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Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. served as a senior US diplomat in every major international arms control and nonproliferation negotiation in which the United States took part from 1970 to 1997. In 1995, he shared with Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala of Sri Lanka, president of the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference, the Trainer Award for Distinction in the Conduct of Diplomacy from Georgetown University. Ambassador Graham has taught at a number of prestigious universities including the University of Virginia School of Law, Georgetown University, the Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford University, the University of Washington, Oregon State University, the University of Tennessee, and Dartmouth University. Ambassador Graham has also written extensively, including some 12 books and nearly 100 articles. His books include Disarmament Sketches: Three Decades of Arms Control and International Law; Unending Crisis: National Security Policy after 9/11; The Alternate Route: Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones; America: The Founders' Vision; and the novels Sapphire: A Tale of the Cold War and On Tyranny and Crisis, the story of an attempted coup in the US. Ambassador Graham's professional website is www.thomasgraham.info.