PAUL WARNKE

Amb. Paul Warnke, director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency during the Carter administration and a decades-long fixture in the American arms controil community, died in October 2001 at the age of 81. Amb. Warnke attended the 31st Pugwash Confernece in Banff, Canada in August 1981, a few years after leaving government service, and later went on to become chair of the Committee for National Security and a long-time member of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security. In the 1960s, Warnke served under Secretaries of Defense Robert McNamara and Clark Clifford and was a forceful advocate for US disengagement from Vietnam.