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Bio of William M. Arkin (below)

William M. Arkin is an independent writer, investigator, and consultant specializing in national security affairs. He is the "Dot.Mil" columnist for the Washington Post's online service and has written the "Last Word" column in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists since 1985. He is also a regular contributor to Defense Daily. He is an adjunct professor at the U.S. Air Force's School of Advanced Airpower Studies.

Arkin's interest in Iraq began when he was director of military research for Greenpeace International. During the Gulf War, he headed Greenpeace's war response team and co-authored On Impact: Modern Warfare and the Environment: A Case of the Gulf War (May 1991),which was the first comprehensive study of the war's human and environmental effects.

In August 1991, five months after the Gulf War ceasefire, Arkin traveled to Iraq as military adviser to the second "Harvard Study Team," which conducted a survey of the effects of bombing on the civilian population. He visited over 250 sites that had been bombed, and he subsequently briefed the finding of his on the ground bomb damage assessment to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the CIA and other intelligence agencies, the Air Force and Navy, as well as other military audiences. He returned to Iraq in February 1993 to complete his research, and conducted extensive interviews with Iraqi government and military leaders.

Arkin has written extensively about targeting and airpower, and he became a consultant to Human Rights Watch in 1995, where he continues to pioneer independent field work and research to investigate the effects of weapons and warfare on civilian populations. He has since conducted bomb damage assessments in Lebanon and Yugoslavia, most recently in August 1999 after Operation Allied Force. In 1998 and 1999, Arkin also served as an on-air analyst on military affairs for MSNBC and NBC during the bombings of Iraq and Yugoslavia. His work on Iraq and targeting has been featured on CBS' 60 Minutes, ABC's 20/20, NBC Nightly News, BBC, CNN, and the Discovery Channel.

Mr. Arkin is the author or co-author of several books, including SIOP: The Secret US Plan for Nuclear War (1983); Encyclopedia of the US Military; and, most recently, The U.S. Military Online (1998, 2nd edition). He also co-authored and co-edited the prestigious encyclopedia of nuclear weapons, the five-volume Nuclear Weapons Databook, undertaken by the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Mr. Arkin served in the U.S. Army from 1974-1978, and was an assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence of the US Commander Berlin. He was engaged in a number of covert intelligence collection projects and was the primary intelligence analyst for the West Berlin command.

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