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Date: April 2, 1998
Eisenhower and Kennedy, Their Summits with Khrushchev, and the Berlin Crisis
Princeton, N.J. -- Charles Sorrels, a foreign affairs analyst at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, will give a lecture entitled "Summits at the Brink: Khrushchev’s Ultimatum on Berlin and Eisenhower at Camp David (1959) and Kennedy at Vienna (1961)" at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Wednesday, April 8, in Robertson Hall, Bowl 6, at 4:30 p.m.
Sorrels joined the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in 1982. At the agency, he has been responsible for a number of vital studies, including one on the arms-control implications of NATO expansion and another on the Soviet propaganda campaign against NATO’s decision in December 1977 to respond to the buildup of SS-20 missiles threatening Western Europe. He also prepared memoranda for the President on arms control and summits from 1955-79 and was responsible for drafting sections on SALT I, SALT II, and INF for a project on negotiating history.
Prior to his appointment at the agency, Sorrels was a senior fellow at the Strategic Concepts Development Center (1981-82), a member of the research staff of the System Planning Corporation (1979-82), a consultant to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (1979-80), and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of U.S. Cruise Missile Programs: Development, Deployment, and Implications for Arms Control and is at work on a book reviewing the U.S.-Soviet/Russian summit experience.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.