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Newell Highsmith
Newell Highsmith is an assistant legal adviser on nuclear non-proliferation for the United States State Department.
David Koplow
David Koplow has worked, taught, and written in the areas of public international law and national security law for many years.
He served as Attorney-Advisor, and as Special Assistant to the Director of the U.S. Arm Control and Disarmament Agency from 1978 to 1981, and as Deputy General Counsel for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Defense from 1997 to 1999. He has taught at the Georgetown University Law Center since 1981.
Michael Mattler
Michael Mattler is the minority counsel for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He regularly discusses U.S. policy toward the International Criminal Court.
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- arms control
Limitation of the development, testing, production, deployment, proliferation, or use of weapons through international agreements. Arms control did not arise in international diplomacy until the first Hague Convention (1899). The Washington Conference (1921–22) and the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928) were broken without much fear of sanction. U.S.-Soviet treaties to control nuclear weapons during the Cold War were taken more seriously. In 1968 the two superpowers and Britain sponsored the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (signed also by 59 other countries), which committed signatory countries not to promote the spread, or proliferation, of nuclear weapons to countries that did not already possess them. See also Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty; Strategic Arms Limitation Talks; Strategic Arms Reduction Talks.
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- Obama, Barack
(born Aug. 4, 1961, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.) 44th president of the U.S. (2009– ). Obama graduated from Columbia University (1983) and Harvard Law School (1991), where he was the first African American to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review. He moved to Chicago, where he served as a community organizer and lectured in constitutional law at the University of Chicago before he was elected (1996) to the Illinois Senate as a member of the Democratic Party. In 2004 he was elected to the U.S. Senate and quickly became a major national political figure. In 2008 Obama won an upset victory over former U.S. first lady Hillary Clinton to become the Democratic presidential nominee. He easily defeated Republican candidate John McCain and became the first African American president. In 2009 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
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