Thomas J. Hirschfeld

After he left government service, he held several positions in the private sector, including stints as Tom Slick Professor of World Peace at the University of Texas, Austin (1986–87), Senior Analyst at the RAND Corporation (1988–92), and the Center for Naval Analyses (1992-2006), where he worked on naval and arms control issues in the far east.

Hirschfeld was the author of Intelligence and Arms Control: a Marriage of Convenience [2] as well as many articles on national security and nuclear nonproliferation.

Returning to Washington in 1970, he was appointed Deputy Chief of the Regional Affairs Division of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

After spending a year at the Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy, the Department of State's program for training senior officers, he worked on science and technology issues, including technology, arms control, and terrorism for the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff.

After retirement, he was a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center (Smithsonian), and 1986-87 Distinguished Visiting Tom Slick Professor of World Peace at the University of Texas, Austin He became a Consultant to the RAND Corporation in 1988 and was hired the following year as a Senior Analyst in Santa Monica CA.