with Michael O'Hanlon, Fareed Zakaria, Ken Adelman and more on May 2, 2003
with Ken Adelman and David Sanger on Feb 13, 2002
Ken Adelman was the deputy U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for two-and a half years, working with Jeanne Kirkpatrick. He also served as the Director of the U.S. Arms Control & Disarmament Agency for nearly five years, during the Reagan administration. He was an advisor to President Ronald Reagan during the superpower summits between Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.
Adelman began working for the government in 1969 at the Commerce Department, and then served in the Office of Economic Opportunity. From 1975 to 1977 during the Gerald Ford administration, Adelman was an Assistant to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and now is a member of the Defense Policy Board. He has also served as a national editor of Washingtonian magazine for more than 17 years.
Adelman is a member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board well-known for his involvement in conservative policy efforts dating back to the 1970s, when he was a member of the neoconservative Committee on the Present Danger. More recently, he strongly supported the war on Iraq and worked for the think tank Project for the New American Century, arguing for new policies to help the United States remain a global leader.
