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Bharat Karnad, educated in the United States (BA in Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, MA in International Relations and Security Studies, University of California, Los Angeles), he is Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. He was Member of the (First) National Security Advisory Board, National Security Council, Government of India (and as such, Member of the Nuclear Doctrine Drafting Group); and was formerly Adviser on Defence Expenditure to the (Tenth) Finance Commission. He has been consulted by the Strategic Warfare and Air Concepts Cell, Air Headquarters, Indian Air Force and the Financial Planning and Perspective Planning Directorates, Army Headquarters, and lectures regularly at the National Defence College, College of Naval Warfare, College of Air Warfare, in the programme on nuclear, biological and chemical warfare at the College of Military Engineering, the Foreign Service Institute, and the National Police Academy. His writings on nuclear issues have attracted worldwide attention. Former US President Bill Clinton's Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott described them as 'muscular". Other reputed American South Asia experts have referred to him variously as 'one of India's most prominent civilian hawks', ' the leading theoretician' and ' the most articulate proponent' of nuclear 'maximalism' and as a 'super-realist'. He has published research papers and review essays in professional journals in India and abroad, contributed Chapters to several Indian and international anthologies, and edited the volume, Future Imperilled: India's Security in the 1990s and Beyond (1994).