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APPENDIX A Committee on Reviewing and Updating "Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty" (CTBT)
APPENDIX A Committee on Reviewing and Updating "Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty" (CTBT)
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In 1994, he received a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from Indiana University and since that time has worked at PNNL in a variety of nonproliferation programs related to nuclear weapons material production detection, nuclear testing detection, and nonproliferation policy.
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Negotiator for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, Director of Defense Programs and Arms Control on the National Security Council staff, Vice President for Policy Analyses at the Center for Naval Analyses and a number of Navy and Defense Department assignments as a 30-year career naval officer. Currently he is an independent consultant on national security issues, a Senior Advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Distinguished Research Fellow at the National Defense University, and an advisor to two of the Department of Energy weapons laboratories.
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He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, IEEE, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Engineering, the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and the American Philosophical Society. From 2001 to 2008, he chaired Department of State's Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board.
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Tarter has served in a number of outside professional capacities, including a six-year period with the Army Science Board; service as an adjunct professor at the University of California, Davis; membership on the California Council on Science and Technology, the Laboratory Operations Board (Secretary of Energy Advisory Board) , the Council on Foreign Relations, the Defense Science Board, the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States, and Draper Laboratory (member of the Corporation and the Board of Directors)
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In 2002, he co-edited (with William Walter) a "Pure and Applied Geophysics" special journal volume titled "Seismic Event Discrimination and Identification related to Monitoring a CTBT." He has authored journal articles concerning nuclear explosion event identification at Nevada Test Site, the former Soviet Test Site in Kazakhstan, Russia's Novaya Zemlya Test Site, and China's Lop Nor Test Site.
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Gregory van der Vink is President and CEO of Terrametrics LLC, a firm that specializes in poverty reduction and conflict mitigation through environmentally-sustainable economic development and analytical assessments of human responses to environmental change. Prior to Terrametrics LLC, he held senior executive positions in the largest National Science Foundation-funded geoscience research programs.
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