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UCLA Chancellor and national security expert, Albert Carnesale,
reviews the U.S. national security agenda in a post-9/11
environment. Prof. Carnesale offers his views on Russia's "loose
nukes", chemical and biological weapons, national missile defense,
and the US's war on terrorism.
Trained as a nuclear engineer, Prof. Carnesale has consulted
regularly for many U.S. government agencies on foreign and defense
policy, and he has participated in high-level international
negotiations, including the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
with the Soviet Union. He has co-authored six books and more than 50
scholarly articles.
Before becoming UCLA chancellor in 1997, Carnesale was at Harvard
University for 23 years. He was professor at the John F. Kennedy
School of Government and served as the school's dean from 1991 to
1995. He became provost of Harvard in 1994.
Recorded 2/28/02
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