A strong supporter of Reagan's 1980 presidential bid, Graham advised him on defense policy issues both before and after the election; he was a member of the transition team and served for three years as chairman of the president's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament. Graham is a former board member of the Committee on the Present Danger and has served on a number of advisory panels dealing with strategic military policy and nuclear warfare.
After obtaining a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Graham spent three years as an officer at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M., directing research on strategic systems survivability. He then joined the Rand Corporation, a think tank on defense matters in Santa Monica, Calif. In 1971, he and some physicist colleagues formed their own consulting group, R&D Associates, ...
