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:: Dr. William Van Cleave ::

Dr. Van Cleave was a professor of International Relations for twenty years at the University of Southern California, and a Senior Research Fellow with the Hoover Institute, Stanford University. Earlier in his career, he was a member of the first American delegation to the SALT talks, and the “B Team” on national intelligence. He served as Director of the Defense Department transition from the Carter to the Reagan Administrations, and has testified before Congress on every major U.S.-U.S.S.R. arms control treaty since SALT I in 1972. He is the author of numerous publications on strategic defense

Dr. Van Cleave has also worked in various capacities which include: Defense and Strategic Analyst, Strategic Studies Center, Stanford Research Institute, Stanford University; Faculty, University of Southern California (Full Professor from 1976); Consultant to Office of Secretary of Defense, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the Department of Energy, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, the U.S. Army, and the U.S. Air Force; Resident consultant to the RAND Corporation and to the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, Atomic Energy; Chairman, Strategic Alternatives Team; Visiting Professor National Security Affairs, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School; Member Executive Panel, Board of Directors, Committee on the Present Danger, Washington, D.C.; Visiting Professor National Security Affairs, U.S. Army Advanced Russian Institute, Garmisch, Germany. Most recently, Dr. Van Cleave co-chaired The Independent Working Group on Missile Defense, the Space Relationship, and the Twenty-First Century.

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	:: Dr. William Van Cleave :: Dr. Van Cleave was a professor of International Relations for twenty years at the University of Southern California, and a Senior Research Fellow with the Hoover Institute, Stanford University. Earlier in his career, he was a member of the first American delegation to the SALT talks, and the “B Team” on national intelligence. He served as Director of the Defense Department transition from the Carter to the Reagan Administrations, and has testified before Congress on every major U.S.-U.S.S.R. arms control treaty since SALT I in 1972. He is the author of numerous publications on strategic defense Dr. Van Cleave has also worked in various capacities which include: Defense and Strategic Analyst, Strategic Studies Center, Stanford Research Institute, Stanford University; Faculty, University of Southern California (Full Professor from 1976); Consultant to Office of Secretary of Defense, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the Department of Energy, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, the U.S. Army, and the U.S. Air Force; Resident consultant to the RAND Corporation and to the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, Atomic Energy; Chairman, Strategic Alternatives Team; Visiting Professor National Security Affairs, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School; Member Executive Panel, Board of Directors, Committee on the Present Danger, Washington, D.C.; Visiting Professor National Security Affairs, U.S. Army Advanced Russian Institute, Garmisch, Germany. Most recently, Dr. Van Cleave co-chaired The Independent Working Group on Missile Defense, the Space Relationship, and the Twenty-First Century.
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