WMD Policy/Nonproliferation Czar – Gary Samore

WMD Policy/Nonproliferation Czar – Gary Samore

Title: White House Coordinator for Weapons of Mass Destruction, Security and Arms Control

Salary: unknown

Reports to: National Security Advisor Gen. James L. Jones

Appointed: January 2009

Department or agency that might have handled similar issues: NSC; Defense; State

• Will coordinate issues related to weapons of mass destruction across the government. His portfolio includes proliferation, nuclear and conventional arms control, threat reduction, and terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction.

• Position sits within the National Security Council.

• Is a veteran arms control negotiator.

• B.A. in sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his PhD in government from Harvard University in 1984.

• After brief stints with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the RAND Corporation, joined the State Department during the Reagan administration in 1987. Held several positions there, including director of the Office of Regional Non-proliferation Affairs; special assistant to the Ambassador-at-Large for Non-proliferation and Nuclear Energy Policy; and deputy to Ambassador-at-Large for Korean Affairs Robert Gallucci. Helped to negotiate the 1994 U.S.-North Korea Framework Treaty

• Joined the Clinton administration’s National Security Council in 1995 as an adviser on nonproliferation. Coordinated U.S. policy on nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.

• Was Director, Council on Foreign Relations (2006 to 2009); Vice President for Global Security and Sustainability, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (2005); Researcher, International Institute of Strategic Studies (2001 to 2005)

(SOURCE: List of Obama Czars by Glenn Beck
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Former US Communist.

Wants US to destroy all WMD unilaterally as a show of good faith.

? Has no other "policy".