Some old-line disarmament advocates, including the Arms Control Association, a private group, agree with the department's logic in following both tracks.
Early in his career, he was the Assistant Director of Research at the Arms Control Association.
Previously known as the Information Systems Audit and Control Association.
"We are talking about a very good deal," said Jack Mendelsohn, deputy director of the Arms Control Association.
The President's plan would include eliminating about 2,300 of these weapons in Europe, according to the Arms Control Association.
The association became the Information Systems Audit and Control Association in 1994.
He is now a senior fellow of the Arms Control Association.
He's a physicist at the Arms Control Association here in Washington.
Source for both table: Arms Control Association.
From 1971 until his death he was president of the Arms Control Association.