President of the Rachel Carson Council and senior fellow at the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University; author of Rachel Carson and Her Sisters: Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment; former CEO of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize-winning Physicians for Social Responsibility, where he led the opposition to the Iraq War as a founder of the Win without War coalition
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