22 March 2000
Text: Panel to Review Energy Dept.'s Nonproliferation Programs in Russia
(Lloyd Cutler, Howard Baker named co-chairmen) (3,050) U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson has appointed a panel to review and assess the Department of Energy's (DOE) nonproliferation programs in Russia and to recommend how those programs could be enhanced. A March 21 DOE press release said former White House counsel Lloyd Cutler and former Senate majority leader Howard Baker will serve as co-chairmen. In addition to Cutler and Baker, panel members are (in alphabetical order): Andrew Athy, Graham Allison, Brian Atwood, Bruce Blair, David Boren, Lynn Davis, Butler Derrick, Susan Eisenhower, Lee Hamilton, Robert Hanfling, Gary Hart, Jim McClure, Sam Nunn, Alan Simpson, David Skaggs, and John Tuck. Secretary Richardson said the members of this group are experts in the field of Russian nonproliferation and national security, and he looks forward to "a hard and fair examination of DOE's nonproliferation programs." The release said the panel will assess a range of topics including the Nuclear Cities Initiative, the Material Protection Control and Accounting Program, the International Nuclear Safety Program, and the Plutonium Disposition Program. Following is the text of the release, which includes biographical information about the panel members: (begin text) U.S. Department of Energy Washington, D.C. March 21, 2000 TASK FORCE CREATED ON NONPROLIFERATION PROGRAMS IN RUSSIA Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson has appointed a blue-ribbon panel to review and assess the Energy Department's nonproliferation programs in Russia and recommend how its nonproliferation efforts can be enhanced. Former White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler and former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker will serve as co-chairmen of the panel. The list of appointees is attached. The task force will assess the Energy Department's ongoing nonproliferation activities with Russia, and will provide policy recommendations on how to support effectively U.S. national security interests. The assessment will include, but not be limited to the following topics: Initiatives for the Proliferation Prevention Program; the Nuclear Cities Initiative; the Material Protection Control and Accounting Program; the Second Line of Defense Program; the HEU Purchase Agreement; the International Nuclear Safety Program; and the Plutonium Disposition Program. The task force held its first meeting on March 13. During that meeting, Under Secretary of Energy Ernest J. Moniz presented an overview of the department's nonproliferation efforts in Russia. Rose Gottemoeller, Acting Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, provided a briefing on reducing vulnerability; Laura Holgate, Assistant Deputy Administrator for Fissile Material Disposition, talked about the plutonium disposition agreement; Terry Lash, Assistant Deputy Administrator for International Nuclear Safety and Cooperation, discussed nuclear safety and cooperation; Leonard Spector, Assistant Deputy Administrator for Arms Control and Nonproliferation, spoke about Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention and Nuclear Cities Initiative; and Maureen McCarthy, science advisor to the Under Secretary, addressed the proposed proliferation-resistant reactor technology joint research and development. "I look forward to a hard and fair examination of DOE's nonproliferation programs. The distinguished group of members selected to serve on this task force are experts in the field of Russian nonproliferation and national security," said Secretary Richardson. "Their unique leadership skills will provide balanced and timely advice in helping to fulfill the department's mission." A brief biographical sketch of each task force member follows: Lloyd Cutler is one of the founding partners of Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, and maintains an active practice in several fields that include international arbitration and dispute resolution, constitutional law, appellate advocacy and public policy advice. Cutler has served as Counsel to Presidents Clinton and Carter. Mr. Cutler served as senior consultant on the President's Commission on Strategic Forces (the Scowcroft Commission) from 1983 to 1984. From 1979 to 1980, he served as Special Counsel to the President on Ratification of the SALT II Treaty and from 1977 to 1979, served as the President's Special Representative for Maritime Resource and Boundary Negotiations with Canada. Mr. Cutler received his bachelor of arts and bachelor of law degrees from Yale University and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1983. Senator Howard Baker, Jr. has returned to private life and the practice of law after serving in the United States Senate from 1967 to 1985, and as President Reagan's chief of staff from February 1987 until July 1988. Senator Baker's career as a lawyer began in 1949, when he joined his father, the late Congressman Howard Baker, in a law practice founded by his grandfather. He returned to that practice after leaving the Senate in 1985 and then again after leaving the White House in 1988. Baker was a candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 1980. Senator Baker was a United Nations delegate in 1976 and served on the President's Foreign Intelligence Board from 1985 to 1987 and from 1988 to 1990. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves on the board of the Forum for International Policy, and is an International Councilor for the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Baker resides in his birthplace, Huntsville, Tennessee. Andrew Athy, Jr. is a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm of O'Neill, Athy and Casey. In January 1999, Secretary Richardson named Athy the chairman of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board. Athy recently served on the four-person search committee for the new Under Secretary of the National Nuclear Security Administration. From 1978 to 1981, he served as counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power; from 1976 to 1978, he was an attorney in the Office of the General Counsel of the Federal Election Commission; and from 1973 to 1975, Athy was Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Mr. Athy received an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center. Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School. From January 1993 until March 1994, he served as assistant secretary of defense for policy and plans, formulating Department of Defense strategy and policy toward Russia, Ukraine and the other states of the former Soviet Union. As dean of the Kennedy School from 1977 to 1989, he led the effort to create a major professional school of government. His teaching and research focuses on American foreign policy, defense, U.S.-Soviet relations, and the political economy of transitions to economic and political democracy. Allison has served as special advisor to Secretaries of Defense Weinberger, Carlucci, Cheney, Aspin and Perry; director of the Council of Foreign Relations; and consultant to various departments of government. Brian Atwood is the Executive Vice President of Citizens Energy Corporation and Director of Citizens International. From 1993 to 1999, Mr. Atwood served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, where he served as chairman of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and was Undersecretary of State for Management in 1993. Before that, Atwood served as a Foreign Service Officer, staff member for Senator Thomas Eagleton, Executive Director of the Democratic Senatorial Congressional Committee, and President of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs from 1986 to 1993. Mr. Atwood received a B.A. from Boston University and has completed graduate work at American University, where he later received an honorary doctorate. Bruce Blair is an expert on the security policies of the United States and the former Soviet Union, specializing in nuclear forces and command-control systems, and was recently named President of the Center for Defense Intelligence. Prior to that, Blair spent 13 years at the Brookings Institution, where he was a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program. In 1970, he received a B.S. in communications from the University of Illinois. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1970 to 1974, as a Minuteman ICBM launch control officer and support officer for the Strategic Air Command's Airborne Command Post. Blair earned a master's degree in management sciences in 1977, and a doctorate in operations research in 1984, both from Yale University. He has studied extensively the Russian military-industrial economy, and early in his career was a project director at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. David Boren is the President of the University of Oklahoma. From 1974 to 1978, he was Governor of Oklahoma and from 1979 to 1994, he served in the U.S. Senate from Oklahoma. Before he became Governor, Senator Boren served in the Oklahoma Legislature. During his time in the U.S. Senate, Boren served on the Senate Finance and Agriculture Committees and was the longest-serving chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Senator Boren also chaired the special 1992 to 1993 Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress, which produced proposals to make Congress more efficient and responsive by streamlining bureaucracy, reducing staff sizes, and reforming procedures to end legislative gridlock. In 1993, Boren received the Henry Yost Award as Education Advocate of the Year. Senator Boren holds degrees from Yale University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Lynn Davis is currently a Senior Fellow at the Rand Corporation. She served on the review boards that investigated the embassy bombings in East Africa and is on the Study Group of the Commission on National Security/21st Century. From 1993 to 1997, Davis was Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs. She played a central role in the negotiations that produced NATO's expansion, the guidelines for the START III Treaty, the nonproliferation agreement with the Russians and Chinese on missile transfers and conventional arms, and the establishment of the Wassenaar Arrangement, a multilateral regime that coordinates conventional arms sales policies. Prior to joining the State Department, Dr. Davis was Vice President and Director of the Arroyo Center at RAND. She also served on the staffs of the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council, and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. She was Director of Studies at the National War College and Columbia University. She has a doctorate in Political Science from Columbia University. Butler Derrick is a partner in the law firm of Powell, Goldstein, Frazer and Murphy. From 1974 to 1994, Congressman Derrick represented the Third District of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives. During that time, Mr. Derrick served as Vice Chairman of the House Rules Committee and Chief Deputy Majority Whip. He was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1969 to 1974. He was a principal organizer of the South Carolina Water Resources Commission and was Vice Chairman of the South Carolina Nuclear Energy Committee. Derrick received his law degree from the University of Georgia. Susan Eisenhower is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Nixon Center and is also chairman of the Center for Political and Strategic Studies based at the University of Maryland. She has concentrated almost 14 years of her career on U.S.-Soviet and then U.S.-Russian relations, while placing special emphasis on the changing political, economic and social development in the former Soviet Union. In the mid-1980s, Eisenhower started traveling to the Soviet Union, initially as co-chairman of the first open and televised bilateral policy debate in Soviet history. In 1998, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences Standing Committee on International Security and Arms Control. During the fall of 1998, Eisenhower spent the fall semester at Harvard as a visiting fellow at the Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics. In 1998, she was also appointed to the National Advisory Council of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Lee Hamilton is the director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Prior to joining the Wilson Center, Congressman Hamilton represented southern Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1965 to 1999. He served as Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on International Relations, the Joint Economic Committee, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress, as well as serving as Chairman of the October Surprise Task Force and the Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran. In addition to his duties with the Wilson Center, Mr. Hamilton serves on numerous panels and commissions including the Secretary of Defense's National Security Study Group and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Economic Intelligence Advisory Panel. Hamilton attended Goethe University (Frankfurt, Germany) and holds degrees from Depauw University and Indiana University School of Law. Robert Hanfling is president of Robert I. Hanfling Associates and a senior advisor at Putnam, Hayes & Bartlett Inc., an international management and economic consulting firm. He served as chairman of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board from 1995 to 1997. He served as Deputy Under Secretary of Energy from 1979 to 1980. He received a bachelor's degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a MBA with a specialization in international trade from the City University of New York. Gary Hart serves as counsel in the Denver office of Coudert Brothers, a multinational law firm. Senator Hart represented the state of Colorado in the United States Senate from 1975 to 1987 and was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 1984. During his 12 years in the Senate, he served on the Armed Services, Budget and Environmental Committees. He was also a congressional advisor to the SALT II talks in Geneva and held lengthy discussions in Moscow with General Secretary Gorbachev and Foreign Minister Shevardnadze on arms control, human rights and other international issues. Hart is a member of the Board of Directors of the Russian-American Enterprise Fund, which was created by Congress in 1993. In 1996, Senator Hart was McCallum Memorial Lecturer at Oxford and in 1998 was Regents Lecturer at the University of California. He is currently a member of the Defense Policy Board and a member of the Commission on U.S. National Security in the 21st Century. Senator Hart is a graduate of the Yale Law School, the Yale Divinity School and Southern Nazarene University. Jim McClure is co-founder of the law firm McClure, Gerard & Neuenschwander Inc. (MGN). Prior to that, he served for 24 years as a member of Congress from Idaho, of which the last 18 years was a member of the United States Senate. Senator McClure was chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, the Senate Steering Committee and the Senate Republican Conference. Mr. McClure is widely recognized for his expertise on environmental, energy and natural resource matters including transportation, nuclear energy, natural gas, oil and electricity issues. McClure played a major role in negotiating an agreement between the state of Idaho, the Department of Energy and the U.S. Navy regarding shipment and storage of nuclear waste material to the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory. He also serves on a number of corporate boards, as well as several volunteer boards. Senator McClure is a graduate of the University of Idaho College of Law. Sam Nunn is a senior partner in the Atlanta law firm of King & Spalding, where he focuses his practice on international and corporate matters. From 1972 to 1996, he served as a U.S. Senator from Georgia. During his tenure in the Senate, Senator Nunn served as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He also served on the Intelligence and Small Business Committees. His legislative achievements include the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, also known as the Nunn-Lugar program, which provides incentives for the former Soviet Republics to dismantle and safely handle their nuclear arsenals. Senator Nunn also drafted the landmark Department of Defense Reorganization Act with the late Senator Barry Goldwater. He has continued his service in the public policy arena as a distinguished professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology, and as chairman of the board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He also serves as co-chairman of The Concord Coalition, a grassroots organization formed to educate the public on our nation's fiscal challenges. Alan Simpson is the Director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. From 1979 to 1997, Senator Simpson served as United States Senator from Wyoming. While in the Senate, he was Assistant Majority Leader for 10 years. Prior to his time in the Senate, Simpson served for 13 years in Wyoming's legislature. Mr. Simpson serves on numerous boards and commissions. David Skaggs is the Executive Director of the Democracy & Citizenship Program at the Aspen Institute, and is counsel to the Washington, D.C.-based law firm of Hogan & Hartson. Congressman Skaggs also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado. Skaggs represented the Second District of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1987 to 1999. During Mr. Skaggs' last six years in Congress, he was a member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where he devoted particular attention to classification and information security issues. He was a founding co-chairman of the House Bipartisan Retreat and the Constitutional Forum. Prior to serving in elected office, Mr. Skaggs practiced law in Boulder, Colorado. He was chief of staff to then Congressman Timothy Wirth from 1974 to 1977. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1963 to 1965; and was a major in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves from 1965 to 1968. In addition to current duties, Mr. Skaggs serves on a number of boards and committees. He recently completed work as a member of the Department of State's Overseas Presence Advisory Panel. John Tuck is a Senior Policy Advisor at Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell. From February 1989 to 1992, Tuck served as the former Under Secretary of Energy. Prior to working at the Energy Department, he served in several positions at the White House including Assistant to the President. From 1981 to 1986, Tuck worked in the U.S. Senate as Assistant Secretary for the Majority, and also held a number of other positions on Capitol Hill including Chief of the Minority Floor Information Services from 1977 to 1980. Mr. Tuck was commissioned in the U.S. Navy from 1967 to 1973 and served as a Captain in the Naval Reserve until he retired in 1994. He holds a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University. (end text) (Distributed by the Office of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State. Web site: usinfo.state.gov)
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