John Isaacs

John Isaacs is the Executive Director and President of Council for a Livable World and Executive Director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Isaacs is one of the leaders of the nation's arms control community and is a close student on the working of Congress. He has worked for Council for a Livable World since 1978. His previous work includes serving as: principal foreign affairs legislative assistant to Representative Stephen Solarz (D-NY); legislative representative specializing in foreign policy and defense budget issues for Americans for Democratic Action; and a foreign service officer serving 13 1/2 months in Vietnam. In addition, Isaacs has also published articles in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlanta Journal, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, the Christian Science Monitor, Nuclear Times, Arms Control Today, American Journal of Public Health and Technology Review. Isaacs holds a master's degree from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College. Tel: 202.543.4100 / Email: jdi@clw.org.

The Council for a Livable World was founded in 1962 by eminent nuclear physicist Leo Szilard and other scientists who worked in the pioneer days of atomic weapons. The goal of these men and women, who knew firsthand the nature of nuclear weapons, was to warn the public and Congress of the threat of nuclear war and lead the way to rational arms control and nuclear disarmament. http://www.clw.org/policy/nuclearweapons/