Professor, Political Science Department
Pre-law Adviser
Colorado State University

Office telephone:  (970) 491-5200
FAX: (970) 491-2490
E-mail: rlaw@lamar.colostate.edu

Courses Taught

PO 101 American Government & Politics
PO 435 U.S. Foreign Policy
PO 437 American Security Policy
PO 492 Capstone Seminar

Personal Data

Born, Emporia, Kansas, January 30, 1932.  Married Marjorie Elaine Woodbury, September 1, 1956. Four daughters.
 

Education

Elementary and secondary schools, Emporia, Kansas   1938-1950
B.S., Kansas State University, Journalism             1954
M.A., University of Kansas, Political Science         1959
Ph.D. University of Kansas, Political Science         1962

Military Service

United States Air Force, 2d. Lt.; 1st Lt.     1954-1957
328th Fighter Squadron

Professional Experience

University of Kansas  Research Assistant        1959
University of Kansas  Head Teaching Assistant        1962
Hudson Institute   Research Staff Member   1962-1963
Texas Tech University  Assistant Professor   1963-1965
Texas Tech University  Associate Professor (tenured)  1966-1967
Stanford Research Institute Research Staff Member   1967-1968
 (Strategic Studies Ctr)
University of Arizona  Associate Professor (tenured)  1968-1971
Colorado State University Associate Professor   1971-1973
Colorado State University Professor (tenured)   1974-pres
University of Colorado  Visiting Professor   1985-1996
University of Wyoming  Visiting Professor        1995

Security Clearances

Top Secret
Critical Nuclear Weapons Design Information

Consulting

Melpar, Inc., Falls Church, Virginia     1963-1965
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California    1970-1972
Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California   1968-1974
Braddock, Dunn, and McDonald, Inc., Vienna, Virginia   1975-1977
ISA of ERDA, Washington DC       1976-1978
Rockwell International, Los Angeles CA     1986-1987

Publications - Books

1. A Study of Escalation, with Herman Kahn, Morris Isom, William Pfaff, and Edmund Stillman, (New York:  Hudson Institute, 1963), 340 pages.

 (Portions of the above study were republished in On Escalation, Metaphors and Scenarios, (New York:  Frederick A. Prager, 1965).

2. American Government Today, with Gaylon Caldwell, (New York:  Norton, 1969, 515 pages.

3. Teoria y Practica del Gobierno Actual de los Estados Unidos, with Gaylon Galdwell, (Mexico City: Editorial Diana press, 1972), 462 pages.

4. Arms Control and Disarmament:  Practice and Promise, (Minneapolis:  Burgess, 1973), 72 pages.

5. Nuclear Proliferation:  Phase II, with Joel Larus, eds., (Lawrence:  University Press of Kansas, 1974), 256 pages; Chapter 1, "A Historical Review of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation," pp. 1-29; and Chapter 9, "Implications of Phase II Proliferation for the United State,"  pp.239-245.

6. New Dimensions to Energy Policy, ed., (Lexington, MA:  Lexington Books, 1979), 231 pages.

 (This book was selected as one of the "Outstanding Academic Books of 1979" by the American Library Association).

7. International Energy Policy, ed., with Martin O. Heisler, (Lexington, MA:  Lexington Books, 1980), 218 pages.

8. The Strategic Defense Initiative Reference Guide and Bibliography, (Boulder:  Westview Press, 1987), 352 pages.

Publications - Monographs, articles, government studies, and book chapters.

1. "Defense Expenditures and the Kansas Economy," Your Government, Bulletin of the Government Research Center, University of Kansas, March 15, 1961, pp 1-4.

2. "Space Denial--An Amplification," Air Force and Space Digest, October, 1962, pp.54-56

3. "Should the U.S. Pull Out of Europe?", War/Peace Report, June-July, 1966, pp. 22-23.

4. "A Frame of Reference for Studying the Political and Economic Impacts Caused by the Closure of Military Installations," Rocky Mountain Social Science Journal, October , 1966, pp.135-147.

5. Nth Nation Threat Analysis:  West Germany, Sweden, Canada, Israel, and Selected Other Countries, with William Van Cleave (Menlo Park:  Stanford Research Institute, 1968), 425 pages.

6. "Economic Effects of the Announced Closure of Amarillo Air Force Base, Texas," with Theodore Taylor, in Civilian Manpower and Community Impact Analysis:  Change in Status of Military Installations, (Washington, DC:  United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1968), 43 pages.

7. "Assertive Disarmament,"  with William Van Cleave, National Review, September 10, 1968, pp. 898-905.

8. "The Strategic and Political Environment," with J.L. Kangus, John H. Morse, and Harold Rood, in Air, Missile, and Space Threat--1985, (Menlo Park:  Stanford Research Institute, 1969), 98 pages.  Classified-Top Secret and Critical Nuclear Weapons Design Information.

9. Communist China and Clandestine Nuclear Weapons, with Mark Earle, Phillip Dolan, Edwin Kinderman, Terenik Koujakian, and Harold Rood, (Menlo Park:  Stanford Research Institute, 1970), 134 pages.  Classified--Atomic Energy Commission Restricted Data.

10. Contributor to National Security Study Memorandum No. 69, during 1970, while working as a consultant of the RAND Corporation in the offices of William Van Cleave, ISA/OSD, Department of Defense.  Classified--Top Secret.

11. "An American National Energy Policy?", in Growing Against Ourselves:  The Energy Environment Tangle, S.L. Kwee and J.S.R. Mullender, eds., (Lexington:  D.C. Heath, 1972), pp. 175-191.

12. Implications of Indian and/or Japanese Nuclear Proliferation for U.S. Defense Policy Planning, with William Van Cleave and S.R. Young, (Menlo Park:  Stanford Research Institute, 1973), 84 pages.

13. "Research Possibilities in the Area of the Formulation and Implementation of Energy Policy--Institutions," in Energy and the Social Sciences--A Compendium of Research Needs, (Washington DC:  Resources for the Future, 1973), section IV, pp. 329-369.

14. The Energy Crisis:  Reality or Myth, co-edited with Norman Wengert, Fall, 1973, issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 168 pages.

15. "Energy Policy Research," Policy Studies Journal, Winter, 1973, pp. 141-146.

16. "Energy and the Environment," in Environment and Colorado, Phillip O. Foss, ed., (Fort Collins:  Environmental Research Center, CSU, 1974), pp. 141-146.

17. "Political-Military Factors Influencing Nuclear Proliferation," in Nuclear Weapons Proliferation Regarding Argentina, Brazil, Iran, Pakistan, and Nationalist China, (Menlo Park:  Stanford Research Institute, 1975), pp. 23-58.

18. "Higher Prices, Insecurity, and Degradation:  Tradeoffs in U.S. Energy Policy," American Behavioral Scientist, September-October, 1975, pp. 8 - 36.

19. "The Nonproliferation Treaty and the Nuclear Aspirants:  The Strategic Context of the Indian Ocean," Chapter 3 in Nuclear Proliferation and the Near-Nuclear Countries, Omi Marwah and Ann Schultz, ed., (Cambridge: Ballinger, 1976), pp. 59-77.

20. Regional Factors in Siting and Planning Energy Facilities in Eleven Western States, with Norman Wengert, published by the Western Interstate Nuclear Board, funded by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, November, 1976, 236 pages.

21. Policy Studies Journal, special issue on energy policy, ed., Autumn, 1978, 131 pages.

22. "Energy Policy," Chapter 32, in Encyclopedia of Policy Studies, Stuart Nagel, ed., (New York:  Marcel Dekker, 1983), pp. 775-804.  This book was reproduced by the Peoples Republic of China government, 1985

23. Deterrence vs. War-Fighting:  Policy and Weaponry Options in 1984, and Beyond, with Stephen J. Sidorak, Jr., Colorado Consortium on International Policy, Graduate School of International Studies & Iliff School of Theology, University of Denver, 1984, 10 pages.

24. Estimating Soviet Responses to BMD, co-authored with Jefferson Hofgard, Center for Space Law and Policy, University of Colorado, 1987, 39 pages.

25. "UNSATS---Merging Classical Political Theory with Advanced Space Surveillance Technology for the Post Cold War World", in The High Frontier: Accession, Development and Utilization, (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics:  1993), pp. 111-127.

26. "Energy Policy", Chapter 32, in Encyclopedia of Policy Studies, Stuart Nagel, ed., (New York:  Marcel Dekker, 1994), pp. 769-793.

27. "Space Policy", Chapter 34, in Encyclopedia of Policy Studies, Stuart Nagel, ed., (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1994), pp. 815-853.

28. With R. McGreggor Cawley, "The Interface of National Security Policy and Federal Land Policy, or, The Greening of the Pentagon" in Post-Cold War Policy--The Social and Domestic Context, William Crotty, ed., (Chicago:  Nelson Hall, 1995), Chapter 11, pp 274-292.

Publications -- Other

1. "Military Affairs" and "Arms Control" articles in the Encyclopedia Americana Annuals from 1973 through 1998.

2. "SALT - With China?", published as a letter to the editor of the New York Times, August 1, 1971, editorial page.

3. Lowry Hazardous Waste Report, ed., Colorado Governor's Science and Technology Advisory Council, 1981, 17 pages.

4. "Solving the Problem with Midgetman (the small ICBM)," Oped article in the Christian Science Monitor, June 24, 1983, editorial page.

5. "Precedent-Setting Opposition to MX," Oped article in the Denver Post, March 10, 1984, editorial page.

6. Report of the Rocky Flats Employees Health Assessment Group, ed., Colorado Governor's Science and Technology Advisory Council, March 21, 1984, 15 pages.

7. "Reagan Has Rare Chance to Control the Arms Race," Oped Article in The Rocky Mountain News, November 23, 1984, editorial page.

8. "The Academic Facts of Life," Oped article in The Denver Post, September 30, 1987, editorial page.

9. "Peace in the Global Greenhouse," with Jefferson Hofgard, Oped article in the Denver Post, November 12, 1988, editorial page.

10. "The Cold War is Over and We Won," Oped article in the Denver Post, June 3, 1989, editorial page.

11. "New Dawn Breaks Over the UN," with Andrei Pointkowsky, Oped article in the Rocky Mountain News, October 24, 1990, editorial page.

12. "Ghost of Lenin Haunts USSR", Oped article in the Christian Science Monitor, January 14, 1991, with Andre Piontkowsky and Christine Ferguson.

13. Essay on Walter Roberts, Remembering Walt Roberts, University Corporation for Atmospheric Science, 1991, pp. 167-168.

14. "Atomic Bombing Held a Lesson of Life, and We Must Learn It", Oped article in The Denver Post, August 5, 1995, editorial page.

15. "Kosovo is No Vietnam", Oped article in The Denver Post, April 10, 1999.

Honors and Awards

1. United States Air Force Commendation Medal, 1957.

2. University Daily Teaching and Service Award, Texas Tech University 1967.

3. Twenty Best Teachers Award, Associated Students of the University of Arizona, Course Evaluation, 1970.

4. Honors Prof Award, Colorado State University, 1978.

5. Charles A. Lory Award for Excellence in Teaching, Colorado State University, 1980.

6. Outstanding Teacher Award, Pi Sigma Alpha/Political Science Department, Colorado State University, 1984.

7. Teacher of the Month Award, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado, February, 1988.

8. Recipient of Gender Neutral Language Award, University of Colorado Women's Caucus, 1992.

9. Recipient of Chi Omega Sorority Outstanding Educator Award, University of Colorado, 1994.

10. Outstanding Teacher Award, Pi Sigma Alpha/Political Science Department,  Colorado State University, 1997.

 11. Thomas R. Dye Service Award, Policy Studies Organization, 1997.

12.   U.S. West Excellence in Education Award, 1998.

13. Stern Award for Teaching, College of Liberal Arts, Colorado State University, 1998.

Past Public Service

1. Governing Board, Western Political Science Association.

2. Member, Committee on Energy Taxation, National Academy of Science.

3. Chair, Colorado Governor's Science and Technology Advisory Committee.

4. Chair, Colorado Governor's Lowry Hazardous Waste Technical Committee

5. Colorado State University Elderhostel lecturer

6. Member, Technical Advisory Group, Colorado Governor's Rocky Flats Blue Ribbon Committee.

7. Chair, Colorado Governor's Rocky Flats Workers Health Effects (low level ionizing radiation) Group.

8. President, Citizens for Responsive Government (Fort Collins, CO. political action committee.)

9. Executive Committee, Nuclear Freeze ballot issue (Fort Collins, CO., political action committee.

10. Director, Colorado State University Alumni College.

11. President, University of Colorado Parents Association.

12. Organized 1989 Colorado State University - University of Colorado environmental team trip to the U.S.S.R.  This visit led to the recently signed agreement between CSU/Bureau of Land Management and the Soviet government on the establishment of five global change monitoring stations in the U.S. and five counterpart stations in Russia.

13. Executive Committee, Colorado Club of Rome, 1989 Conference on Global  Change.

14. Governing Board, Western Association of Pre-Law Advisors.

15. Governing Board, University of Colorado Directors Club.

16.  Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Wyoming,
   spring semester 1995. $1,000 stipend donated to CSU.

17. Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Colorado, 1985-1996.
 

Current Public Service

1. Director of Colorado State University "Burning Issues" summer lecture series at the YMCA of the Rockies Center, Estes Park, Colorado, since 1977.

2. Board of Directors, Fort Collins, Colorado Rotary Club, since 1997.

3. Advisory Council, Colorado Space Consortia, University of Colorado, since 1995.

4. Sponsor of two defectors from the Soviet Union who received U.S. citizenship in 1997.

5. University Prelaw Adviser since 1974.

6. ROTC Advisory Board, since 1996.