Background
Bunn, George was born on May 26, 1925 in St. Paul. Son of Charles and Harriet (Foster) Bunn.
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Arms Control by Committee: Managing Negotiations With the Russians (I S I S Studies in International Security and Arms Control)
(This book is essentially a series of case histories of US...)
This book is essentially a series of case histories of US-Soviet nuclear arms control negotations, as seen from the American side. It describes the processes of governmental decisionmaking for arms control in Washington, DC, and the techniques for joint US-Soviet decisionmaking at the negotiating table. As general counsel of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and member of US delegations to disarmement conferences for eight years, the author was in a unique position to assess the difficulties of fashioning an arms control treaty that could pass muster within the executive branch of the US government, be approved by US allies, be successfully negotiated with the Soviets, and then win the approval of the US Senate. This process will be even more complex now that the United States will face at least four nuclear powers from the former USSR. The book has three purposes. The first is added to the recorded history of the following negotiations: the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963, the Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968, the ABM Treaty of 1972 and its companion SALT Interim Agreements, and the 1987 INF Treaty. The author asks in each case, What did the president and his assistants do (or fail to do) to negotiate a successful agreement? The second purpose is to use the case book approach, common in law schools and business schools, as a teaching device for those who wish to learn how the American government made decisions about arms control negotiations, how US-Soviet negotiations reached decisions, and what the results of the decision have been. The book's third purpose is to generalize about what works and what does not work in the complex world of arms control negotiations, including committees and comparisons of the process for negotiating arms control treaties with that for achieving arms limits through action and reaction, without written agreement. The concluding chapter looks to the future: What changes will occur in the arms control process given the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union?<
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George Bunn
Edit Profilewriter legal educator arms control negotiator
Education
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, University Wisconsin, 1946. Bachelor of Laws, Columbia, 1950.
Career
Attorney, General Counsel' General’ s Office, Atomic Energy Commission, 1950-1951; from associate to partner, Arnold, Fortas & Porter, Washington, 1951-1961; member of staff preparedness subcommittee, United States Senate, 1957; counsel to President's adviser on disarmament, 1961; general counsel, United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1961-1969; visiting professor, professor, Law School, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1969-1983; dean, Law School, University of Wisconsin, 1972-1975; Stockton chair international law, Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, 1983-1984, 85-86; visiting scholar, Stanford (California) Law School, 1986-1988. Member Stanford Center for International Security and Arms Control, since 1987. Consultant professor Stanford Institute for International Studies, since 1994.
Achievements
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Arms Control by Committee: Managing Negotiations With the Russians (I S I S Studies in International Security and Arms Control)
(This book is essentially a series of case histories of US...)
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Arms Control by Committee: Managing Negotiations With the Russians (I S I S Studies in International Security and Arms Control)
Membership
Member of the United States delegate 18 Nation Disarmament Conference, 1962-1968. Deputy chairman United States delegate, 1966-1967. Member United States delegate United Nations Disarmament Comnn., 1965.
United States representative Western 4 Jurists Group, 1963-1966. Alternate United States representative with rank of ambassador 18 Nation Disarmament Conference, 1968. Member of committee on campus tensions American Council on Education, 1969-1970.
Member Wisconsin Judicial Council, 1972-1974. Board of Governors State Bar Wisconsin, 1974-1976. Chairman hearing board on plutonium recycle Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1976-1977.
Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1946. Member American Society International Law
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Connections
Married Fralia S. Hancock, July 9, 1949 (divorced). Children— Peggy Joan, Peter Wilson, Matthew George. Married Anne Crosby Coolidge, July 30, 1974.
