Combating Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

Appendix B: Commission Members and StaffCommissionersJohn M. Deutch, Chairman of the Commission, is an Institute Professor at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology. He served as Director of Central Intelligence fromMay 1995 to December 1996. He previously served as Deputy Secretary of Defense(1994-95) and Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology (1993-94).From 1979 to 1980 he served as Under Secretary of the Department of Energy.Senator Arlen Specter, Vice Chairman of the Commission, is the author of the legislationthat created the Commission. As Pennsylvania’s senior Senator, he chairs the SenateVeterans Affairs Committee and the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health andHuman Services, and Education. He is also a member of the Judiciary and GovernmentalAffairs Committees. In the 104th Congress, he chaired the Senate Select Committee onIntelligence.Anthony C. Beilenson of California served twenty years in the U.S. House ofRepresentatives. He chaired the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence fortwo years and promoted bipartisan cooperation on that committee. He was also aninfluential member of the House Rules Committee for nearly twenty years, active onbudget, intelligence, and House floor issues.Stephen A. Cambone 25 is Director of Research at the Institute for National StrategicStudies of the National Defense University. He recently served as staff director of theCommission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States. From 1993 to 1998he was Senior Fellow in Political-Military Studies at the Center for Strategic andInternational Studies. He was previously Director of Strategic Defense Policy in the Officeof the Secretary of Defense (1990-93).M.D.B. Carlisle was Chief of Staff to Senator Thad Cochran from 1991 to 1997. Shepreviously served as Vice President for Government Relations at The Heritage Foundation(1989-90) and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs (1986-89).Henry F. Cooper is Chairman of Applied Research Associates, Inc., Chairman of HighFrontier, and a private consultant. He previously served as Director of the StrategicDefense Initiative Organization, chief negotiator at the Geneva Defense and Space Talkswith the Soviet Union, Assistant Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency,Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, and Scientific Advisor to the Air ForceWeapons Laboratory.J. James Exon of Nebraska retired from the U.S. Senate in 1997 after serving three terms.He was a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and an influential voice inCongress on matters regarding the military, particularly strategic issues. He also served25Nominated103