Paul Leventhal,
President, Nuclear Control Institute (clip
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Paul L. Leventhal is President of the Nuclear
Control Institute, which he founded in
1981 after holding senior staff
positions in the U.S. Senate. He has
prepared four books for NCI and lectured
in a number of countries on nuclear
issues.He came to Washington in 1969 as
Press Secretary to Senator Jacob K.
Javits (R-N.Y.) after a decade of
political and investigative reporting
for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, New
York Post and Newsday. In
l972, he served as Congressional
Correspondent for National Journal.
He returned to Capitol Hill as Special
Counsel to the Senate Government
Operations Committee, l972-1976, and
also Staff Director of the Senate
Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee,
l979-1981. He contributed to enactment
of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974
and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of
1978.He was co-director of the Senate
Special Investigation of the Three Mile
Island Nuclear Accident, 1979-1980,
and
helped prepare the
"lessons-learned" legislation
enacted in 1980. He was
Research Fellow
at Harvard University's Program for
Science and International Affairs,
1976-1977.He served as Assistant
Administrator for Policy and Planning at
the U.S. National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
1977-1978.He holds a bachelor's degree in
government, magna cum laude, from
Franklin and Marshall College,
which
presented him its Alumni Medal in 1988,
and a master's degree from the Columbia
University Graduate School ofJournalism.
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