Background
Carnesale was born on July 2, 1936 in Bronx, New York, United States. His father was a taxi driver and his mother was an office clerk.
Gen. Edward Rice, Jr. (left) makes a point, while United States Air Force Secretary Michael Donley and Albert Carnesale listen during the West Coast National Security Scholars Conference held at USC.
Albert and Robin Carnesale, Eva Marie Saint, Randy Newman, Timothy Noonan and UCLA Longevity Center Director Dr. Gary Smal.
(At the request of the President of Harvard University, si...)
At the request of the President of Harvard University, six Harvard scholars have joined forces to write a book that lays out the facts about nuclear weapons for all concerned citizens who want to think through the nuclear dilemma for themselves. Living with Nuclear Weapons is written by specialists for the general reader. It conveys crucial information clearly, concisely, and without technical jargon. Living with Nuclear Weapons presents all sides of the nuclear debate while explaining what everyone needs to know to develop informed and reasoned opinions about the issues. Among the specifics are a history of nuclear weaponry; an examination of current nuclear arsenals; scenarios of how a nuclear war might begin; a discussion of what can be done to promote arms control and disarmament; a study of the hazards of nuclear proliferation; an analysis of various nuclear strategies; and an explanation of how public opinion can influence policy on the nuclear arms question.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674536657/?tag=2022091-20
(This occasional paper is an edited version of a briefing ...)
This occasional paper is an edited version of a briefing book that was designed by members of Harvard University's Avoiding Nuclear War Project and distributed among newly appointed officials in the Bush administration. Originally designed to help combat the lack of institutional memory on nuclear issues in the American government, these fourteen chapters also provide an interesting overview of these issues for a broader audience. A Primer for the Nuclear Age addresses the danger, effects, development, strategy, and force structure of nuclear weapons as well as assessing the influence of domestic and international politics on nuclear weapons policy. Co-published with the Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0819177016/?tag=2022091-20
(Several nations are challenging decades of effort by the ...)
Several nations are challenging decades of effort by the international community to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. Robert D. Blackwill and Albert Carnesale, along with eight other experts, analyze the national security consequences for the United States if new nuclear-weapon states emerge to threaten American interests. The contributors examine the nations most likely to cross the nuclear threshold and how these countries would acquire, maintain, and protect their new nuclear weapons capabilities. Individual chapters address: how nuclear weapons in Saddam Husseins hands could have altered the outcome of the Gulf War; the ways that American diplomacy and international arms control could meet the dangers posed by new nuclear nations; U.S. military options for dealing with the nuclear weapons and delivery systems of new proliferators; the role and limitations of intelligence systems of new proliferators; the role and limitations of intelligence in penetrating hostile nuclear programs; and the circumstancesif andunder which the United States should provide technical assistance to increase the safety of emerging nuclear arsenals.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0876091532/?tag=2022091-20
Carnesale was born on July 2, 1936 in Bronx, New York, United States. His father was a taxi driver and his mother was an office clerk.
Carnesale received a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cooper Union in 1957. Four years later he earned his Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University. Then in 1966, Albert was given a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Nuclear Engineering from North Carolina State University.
Carnesale began his career as a lecturer on the nuclear engineering faculty at North Carolina State University in 1962 and held it for seven years. He served as a chief of the Defensive Weapons Systems Division, Science and Technology Bureau of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in Washington from 1969 to 1972.
In 1972, he became a professor and head of the Division of University Studies at North Carolina State University. Then in 1974, Albert took a position of a member of the faculty at Harvard University. In 1981, he was promoted to academic dean of the Kennedy School of Government. Ten years later Carnesale became a dean at the same school, where he worked until 1995. Also in 1994 he was appointed a provost at Harvard University, where he served until 1997.
In November 1994, Carnesale was appointed acting president of Harvard while President Rudenstine was on leave. He worked in that position for three months. On July 1, 1997 Albert held the position of a chancellor of the University of California in Los Angeles and served it until June 30, 2006.
In 2009, Carnesale chaired a National Academies committee. A year later the United States Department of Energy appointed Albert to a high-level national commission on nuclear waste production, the 15-person Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future. Also in 2014, he was appointed to the United States Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board.
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(This occasional paper is an edited version of a briefing ...)
(Several nations are challenging decades of effort by the ...)
Carnesale is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Pacific Council on International Policy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Also, he is a member of the Board of Directors of Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Advisory Board of the RAND Corporation’s Center for Global Risk and Security and Secretary of Energy’s Advisory Board.
He serves on the National Academies Committee on United States Air Force Strategic Deterrence Capabilities, chaired the National Academies Committees on NASA’s Strategic Direction, on America’s Climate Choices, on Nuclear Forensics and on U. S. Conventional Prompt Global Strike.
On April 6, 2002 Albert Carnesale married Robin Gerber. They have 2 children.