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Panel to Review U.S. Strategic Policies
The House and Senate Armed Services committees have nominated members for a bipartisan commission set to review the roles of nonproliferation programs, missile defenses and nuclear weapons in the “Our committee worked together in a bipartisan way to authorize this commission because we believe it will help promote a bipartisan consensus on strategic weapons issues, including nuclear weapons policy,” said House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) in a press release. Each congressional committee designated six people for the commission. The House panel nominated Harry Cartland, former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicist; John Foster, director emeritus of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Lee Hamilton, former U.S. lawmaker and Sept. 11 commission vice chairman; Keith Payne, chief executive officer and president of the National Institute for Public Policy; William Perry, former U.S. defense secretary; and Ellen Williams, a professor at the University of Maryland. Meanwhile, the Senate Armed Services Committee nominated John Glenn, former U.S. senator and NASA astronaut; Morton Halperin, former deputy assistant defense secretary; Fred Ikle, former director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; James Schlesinger, former head of the U.S. Energy and Defense departments; Bruce Tarter, former director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; and former CIA Director James Woolsey. Perry and Schlesinger would lead the commission as, respectively, chairman and vice chairman. The panel is expected to deliver recommendations to U.S. President George W. Bush by Dec. 1 (U.S. House Armed Services Committee release, March 19).
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