Former Deputy Commander in Chief of US Strategic Command (retired as Lieutenant General in 1996), he held a number of high level positions in the nuclear arena including commanding all the US Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Forces; member of the Consensus for American Security, a nonpartisan group of retired military leaders working to support START
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