U.S. Institute of Peace, Which Facilitated the Commission, Will Hold Press Conference on May 6

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - April 30, 2009

Contact:

Lauren Sucher
+1-202-429-3822

(Washington) – Next Wednesday, May 6, a group of senior experts with decades of public service will present its final report on our nation’s strategic posture, to include its nuclear weapons strategy, to the President and Congress. They will detail their findings and respond to media questions in a press conference.

In the spring of 2008, Congress asked the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) to facilitate the bipartisan, Congressionally-appointed Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States. The Commission is chaired by former Secretary of Defense William Perry; the Vice-Chair is James Schlesinger, also a former Secretary of Defense and the first Secretary of Energy.

The Commission provided Congress an Interim Report on its progress on December 15, 2008, available online at www.usip.org/strategic_posture/interim.html.

After the news event at USIP, the Commission will be testifying first before the full House Armed Services Committee, then the next day before the full Senate Armed Services Committee.

Details for the Commission’s report release follow:

WHAT: Public Release of Final Report of the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States

WHO: Commission Chair William Perry, former Secretary of Defense
         Commission Vice-Chair James Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense and          first Secretary of Energy
         Ambassador Richard H. Solomon, President, United States Institute of Peace

** Most of the ten Commissioners will also be in attendance:

• John Foster, Director Emeritus of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Lee Hamilton, former Congressman and Vice Chair of the 9/11 Commission and the Iraq Study Group
• Keith Payne, CEO and President, National Institute for Public Policy
• Ellen Williams, University of Maryland Distinguished Professor
• Harry Cartland, former physicist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• John Glenn, former Senator and NASA astronaut
• Fred Ikle, former Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
• Morton Halperin, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
• James Woolsey, former Director, Central Intelligence Agency
• Bruce Tarter, former Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

WHEN:  12:00 PM, Wednesday, May 6, 2009

WHERE: United States Institute of Peace
             1200 17th St., NW, 2nd Floor
             Washington, DC

CONTACT: Lauren Sucher, 202/429-3822

Background information is available online at http://www.usip.org/strategic_posture/index.html.