Matthew Meselson is the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences and a member of the BCSIA Board of Directors. He received Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago in 1951 and from the California Institute of Technology in 1957. He was a research fellow and then Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry at California Institute of Technology until he joined the Harvard faculty in 1960, where he conducted research primarily in the field of molecular genetics. Currently he is studying mechanisms of molecular evolution.
Since 1963 Dr. Meselson has been interested in chemical and biological defense and arms control and has served as a consultant on this subject to various government agencies. He is co-director of the Harvard-Sussex Program on CBW Armament and Arms Limitation and co-editor of its quarterly journal, Chemical Weapons Convention Bulletin. Dr. Meselson is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Academie des Sciences (Paris), the Academia Sanctae Clarae (Genoa), the Royal Society (London), the Institute of Medicine, and the Council on Foreign Relations.
He has received the Award in Molecular Biology from the National Academy of Sciences, the Eli Lilly Award in Microbiology and Immunology, the Alumni Medal of the University of Chicago, the Public Service Award of the Federation of American Scientists, the Legman Award of the New York Academy of Sciences, the Alumni Distinguished Service Award of the California Institute of Technology, the Presidential Award of the New York Academy of Sciences, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award of the American Association of the Advancement of Science, and the 1995 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal of the Genetics Society of America. He has also been awarded numerous honorary degrees. Dr. Meselson is presently a member of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
Robert K. Musil
Robert K. Musil, Ph.D, MPH, is Scholar in Residence and Adjunct Professor in the School of International Studies at American University where he teaches in the Nuclear Studies Institute and the Program on Global Environmental Politics. Dr. Musil was Executive Director and CEO of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and its Director of Policy and Programs from 1992-2006. He is a graduate of Yale and Northwestern Universities and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and has been a Visiting Honorary Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and of Pembroke College, Cambridge University. Currently, he is a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Visiting Fellow.
Dr. Musil specializes in contemporary global security, sustainability, and health issues, as well as Cold War history, culture, and policy. He is the author of numerous articles and the forthcoming Changing the Climate: Healing, Humanity, and Hope for a Heated Planet (Rutgers University Press). He has represented PSR as chief spokesperson in Washington and as its NGO representative at numerous international negotiations.
A long time leader of the peace, nuclear disarmament, and environmental movements, Dr. Musil has also been Executive Director of the Professionals' Coalition for Nuclear Arms Control, the SANE Education Fund, the Center for National Security Studies Military Affairs Project, and CCCO: An Agency for Military and Draft Counseling. He is a former Army Captain who taught communications and policy at the Defense Information School, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. Dr. Musil initiated PSR's opposition to the war in Iraq in 2003 and has been central to campaigns for the CTBT, NPT, and other arms control measures.
Dr. Musil helped launch PSR's environmental program in the early 1990's and has led PSR campaigns for safe and affordable drinking water, clean air, and to prevent toxic pollution and global climate change. He also initiated PSR's U.S.-Mexico Border Project in El Paso and Juarez, Mexico.
From 1978-1992, Dr. Musil was the Executive Producer and host of "Consider the Alternatives" a half-hour weekly radio program syndicated to over 150 stations with 2,000,000 listeners. He has been the producer of numerous ground-breaking independent video documentaries and public radio documentary series including "Shadows of the Nuclear Age: American Culture and the Bomb"; "Mushrooms: Nuclear War and the Imagination" hosted by Colleen Dewhurst; and "War in Space: The Debate over Star Wars" hosted by Ed Asner. Dr. Musil is two-time winner of the Armstrong Award for Excellence in Radio Broadcasting.
Gene Pokorny
Gene Pokorny was Chairman of Research International/Cambridge, a market research and consulting practice that is a unit of the Research International division of WPP, the world's largest marketing and communications services organization.
In addition to being on the Council for a Livable World's Board of Directors since 1977, Pokorny has also been a Director (1980-1992) of The Benton Foundation in Washington, DC and is currently a Trustee of the Marketing Science Institute in Cambridge.
Pokorny has been active in the peace and arms control movements, as well as numerous political campaigns over the last 30 years, at both the state and national levels. He was a member of the Presidential Forum/Debates Board of Advisors that sponsored the Carter-Ford Presidential Debates in the 1976 election. In addition, he was a member of the Twentieth Century Fund's 1980 Task Force on Presidential Television Debates whose final report played a vital role in institutionalizing debates in America's quadrennial Presidential elections.
He has lectured widely throughout the American business and public sector communities, and written numerous articles and monographs for various publications on public policy and public affairs issues.
Prof. Philip Schrag
Philip G. Schrag is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University.
During the Carter Administration, he served as the Deputy General Counsel of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and as the Legal Advisor to the U.S. Delegation to the comprehensive test ban (CTB) negotiations.
His twelve books include Listening for the Bomb (1989), a study of the Reagan administration's response to the CTB verification project of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Global Action (1992), a study of how Parliamentarians for Global Action forced the nations of the world to pay greater attention to the CTB issue by forcing them to consider proposed amendments to the Limited Test Ban Treaty.
At Georgetown, he directs the Public Interest Law Scholars Program, which provides scholarships and educational enrichment for selected students who want to become lawyers for government agencies and non profit organizations.
Pat Schroeder
Former Congresswoman Patricia Scott Schroeder is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), the national trade organization of the U.S. book publishing industry, a post she assumed on June 1, 1997. Mrs. Schroeder left Congress undefeated in 1996 after representing Colorado's First Congressional District (Denver) in the United States House of Representatives for 24 years. For a brief period of time in 1986, she considered running for President but withdrew for lack of funds despite the fact that she ranked third in a Time magazine poll.
From January to June 1997, she held the rank of Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. In addition to heading the AAP, Mrs. Schroeder also serves on the Marguerite Casey Foundation Board of Directors, the American Bar Association's Center for Human Rights Executive Committee, and is the Chair of the Council for a Livable World's PeacePAC. She also serves on various advisory committees dealing with literacy and issues affecting children and women.
Born in Portland, Oregon in 1940, Mrs. Schroeder graduated magna cum laude in 1961 from the University of Minnesota while working as an insurance claims adjuster to support herself through college. Mrs. Schroeder went on to Harvard Law School, one of only 15 women in a class of more than 500 men. She earned her J.D. in 1964 and moved to Denver, Colorado with her husband, James, who in 1972 encouraged her to challenge an incumbent Republican for the House seat representing Colorado's First Congressional District.
The mother of two young children at the time she was elected to the House, Mrs. Schroeder went on to serve 12 terms. During her tenure in the House, she became the Dean of Congressional Women, co-chaired the Congressional Caucus on Women's Issues for 10 years, and served on the House Judiciary Committee, the Post Office and Civil Service Committee, and was the first woman to serve on the House Armed Services Committee. As chair of the House Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families from 1991 to 1993, Mrs. Schroeder guided the Family and Medical Leave Act and the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act to enactment in 1993, a fitting legislative achievement for her lifetime of work on behalf of women's and family issues. She was also active on many military issues, expediting the National Security Committee's vote to allow women to fly combat missions in 1991 and working to improve the situation of military families through passage of her Military Family Act in 1985.
A leader in the cause of education and a champion of free speech, Mrs. Schroeder was never a single-issue candidate. As Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property she was one of the most knowledgeable members of Congress on copyright issues and a strong advocate for protecting intellectual property rights and for reinforcing the creative incentive for developing intellectual property. She continues this advocacy in her leadership of AAP.
Mrs. Schroeder is the author of two books: Champion of the Great American Family (Random House, 1989) and 24 Years of House Work...and the Place Is Still a Mess (Andrews McMeel, 1998). She is in the National Women's Hall of Fame and the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.
Sarah Sewall
Sarah Sewall is Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Lecturer in public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
From 1993 to 1996, Sewall served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Assistance.
She also has been Associate Director of the Committee on International Security Studies at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a visiting scholar at the Harvard Program on Negotiation, and worked a defense analyst at several Washington, D.C. organizations.
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Ivo Spalatin
Ivo Spalatin is a consultant and lecturer on arms control and national security issues.
During the previous six years, he served as Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Senator Majority Leader George J. Mitchell.
From 1993 - 1998, he served in the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, where he was first senior policy advisor and director of policy planning and then Director of the Office of Congressional Affairs. There he worked on issues such as nuclear, chemical and conventional arms control, defense conversion and executive-legislative relations.
From 1977 - 1992 he was staff director of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs' Subcommittee on Arms Control, International Security and Science. There he was responsible for over 100 hearings, investigations, studies, reports and speeches on U.S. foreign policy and national security issues.
Prior to that, he served for seven years as administrative assistant to Representative Clement Zablocki of Wisconsin.
Mr. Spalatin is a graduate of Marquette University in Milwaukee, and received and M.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University.
Mark Sternman
Mark Sternman works for MassDevelopment and serves as the agency's Vice President, Research. In this capacity, Sternman oversees in-house research initiatives, with an emphasis on economic and development outreach.
Prior to joining MassDevelopment, Sternman served as a senior policy advisor in U.S. Senator John Kerry's Boston office and as economic development director in U.S. Representative Martin Meehan's Lowell office.
Sternman received his B.A. from Dartmouth College and his Masters in International Security Policy from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
He and his wife Diana Pisciotta reside in Boston.
Lorin Walker
Lorin Walker is the daughter of Captain Bruce C. Walker USAF, MIA 1972. In addition to raising her nine year old son and serving as the Business/Operations Manager for The Technical Committee, whose charge it is to manage and oversee Microsoft in its compliance of the antitrust settlement of 2002 in concert with the office of the New York Attorney General and the United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, Ms. Walker devotes a significant amount of time to ensuring a nation where there are no more war orphans created for unjust and mismanaged militaristic pursuits.
She serves as Vice President to Council for A Livable World's Veterans' Alliance for Security and Democracy, supporting the election of progressive veterans and individuals who defend and forward morally requisite veterans issues and cogent national security to the US Congress. She has been a congressional intern, served as an at-large delegate to the 2004 DNCC and on the founding Board of Directors for Veterans and Military Families for Progress. In Washington state Ms. Walker serves on the Executive Board for her Legislative District Democratic Party organization and as 2nd Vice-Chair to the state Democratic Party's Veteran's Caucus.
Dr. James Walsh
Dr. James Walsh is a Research Associate in the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he is leading two series of dialogues on nuclear issues, one with leading figures in Iran and another with representatives from North Korea.
Before joining MIT, Dr. Walsh was a Research Associate of Harvard University's Managing the Atom Project at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Before Harvard, Dr. Walsh was a visiting scholar at the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the country's three nuclear weapons labs.
Dr. Walsh's research and writings focus on international security, and in particular, topics involving weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and the Middle East. Dr. Walsh has testified before the U. S. Senate on the issue of nuclear terrorism.
Dr. Walsh's comments and analysis have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Times of London, the Christian Science Monitor, and numerous other publications. He has appeared on a variety of television and radio programs, from the BBC to MTV.
In 2005, Dr. Walsh served as historical consultant for the documentary, Fortress Australia, which opened at the Melbourne Film Festival and was later broadcast by Australian Broadcast Corporation. Dr. Walsh is the terrorism and international affairs analyst for the NBC-TV affiliate in Boston and is a frequent contributor to CNN and National Public Radio.
Dr. Walsh's writings have appeared in several scholarly journals including Political Science Quarterly, the Nonproliferation Review, International Studies Review, and Contemporary Security Policy.
Dr. Walsh is founder and chair of the Harvard International Working Group on Radiological Weapons. He is also editor of the book series, Terrorism: Documents of International & Local Control, and is currently working on a book about Iran. He is the author of "Nuclear Terrorism: Risk, Consequences, and Response," a chapter which appears in Countering Terrorism: Dimensions of Preparedness (MIT Press, 2002).
Walsh was named a Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar by the United States Institute for Peace and won the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship from the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
Dr. Walsh received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Edith B. Wilkie
Edith B. Wilkie served as a Congressional staff member on Capitol Hill from 1968 to 1995. Most recently she served as Executive Director for 16 years for Congress' Arms Control and Foreign Policy Caucus, a bipartisan organization of 150 members of the U.S. Senate and House who worked together on foreign policy initiatives.
She previously worked as Chief of Staff for Rep. Fortney (Pete) Stark (D-CA) and also as Chief of Staff for Rep. Ogden R. Reid (R-NY).
In addition to serving on the Board of Directors of Council for a Livable World and Peace-PAC, she is currently President of the Peace Through Law Education Fund and serves on the boards of the Ploughshares Fund and the Center for International Policy.
She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
She is a graduate of Vassar College and currently splits her time between Edgewater, Maryland and Carmel, California.
Herbert York
Herbert York served as a physicist on the famous Manhattan Project from 1943 to 1945.
He became the first director of the Lawrence Livermore Lab in which capacity he served from 1952 to 1958.
He was the Director of Defense Department Research and Engineering (Office of the Secretary of Defense) from 1958 to 1961.
He was a member of the PSAC from 1958 to 1961 and 1964 and 1968, and chief scientist for the Advanced Research Projects Agency in 1958
He was the founding chancellor of the University of California, San Diego in which capacity he served from 1961 to 1964 and 1970 to 1972.
He was a member of the General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament from 1961-69 and chief negotiator for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty between 1978 and 1981.
He is the founder and Director Emeritus of the University of California, San Diego Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.
His published works include Race to Oblivion; Oppenheimer Teller and the Superbomb; Making Weapons, Talking Peace, in addition to numerous articles on nuclear disarmament.
Jules Zacher
Jules Zacher has practiced law since 1974 in state and federal court in Pennsylvania, including work as a trial lawyer in one of the premier personal injury law firms in the nation prior to starting his own firm. He has been active in community affairs in the Greys Ferry area of Philadelphia. He has represented plaintiffs in personal injury lawsuits involving children poisoned by lead paint, workers injured on construction sites, persons injured in motor vehicle accidents, and medical providers not paid by insurance companies.
Significantly, Mr. Zacher has also used various federal statutes to curtail the spread of nuclear weapons. He is currently representing the Center on a lawsuit against the WMD Commission for its failure to comply with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). The purpose of the lawsuit is to obtain the documents that the WMD Commission relied upon to reach the numerous conclusions mentioned in its report. These documents may reveal the political pressure placed on various governmental agencies in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.
Zacher received his law degree at Temple University in 1974 and his master's degree in economics from Temple in 1970. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1964.
Zacher is married to Yvonne Cook, and they live in Philadelphia. Among his various avocations and pastimes, Jules is an avid tennis player.
