Board of Directors
MATTHEW BUNN
Matthew Bunn is Assistant Director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
From 1994-1996, while on the staff of the National Academy of Sciences, Bunn served as an adviser to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he took part in a wide range of U.S.-Russian negotiations relating to the management of weapons-usable nuclear materials, including security and accounting for nuclear materials, cutting off production of weapons plutonium, mutual declaration and inspection of nuclear material stockpiles, and means to reduce excess plutonium stocks. He was the staff director for the classified study of security for nuclear materials conducted by the President's Committee of Advisers on Science and Technology, presented to President Clinton on May 1, 1995, and for the recent report to Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin of the U.S.-Russian Independent Scientific Commission on Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium. Previously, Bunn directed the study Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' Committee on International Security and Arms Control, published in two volumes in January 1994 and July 1995.
From 1990-1992, Bunn was Editor of Arms Control Today, a monthly journal published by the Arms Control Association, where Bunn served as Associate Director, having previously served as Senior Policy Analyst from 1986-1990. In addition to the recent studies, Bunn is the author of the book Foundation for the Future: The ABM Treaty and National Security, several book chapters, and dozens of articles in magazines and newspapers including Scientific American, Science, Technology Review, Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and The Washington Post. He is a member of the Russian-American Nuclear Security Advisory Council, an organization devoted to promoting nuclear security cooperation between the United States and Russia, and a consultant to the Department of Energy and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Bunn received his bachelors' and masters' degrees in political science, specializing in defense and arms control, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985.
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 both treasurer and board member of Center for Arms Control & 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.
LINCOLN H. DAY
Lincoln Day was born in Iowa and received his B.A. at Yale, and both his M.A. and Ph D. at Columbia University. From 1973 until his retirement in 1993, Mr. Day was the Senior Fellow at the Department of Demography, Research School of Social Sciences, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University. He has also served as Chief of the Demographic & Social Statistics Branch for the United Nations. Previously to that, Mr. Day served as Associate Professor of Public Health and Sociology at Yale, Research Associate for the Bureau of Applied Social Research at Columbia, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Princeton and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Mount Holyoke College.
In addition, Lincoln Day has also published a number of books including: Too Many Americans, Analyzing Population Trends: Differential Fertility in Pluralistic Society, The Future of Low-Birthrate Populations and has written and published about 80 papers in professional journals and chapter books on issues such as: fertility, mortality, migration, age structure, labor force, divorce, demographic theory, population and resources, census-taking methodology, optimum population concepts. He has also traveled to 55 different countries throughout the years.
LAURIE DEWEY
As an activist and long time supporter of organizations dedicated to arms control and nuclear disarmament, Laurie Dewey is committed to the preservation of a world wide livable and safe environment. Now retired, Dewey was an owner of an interior design business for twenty years. She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Ms. Dewey is a graduate of Connecticut College and Parsons School of Design.
ROBERT F. DRINAN
Father Robert Drinan has been a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center since 1981. He has taught at numerous other universities as a visiting professor and lecturer and was the Dean of Boston College Law School from 1956 to 1970. He was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1953 and was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bar, and U.S. Supreme Court Bar between 1950 and 1956. He also served as a member of the Congress representing Massachusetts from 1971 to 1981. He traveled on congressional delegations across the world and also participated in human rights missions in Latin America and Vietnam.
He has received honorary degrees from twenty-three universities, and received his law degrees at the Georgetown University Law Center in 1949 and 1950. Father Drinan has published numerous books and appeared in such publications as Christian Century, London Tablet, America, and the Boston Globe. He has also been active in The Journal of Church and State, the National Catholic Reporter, America, and the Family Law Quarterly. He has been an active leader in the American Bar Association along with numerous other professional organizations. He was the President of Americans for Democratic Action, is honorary President of the World Federalist Association, was Founder of the Lawyers Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control and the National Interreligious Task Force on Soviet Jewry, and is a member of numerous other political associations.
ANN DRUYAN
Ann Druyan is an author, lecturer, and television and motion picture writer/producer whose work is largely concerned with the effects of science and technology on our civilization. She was co-writer of the Emmy and Peabody Award winning television series COSMOS. Ms. Druyan served as Creative Director of the NASA Voyager Interstellar Record Project to design a complex message, including music and images, for possible alien civilizations.
She has also played key roles in establishing an American seismic network in the former Soviet Union to monitor Soviet compliance with their moratorium on underground nuclear tests; in a joint U.S./Soviet scientific study of implementing and verifying massive nuclear disarmament; and in a U.S./ Soviet project to design a legally and scientifically viable treaty banning chemical and biological warfare. During the Soviet nuclear test moratorium she organized three of the largest non-violent demonstrations ever held at the Nevada Test Site. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
In addition, Ms. Druyan was elected in 1988, and served for ten years as Secretary of the Federation of American Scientists, an organization consisting of five thousand scientists and engineers, some fifty Nobel Laureates among them.
Ms. Druyan was married to her long time collaborator, astronomer Carl Sagan, until his death in December 1996. Their children are Alexandra, born in 1982 and Sam, born in 1991.
AMBASSADOR PETER W. GALBRAITH
Amb. Peter Galbraith joined the faculty of National Defense University in 1999. Peter W. Galbraith has been on the NWC faculty since October 1998.
From 1993 to 1998, he served as the first U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Croatia, where he actively participated in the negotiation of all three agreements that ended the wars in the former Yugoslavia. He was the co-mediator (with UN envoy Thorvald Stoltenberg) and principal architect of the 1995 Erdut Agreement that ended the war in Croatia by providing for the peaceful reintegration of Eastern Slavonia.
From 1979 to 1993, he served as senior advisor to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, handling the Foreign Relations authorization legislation and the Near East/South Asia region. His work on Iraqi war crimes against the Kurds was the subject of a 1992 ABC documentary.
Galbraith has a JD from Georgetown University Law Center, an MA in politics and economics from Oxford university, and a BA in history from Harvard University. He is the author of published reports, scholarly articles, and op-eds on Iraq, the Kurds, South Asia security issues, and the Balkans peace processes. During the recent Kosovo conflict, Ambassador Galbraith was a frequent commentator for the major US and British networks, logging more than 150 appearances.
LT. GENERAL ROBERT G. GARD, JR. (USA-RET.)
General Robert Gard is the Senior Military Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and a consultant in the field of international security and education. General Gard had a distinguished career in the United States Army, retiring as a Lieutenant General in 1981. From 1977-1981 he served as President of the National Defense University. From 1975-1977 he was Commanding General of the US Army Military Personnel Center. From 1973-1975 he was Commanding General of Fort Ord, CA and 7th Infantry Division. From 1971-1973 he was Director, Human Resources Development. From 1970-1971 he was a Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to that he served a number of other command and staff positions in the US Army, including Executive Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (1966-68), and service in Vietnam (1968-69), Germany (1962-65), & Korea (1952-54).
Since retiring from the military, General Gard has served as the President of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Director of the Bologna (Italy) Center of the Johns Hopkins University School of International Studies, and as a visiting Professor of International Relations at the American University in Paris, France. General Gard holds a PhD. and a Masters degree from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Science from the US Military Academy in West Point, NY
JEROME GROSSMAN
Jerome Grossman has served as Chairman of Council for a Livable World since 1991 and was executive director and President of both the Council and Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation from 1980 - 1991.
A writer, 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, Inc., a producer of envelopes. Since selling the business, he has focused on his many other pursuits. In 1969, for example, he founded the Vietnam Moratorium Movement. He has been active in many political campaigns and within the Democratic Party, serving as a member of the Democratic National Committee and as chairman of the Robert Drinan for House campaign and participating actively in the 1968 McCarthy for President campaign and the 1972 McGovern for President campaign. He has been active in the nuclear weapons freeze campaign and the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union and was a founder of the Massachusetts Political Action for Peace.
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, and others. He is the author of Relentless Liberal, published by Vantage Press in 1996.
ELISA HARRIS
Elisa Harris is presently a Research Fellow at the Center for International and security Studies at the University of Maryland where she is conducting research on biological non-proliferation and arms control issues, including cooperative approaches to controlling highly dangerous pathogens.
From 1993 - 2001, she served at the Clinton White House National Security Council as Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls. There she coordinated U.S. policy relating to the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons and ballistic missiles, including ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
From 1989 - 1993, she was Senior Research Analyst in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution where she prepared several studies on chemical and biological weapons proliferation and arms control; conducted public outreach and education on arms control issues. She has also worked at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, and for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, where she was Staff Consultant, Subcommittee on Int'l Security & Scientific Affairs.
She received an A.B. from Georgetown University and an M. Phil in International Relations from the University of Oxford, St. Antony's College. She is the author of numerous articles on biological and chemical weapons.
J. BRYAN HEHIR
J. Bryan Hehir is Professor of the Practice in Religion and Society, Harvard Divinity School, and Faculty Associate at Harvard University Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He is also a member of the faculty steering committee for the Divinity School's Center for the Study of Values in Public Life. As of December 18, 1998, Professor Hehir was appointed Chair of the Executive Committee at Harvard Divinity School, essentially filling in as an interim dean. He also serves as Counselor to Catholic Relief Services in Baltimore, Maryland.
From 1973 to 1992, Father Hehir served in Washington at the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops and at Georgetown University. At the Bishops Conference he was Director of the Office of International Affairs (1973-83), Secretary of the Department of Social Development and World Peace (1984-88) and Counselor for Social Policy (1988-92). At Georgetown he served as the Joseph P. Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics in the School of Foreign Service at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. From 1991-92 he served as Associate Vice President for Church and University issues.
Professor Hehir's writing and research engage issues of ethics, foreign policy and international relations as well as Catholic social ethics. Publications include: "Military Intervention and National Sovereignty"; "Expanding Military Intervention: Promise or Peril?"; "Catholicism and Democracy: Conflict, Change and Collaboration"; and "The Just-War Ethic Revisited."
DUDLEY ROBERT HERSCHBACH
Dudley Herschbach is a Harvard Professor of Chemistry and a Nobel Prize winner. He has taught at Harvard as Professor of Chemistry since 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), as a member of the Faculty Council (1980-1983), and as 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 American 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), and the William Walker Prize (1994).
JOHN ISAACS
John Isaacs has served as executive director and president of Council for a Livable World since 1991, headed the Washington office since 1981 and lobbied for the Council since 1978.
Isaacs is one of the most respected and senior leaders of the nation's arms control community, and one of Washington, D.C.'s foremost experts on Congress and national security issues. He has been profiled in both Congressional Quarterly and National Journal. He has authored numerous studies, fact sheets and briefing books on arms control, weapons of mass destruction and military budget issues. He is frequently interviewed for television and radio shows and for newspaper stories.
He founded the Monday Lobby Group, a meeting every Monday of lobby group representatives that has been meeting since 1981, and organized annual retreats and conferences of the community as well as meetings of the directors of the organizations.
Isaacs serves as contributing editor to Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and on the Board of Directors of Americans for Democratic Action, Arms Control Association, the Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers, the Emergency Coalition for U.S. Financial Support of the United Nations, PeacePAC and the Scoville Peace Fellowship.
He writes extensively for Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and Arms Control Today and has published articles in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and many other publications.
Previously Isaacs worked as a legislative assistant for former New York Representative Stephen Solarz (1975-77), as a legislative representative at Americans for Democratic Action (1972-75) and as a Foreign Service Officer stationed in Vietnam working on the pacification program (1969-71). He is a graduate of Dartmouth College (1967) and Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies (1969)
JESSE JAMES
Jesse James is a Senior Associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center, a private, independent nonpartisan foreign and national security policy institution in Washington, DC. He directs the Center's New Nuclear Direction Dialogue, N2D2, project, which combines rigorous research and analysis on nuclear policy issues with sustained engagement of the general public through outreach, dialogue and partnership across the country.
He was executive director of the Center's Committee on Nuclear Policy, a collaborative group of nuclear weapon experts, scholars, scientists, retired military leaders and former national lawmakers dedicated to calling greater attention to post-Cold War nuclear dangers and the need for new policies to address these dangers.
Prior to joining the Stimson Center, he served as a political appointee in the Clinton Administration as Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs in the Bureau of Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of State (1997-98). He also served as Acting Director of the Office of Public Liaison (1998).
James was an editorial writer and columnist for several years at the Dallas Morning News where he wrote primarily on U.S. foreign, defense, and national security policy (1989-1997). He was also a Senior Arms Control Analyst at the Arms Control Association in Washington, D.C. (1986-89).
He received his undergraduate degree from Rice University in Houston, Texas and his graduate degree from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh.
VERA KISTIAKOWSKY
Vera Kistiakowsky is Professor of Physics emerita at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She received her Ph.D. at the University of California-Berkeley in 1952 and did research in experimental nuclear physics there and at Columbia University until 1960. From then until 1986 her research area was experimental particle physics, and then, until she retired in 1994, in observational astrophysics. She has published more than one hundred papers in these fields. Kistiakowsky is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a member of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), and in 1987 was awarded an honorary Sc.D. by her alma mater, Mount Holyoke College. She has been elected to the Councils of the APS and AAAS, and the Senate of PBK, and has served on a number of their committees and boards.
In the late 1960's Kistiakowsky became involved in efforts to improve the situation of women in science and to increase their numbers. In 1969 she and two friends started a Boston area group called WISE (Women in Science and Engineering). In 1970 she organized a petition requesting the American Physical Society (APS) to set up a committee on the status of women in physics. She chaired this committee during 1971 and presented its report and recommendations to the APS Council in 1972. Since then she has served on APS, AAAS, and National Research Council committees and has published articles and lectured on topics related to women in science. She was president of the Association for Women in Science in 1982 and 1983.
Kistiakowsky also worked on arms race issues in the begining of the1970's, but not being willing to take so much time away from her children and her research, decided to focus on questions related to women in science. The sharp escalation of the arms race at the end of the decade made her reevaluate that decision, and she gradually shifted to complete concentration on issues of international security and weapons policy. She has published articles and lectured on these issues, and was named an outstanding woman military expert in 1986 by the Center for Defense Information.
GENE POKORNY, President
Gene Pokorny is 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.
Mr. 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.
In addition to being on the Council for a Livable World's Board of Directors since 1977, Mr. 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.
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.
JOHN C. POLANYI
John Charles Polanyi holds the Polanyi Chair of Chemistry at the University of Toronto, Canada. His research is on the molecular motions in chemical reactions in gases and at surfaces. He is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Canada, of London, and of Edinburgh, also of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Pontifical Academy of Rome.
His awards include the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry the Royal Medal of the Royal Society of London and thirty honorary degrees from six countries. He served on the Prime Minister of Canada's Advisory Board on Science and Technology, as Honorary Advisor to the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Germany, as Board Member of the Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, Canada, and as Foreign Honorary Advisor to the Institute for Molecular Sciences, Japan.
He was the founding Chairman of the Canadian Pugwash Group in 1960, has written over one hundred articles on science policy and on the control of armaments, and has co-edited a book, "The Dangers of Nuclear War".
JANE WALES
Jane Wales assumed the post of President and CEO of the World Affairs Council of Northern California on August 1, 1998. She is the former Associate Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Senior Director of the National Security Council. Prior to her dual appointment in the Clinton Administration, Wales chaired the international programs at the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the W. Alton Jones Foundation and was director of the Project on World Security at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Ms. Wales was formerly chair of the Carnegie Corporation Program on Cooperative Security. Prior to joining the Corporation in 1990, she was director of the Secure Society Program of the W. Alton Jones Foundation, in Charlottesville, Virginia. In the Carter Administration, Wales served as the White House Coordinator of Public Liaison and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under Hodding Carter III (1977-79). During her six year tenure (1982-1987) as Executive Director of Physicians for Social Responsibility, the organization shared in the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1987 and 1988, Ms. Wales directed the International Security Options Project, which developed recommendations for U.S. nuclear weapons policy, under the guidance of Gerard Smith, George Kennan, Robert McNamara and others. As part of that affiliation, Ms. Wales assisted Mr. McNamara in the research and organization of Out of the Cold (Simon & Shuster, 1989).
Ms. Wales has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is a
graduate of Sarah Lawrence College.
GEORGE WALLERSTEIN
George Wallerstein in presently Professor Emeritus, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington. He graduated from Brown University in 1951, received an M.S. from the California Institute of Technology (C.I.T.) in 1954 and a Ph. D. from the same institution in 1958. After a research fellowship at C.I.T., he worked as an Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1965 to 1998, he was a Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, including Chairman from 1965 - 1980). He has also held a number of temporary positions, including as Visiting Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Visiting Member, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics.
His society memberships include International Astronomical Union, American Astronomical Society, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Royal Astronomical Society and American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow).
Wallerstein has served on numerous boards and committees, including Brown University Board of Trustees, Council on Economic Priorities Board of Directors, NAACP Legal Defense Fund Board of Directors, American Astronomical Society Vice President, Human Serve Board of Directors.
Wallerstein is a long-time supporter of Council for a Livable World and Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation projects, including the recently-released study of the costs of national missile defense.