American physicist at SLAC and Hoover Institution — who combined high-energy physics with arms control advocacy — one of the most respected physics voices on nuclear weapons policy — worked with the President's Science Advisory Committee.
Creates the physicist-arms controller model — Drell's ability to move between particle physics and nuclear policy gave arms control debates technical credibility that purely political analysts lacked.
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