The Threat of a Nuclear Iran: A Conversation with Charles Robb
When: Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 6:30 pm
Where: LBJ Library & Museum :: 10th Floor Atrium
Contact: Sarah McCracken [sarah@lbjfoundation.org...]
Please join us as the Future Forum convenes to discuss the looming threat of a nuclear Iran with former Governor and Senator Charles Robb. Senator Robb recently co-authored the Bipartisan Policy Center report Meeting the Challenge: When Time Runs Out, an update to an earlier report on Iranian nuclear development. To quote the report, “The most immediate national security threat to the United States is Iran’s rapid progress toward achieving nuclear weapons capability—and time is running out. A nuclear Islamic Republic of Iran must be prevented, as it cannot be contained.”
A reception will follow the discussion. Free parking will be available in the LBJ Library visitors’ lot (lot #38).
- Members: Free
- Non-Members: $10 each at the door
Please pass this invitation on to friends or colleagues who might be interested in the Future Forum!
About Charles Robb:
Charles S. Robb served as Virginia's 64th Governor (1982 to 1986), following a term as Lieutenant Governor (1978 to 1982). He later served as a United States Senator (1989 to 2001), before joining the faculty of George Mason University as a Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy. While in the Senate, he became the first member ever to serve simultaneously on all three national security committees (Intelligence, Armed Services, and Foreign Relations). He also served on the Finance, Commerce, and Budget Committees.
Since leaving the Senate in 2001, he has served as chairman of the Board of Visitors at the United States Naval Academy, co-chairman of the President's Commission on Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction and co-chairman of a major landowner's alliance formed to help finance the extension of Metrorail to Tysons Corner and Dulles Airport. He has also been a member of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, the Secretary of State's International Security Advisory Board (chairman, WMD-Terrorism Task Force), the Iraq Study Group, and the Afghanistan Study Group. He was a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University and at the Marshall Wythe School of Law at William & Mary.
He is currently a member of the FBI Director's Advisory Board, the Critical Incident Analysis Group, the Center for Infrastructure Protection Advisory Board, the Council on Foreign Relations Independent Task Force on Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the Homeland Security Policy Institute. He also serves on the boards of the MITRE Corporation, the Space Foundation, the Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy, the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, the Bipartisan Policy Center, the Concord Coalition, the National Museum for Americans in Wartime, Strategic Partnerships LLP, GMU's Critical Infrastructure Protection Program, the Robertson Foundation Advisory Board, and the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress. He was recently appointed as an independent director to serve on the board of directors of the Invacare Corporation. He also works on occasional advisory projects with the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Before becoming a member of Congress, Mr. Robb chaired the Southern Governors' Association, the Democratic Governors' Association, the Education Commission of the States, the Democratic Leadership Council, Jobs for America's Graduates, the National Conference of Lieutenant Governors, the Virginia Forum on Education, and was president of the Council of State Governments.
During the 1960s, he served on active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps, retiring from the Marine Corps Reserve in 1991. He began as the Class Honor Graduate from Marine Officers Basic School in 1961 and ended up as head of the principal recruiting program for Marine officers in 1970. In between, he served in both the 1st and 2nd Marine Divisions, and his assignments included duty as a military social aide at the White House and command of an infantry company in combat in Vietnam.
He received his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1973, clerked for Judge John D. Butzner, Jr., on the U.S. Court of Appeals, and practiced law with Williams and Connolly prior to his election to state office. Between his state and federal service, he was a partner at Hunton and Williams.