Dr. Seth Carus

Dr. Jason Ellis

S. Read Hanmer

Rebecca Hersman

Dr. John Reichart
Deputy Director
202-685-4200
reichartj@ndu.edu

Prior to assuming his duties at NDU, Dr. Reichart served for six years on the Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, where he was responsible for European security policy and global political/military issues. He has served at the U.S. Mission to NATO and as Associate Professor, USAF Academy. Dr. Reichart, a retired USAF colonel, is the author of American Defense Policy. Dr. Reichart is a member of the faculty of the National War College where he teaches courses in Counterproliferation and National Security Policy.

Dr. Seth Carus
Senior Research Professor
202-685-2242
caruss@ndu.edu

Dr. Carus is a Senior Research Professor at National Defense University. His current work focuses primarily on issues related to biological terrorism and warfare. Prior to joining NDU, he worked at the Center for Naval Analyses, where directed a study on the implications of NBC weapons on a major regional contingency in Korea. He served for three years on the policy planning staff in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. His publications include "The Poor Man's Atomic Bomb"?: Biological Weapons in the Middle East (January 1991), The Genie Unleashed: Iraqi Biological and Chemical Weapons (July 1989, Ballistic Missiles in the Third World: Threat and Response (1990), and Cruise Missile Proliferation in the 1990s (1992).

Dr. Jason Ellis
Research Professor
202-685-4207
ellisj@ndu.edu

Dr. Ellis is a Research Professor at the National Defense University's Center for
Counterproliferation Research. Dr. Ellis received his Ph.D. in International Relations from American University's School of International Service in 1997, and holds a B.A. in Political Science and Third World Studies from the University of California, San Diego. In 1998-99, he was a Senior Analyst with the congressionally-mandated Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (chaired by John Deutch). Previously, Dr. Ellis was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, as well as a consultant to SAIC's Center for Verification Research, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Congressional Research Service, and elsewhere. A specialist in U.S. foreign and defense policy and international security affairs, Dr. Ellis has published in such journals as Survival, Arms Control Today, Orbis, and European Security. He is author of Defense by Other Means: The Politics of Threat Reduction and U.S.-NIS Nuclear Security Cooperation (forthcoming), co-author of Send Guns and Money: Security Assistance and U.S. Foreign Policy (Praeger, 1997) and co-author of Training for Peace Operations: The U.S. Army Adapts to the Post-Cold War World (U.S. Institute of Peace, 1997). His current research includes projects on U.S. intelligence-policy relations, China and deterrence, and NBC threat scenarios: 2002-2010.

S. Read Hanmer
Consultant
202-685-6250
fletcherc@ndu.edu

The Honorable Stephen Read Hanmer, Jr., is a consultant in the field of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons policy, effects, and arms control. From 1989 to 1993, Ambassador Hanmer served as the Deputy Director of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA). Previously, from January 1988 to June 1989, Ambassador Hanmer was the Chief U.S. Negotiator for Strategic Offensive Arms in the U.S.-Soviet negotiations on Nuclear and Space Arms. Ambassador Hanmer has also served as the Principal Deputy Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy. From 1981 through February 1984, Ambassador Hanmer was the Director of the Pentagon's Office of Theater Nuclear Forces Policy. Prior to joining the Civil Service, Ambassador Hanmer had a distinguished twenty-one year career as an officer in the United States Army.

Rebecca Hersman
Consultant
202-685-4235
hersmanr@ndu.edu

Ms. Hersman joined the Center for Counterproliferation Research in November 1998. Her primary project is on the role of the Department of Defense in mitigating the effects of chemical and biological weapons attack (consequence management) both in the United States and against U.S. interests abroad, as well as proliferation issues facing the Department of Defense more generally. Ms. Hersman was a 1997 International Affairs Fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations and spent her fellowship year at the Brookings Institution working on executive-legislative relations and foreign policy. Prior to that, Ms. Hersman was Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. She has also served on the professional staff of the House Armed Services Committee and in the U.S. Information Agency. She completed her undergraduate study at Duke University and received her Master's Degree from Georgetown University.