Officers
Jules Zacher – Chair
Attorney
Vacant – Vice Chair
Robert K. Musil – Treasurer
President and CEO, Rachel Carson Council
Board of Directors
Rob Barber
Attorney; Former Ambassador to Iceland
Benjamin Chang
Communications Executive
Joseph Cirincione
National Security Analyst, Author
Neta C. Crawford
Professor, Boston University
Rob Goldston
Professor, Princeton University
Ann Liston
Media Consultant; Co-founding partner, AL Media
Rep. Harold P. Naughton, Jr. (Hank)
Partner, Napoli Shkolnik PLLC; Former Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Philip Schrag
Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Leonor Tomero
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy
Mark Udall
Former Senator, Colorado
Daniel Wirls
Professor, University of California at Santa Cruz
National Advisory Board
Alice Day
Sociologist
Gary Hart
Former U.S. Senator
Lawrence Hess
Businessman
John Isaacs
Senior Fellow
John H. Johns
Brigadier General, USA (Ret.)
Col. Richard Klass
US Air Force (Ret.)
Matthew Meselson
Harvard University
Richard Schiff
Actor
Biographies
Jules Zacher
Jules Zacher has had a lifelong interest in national security issues, with a particular focus on the abolition of nuclear weapons. Towards that end, he has litigated numerous FOIA and FACA cases. Two memorable cases include obtaining documents regarding the President’s inability to communicate with 50 warheads at an ICBM missile base, as well as documents regarding WMD’s in the runup to the war in Iraq. He is currently the Chairman of the Council for a Livable World, on the Executive Board of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg Public Policy Center, a Director of the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, and founder of Speaking Truth to Power, an organization devoted to obtaining documents dealing with nuclear weapons.
Jules Zacher is also an experienced litigator representing persons in federal and state courts who have contracted Legionnaires’ disease. He has written extensively about how Legionnaires’ disease can be contracted, means to prevent the disease, and the legal implications of not doing so. He began his career with one of the pre-eminent plaintiff’s firms in the country, and then formed his own firm, where he currently practices in Philadelphia. Mr. Zacher took time off from practicing law by creating and operating a software firm headquartered in Paris, with the intended market being East Europe. He attended University of Pittsburgh for his undergraduate degree, Temple University for a Master of Arts in Economics, and Temple University for his Juris Doctor degree. He lives with his wife in Philadelphia and is an avid court tennis player.
Rob Barber
Rob Barber served as United States Ambassador to Iceland from January 2015 to January 2017. Prior to his ambassadorship, Rob was a partner for 30 years at the Boston firm Looney & Grossman LLP. Earlier in his legal career, Rob spent four years as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office. Outside the practice of law, Rob has been an active volunteer and fundraiser for many political campaigns, including the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama. He has also served as an officer, trustee, or director of a number of charitable organizations.
Benjamin Chang
Ben Chang currently serves as the Vice President for Communications and spokesperson for Columbia University. He joined Columbia from Princeton University, where he served as Deputy Vice President for Communications and University Spokesperson.
For almost two decades, Ben served a U.S. Foreign Service Officer, with postings overseas and domestically, including as the Director for Press and Communications in the White House National Security Council under both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, and as Deputy Spokesman for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. He also served as the Associate Administrator for Communications and Public Liaison at the Small Business Administration. Before entering higher education, Ben was a Managing Director in the Public Affairs and Crisis Practice of global public relations firm Burson-Marsteller and Vice President for Events at the Los Angeles Times.
Alongside his service on the CLW Board, Ben is as a member of the board of directors of Global Ties U.S., the country’s largest and longest serving citizen diplomacy network supporting international exchange across the United States. Ben also sits on the Communications Advisory Board for the American Talent Initiative, a network of colleges and universities partnering with philanthropy and research communities to expand access and opportunity for low- and moderate-income students, and co-chair emeritus of the Rising Leaders Council of the Meridian International Center, a nonprofit, nonpartisan diplomacy center that connects leaders through global leadership, collaboration, and culture to drive solutions for global challenges.
Ben is a graduate of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Joseph Cirincione
Joseph Cirincione is a national security analyst and author with over 35 years of experience in Washington, D.C. He is a Distinguished Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft in Washington and is the author or editor of seven books, including Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World before It Is Too Late and Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons. He served previously as president of Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation, vice president for national security at the Center for American Progress, director for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a senior fellow at the Stimson Center, among other positions. He worked for over nine years on the professional staff of the Armed Services Committee and the Government Operations Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. He is adjunct faculty at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He appears frequently on television, radio and in the media and is the author of over eight hundred articles and reports on defense and national security.
Neta Crawford
Neta Crawford is a Professor of Political Science at Boston University where she teaches international relations and the ethics of war. She is also co-director of the Costs of War Project, based at Brown University. In addition, she currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Political Philosophy and the journal International Relations. She has also served on the editorial board of the American Political Science Review. Her most recent books include Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America’s Post-9/11 Wars and Neta C. Crawford, Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, and Humanitarian Intervention. She has published four dozen peer-reviewed book and journal articles. Crawford has a life-long interest in nuclear weapons and arms control. Prior to becoming an academic, Crawford worked on the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign and wrote about arms control negotiations for the Arms Control Reporter based at the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies.
Crawford’s BA, “The War System and Alternatives to Militarism,” is from Brown University. Her Ph.D is from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has held post-doctoral appointments at the University of Southern California, Brown, and Harvard, where she was the Bunting Institute Peace Fellow.
Rob Goldston
Rob Goldston is a professor in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. His areas of research interest are non-proliferation and arms control, as well as the physics of fusion energy. He was director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory 1997 – 2009, and served as acting director of Princeton’s Program on Science and Global Security in Spring 2015. He teaches an advanced undergraduate course entitled, “The Science of Nuclear Energy: Fission and Fusion,” and is developing a textbook based on it for Cambridge University Press. The course and book include considerable material on nuclear proliferation. Rob has written on the proliferation risks associated with nuclear energy, both fission and fusion. He co-developed the “Zero-Knowledge Protocol” for warhead verification, in which an inspector can gain confidence that an object designated for dismantlement is a true nuclear warhead, while gaining no knowledge about its composition or design. He is currently engaged in experimental validation of this concept. He has written on the proliferation risks associated with large gas centrifuge uranium enrichment plants, and is developing new safeguards technologies to address these risks. He was a lead author on the 2015 “29 Scientists” letter to President Obama, strongly supporting the Iran deal, and on a recent letter to Congressional leaders, signed by over 90 scientists, providing strong justification for why the U.S. should remain in the deal.
Professor Goldston gained experience working with Congress during his 12-year tenure as Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. He chaired the American Physical Society Physics Policy Committee 2007-2009. He won the American Physical Society “Excellence in Plasma Physics” award in 1988, the Fusion Power Associates Leadership Award in 2001, and was named a “Leading Global Thinker” by Foreign Policy Magazine in 2014. He won the Nuclear Fusion “Most Outstanding Paper” prize for 2012.
Ann Liston
Ann Liston is the co-founding partner of AL Media, a media and strategic communications consulting firm recognized nationally for its award-winning creative and breakthrough victories. Under Ann’s leadership, AL Media has taken on some of the highest profile, against-the-odds challenges in electoral, legislative and public affairs campaigns…and won.
Along with serving on the senior strategy team for President Obama’s re-election, Ann’s firm has helped elect 2 Presidents of the United States, 11 U.S. Senators, 35 members of Congress, 18 statewide officeholders, and over 100 state and local elected officials. Ann’s firm was recognized by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow for producing “the first grand-slam, out of the park, absolutely perfect Democratic campaign ad of the entire year.” AL Media has won 28 Pollies from the American Association of Political Consultants, 17 Reeds for Excellence in Political Campaigns, including Best Ad of the Year, 11 Tellys, and numerous other awards.
Ann has over 20 years of experience consulting on and managing top-level campaigns. Before becoming a partner at AL Media, she served in senior positions at EMILY’s List, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), the National Democratic Convention-Los Angeles, the National Democratic Institute (NDI), and the Washington, D.C. media firm, GMMB. A seasoned trainer, Ann has worked with political leaders and activists throughout the United States, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Northern Ireland, Indonesia, and Hong Kong. She also has been a regular lecturer for Harvard University’s Women & Public Policy program.
Ann got her start in campaign management and government relations as a press secretary for the Illinois Senate. Her first job was as a precinct captain in Chicago’s 43rd Ward. She is committed to helping women and girls reach positions of power and leadership and serves on the board of Girls in the Game. Ann is a graduate of Loyola University-Chicago.
Robert K. Musil
Robert K. Musil, PhD, MPH, is the President and CEO of the Rachel Carson Council (RCC), the legacy organization envisioned by Rachel Carson and founded in 1965 after her death by her closest friends and colleagues. The RCC promotes the environmental health issues and ethics espoused by Carson including the dangers posed by nuclear weapons, power, and wastes. Musil is also a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor with the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University where he teaches environmental and national security politics. Dr. Musil was Executive Director and CEO of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning 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. He is a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow and frequent lecturer on college campuses.
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 Hope for a Heated Planet: How Americans Are Fighting Global Climate Change and Building a Better Future (Rutgers University Press, 2009) and Rachel Carson and Her Sisters: Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America’s Environment (Rutgers, 2014).
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.
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 2-3,000,000 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.
Representative Harold P. Naughton, Jr. (Hank)
Harold P. Naughton, Jr. (Hank) is a Partner at Napoli Shkolnik PLLC, where he is in charge of the Public Client Practice Group. He also serves as the Executive Director of Napoli’s Veterans Advocacy Project.
From 2011 to 2017, he served as a member of the State Department’s International Security Advisory Board (ISAB), which provides the Department with independent insight and advice on all aspects of arms control, disarmament, international security, security capacity and related aspects of public diplomacy.
Rep. Naughton, a Commissioned Officer in the U.S. Army Reserve, is a veteran of both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Major Naughton’s military awards include the Combat Action Badge, Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Afghan Campaign Medal with Campaign Star, Iraq Campaign Medal with Campaign Star, Joint Forces Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal (2nd Award), Army Achievement Medal, Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal (2nd Award), National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, NATO Medal, Army Service Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon, Armed Forces Reserve Medal with M/Device, Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, Presidential Unit Citation (Iraq), Valorous Unit Award (Afghanistan), Joint Meritorious Unit Award (Afghanistan).
From 1995 to 2021, Rep. Naughton served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as the State Representative for Massachusetts’ 12th Worcester District. He served for ten years as House Chair of the Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security. Prior to that, he served as Chair of the Committee on Veterans in Public Affairs.
Rep. Naughton holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts, and earned his Juris Doctor from Suffolk University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts. During his time at Suffolk, he attended Notre Dame Law School in London, England studying International Human Rights, European Law and Soviet Law. Rep. Naughton began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in Worcester County serving from 1992 to 1995. From 1995 to the present, Hank has practiced law in Massachusetts State and several levels of Federal Courts. He currently serves in the US Army Reserve with the 443rd Civil Affairs Battalion in Newport, Rhode Island.
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.
Leonor Tomero
Leonor Tomero is a leading expert on nuclear deterrence, national security space and missile defense, including applying innovative technologies and concepts for strategic deterrence. She currently serves as a commissioner on the congressional Commission on Strategic Posture of the United States. In 2021, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy where she was responsible for the United States’ nuclear deterrence policy. Prior to this role, she served for over a decade as Counsel and Strategic Forces Subcommittee Staff Lead on the House Armed Services Committee covering strategic forces issues, including national security space and establishment of the US Space Force, nuclear weapons, nuclear non-proliferation, nuclear clean-up, missile defense and strategic stability issues. Before joining the Committee staff, she was Director of Nuclear Non-Proliferation at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and as President of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security. She holds a B.A. from Cornell University, an M.A. in security studies from Georgetown University and a J.D., cum laude, from American University.
Mark Udall
Mark Udall served as a U.S. Senator from Colorado from 2009 until 2015. He previously represented Colorado’s 2nd District in the US House from 1999-2009. Shortly after 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq (which Udall opposed) Udall joined the House Armed Services Committee. He advocated for a tough but smart set of policy approaches to meet the 21st century challenges of terrorism, climate change, pandemics, cyber attacks, and unsecured chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. Once elected to the Senate he chaired the Armed Services sub Committee on Strategic Forces. The Strategic Forces subcommittee portfolio includes our nuclear and strategic forces, arms control and non proliferation policies, missile defense, and space and satellite activities.
Udall also was a member of the Intelligence Committee from 2011-15. He focused his oversight responsibilities on 1) overseeing and questioning the NSA’s electronic surveillance activities, especially of American citizens, and 2) the use and effectiveness of drone strikes. And Udall played a crucial role in ensuring the Senate’s six-year investigation and subsequent report of the CIA’s unconstitutional and illegal use of torture post-9/11 was released to the public. The 2019 Hollywood movie, The Report, highlights Udall’s tenacious commitment to the Bill of Rights and the Senate’s constitutional responsibilities.
Daniel Wirls
Daniel Wirls is a Professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz. During the early years of the Reagan presidency Wirls worked at Council for a Livable World before going to graduate school.
He has written five books including, The Senate: From White Supremacy to Government Gridlock (2021); Irrational Security; The Politics of Defense from Reagan to Obama (2010), The Invention of the United States Senate (2004), and Buildup; The Politics of Defense in the Reagan Era (1992). As well, Wirls has published articles and commentaries on U.S. nuclear and military policy.
Wirls received his B.A. in Political Science from Haverford College. He holds a M.A. and Ph.D from the Department of Government at Cornell University.
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.
Senator Gary Hart
Sen. Gary Hart served as chairman of Council for a Livable World from 2006-2009. He currently is a member of the organization’s National Advisory Board.
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.
Lawrence Hess
Lawrence Hess, born 1940, first became interested in war and peace issues – and politics in general – as the Vietnam War heated up in 1964-5, and he has been a stalwart, anti-war progressive ever since.
In the 1960’s Hess was active in the Young Democrats and the ACLU. Both he and his wife Suzanne have been active supporters of the San Diego Peace Resource Center since its inception in 1980, and for several years, he was on the board of directors. Hess is currently on the board of directors of Progressive Majority, and he heads Lehbros Limited, a real estate management firm that owns and operates apartment communities.
He and Suzanne have a married daughter who is a librarian, an unmarried son who is an artist, and an infant grandchild. They married in 1969 and have lived in San Diego since 1975.
John Isaacs
John Isaacs is a Senior Fellow at Council for a Livable World and 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.
Dr. John H. 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.
Col. Richard Klass
Colonel Richard Klass. USAF (ret.) is a graduate of the US Air Force Academy, the National War College and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He flew over 200 combat missions in Vietnam and served in the Executive Office of the President as a White House Fellow. His awards include the Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross and Purple Heart.
Matthew Meselson
Matthew Meselson is Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government. He received the Ph.D. in chemistry and physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1957 and was an Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry at CalTech until he joined the Harvard faculty in 1960, where he teaches and conducts research in molecular genetics.
Since 1963 Dr. Meselson has been interested in chemical and biological defense and arms control and has served as a member of the Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board to the Secretary of State and as a consultant on CBW matters to various U.S. government agencies. He is co-director of the Harvard-Sussex Program on Chemical and Biological Weapons and co-editor of its quarterly journal, the Chemical Weapons Convention Bulletin. Dr. Meselson is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Institute of Medicine, the Academia Sanctae Clarae (Genoa), the Academie des Sciences (Paris), the Royal Society (London), and the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Richard Schiff
Actor Richard Schiff is a 2008 recipient of Council for a Livable World’s Father Robert F. Drinan National Peace and Human Rights Award. He was an outspoken critic of the War in Iraq and a long-time champion of the anti-war movement.
Mr. Schiff is a regular contributor to the London-based Independent on American politics. He has reported and commented for the BBC for both radio and television and writes for the widely-known Huffington Post.
Mr. Schiff has acted in over 50 movies, numerous television programs, and appears on stage in London, New York, and LA. He is best known for his Emmy winning performance as Toby Zeigler, White House Communications Director, on The West Wing.