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:: Dr. Kerry Kartchner :: Dr. Kartchner is Senior Advisor for Strategic Planning in the Office of Strategic Planning and Outreach, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of State. He recently completed a two year detail to the Advanced Systems and Concepts Office of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, where he was Chief of the Division of Strategy and Policy Studies. Prior to that assignment, he was Senior Advisor for Missile Defense Policy in the Bureau of Arms Control, U.S. Department of State. His current duties include advanced planning, analysis, and outreach initiatives on policies related to deterrence, weapons of mass destruction, strategic arms control, and nonproliferation. With over twenty years experience in the field of national security affairs, with particular emphasis on nuclear weapons policy and arms control, Dr. Kartchner has served as the Senior State Department Representative to the Standing Consultative Commission (for the ABM Treaty), and to the Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission (for the START Treaty). While serving on the U.S. delegation to the Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission, he was chairman and chief U.S. spokesman for the Inspection Protocol Working Group and the Space Launch Issues Working Group. Dr. Kartchner has been the recipient of a Meritorious Honor Award (1999) and a Hubert H. Humphrey Arms Control Fellowship (1989), both from the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He is the author of a book on the history of the START negotiations titled Negotiating START: Strategic Arms Reduction Talks and the Quest for Strategic Stability, (Transaction Books, 1992), as well as a contributor to other journals and edited collections. His MA and Ph.D. are from the University of Southern California (1984 and 1987). His B.A. in International Relations is from Brigham Young University (1981).
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