Vice Admiral Burkhalter opened the Roundtable with an informative look at the "big picture" -- the strategic environment in the post-Cold War era and its implications for U.S. security interests.

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Among the participants were former Secretaries of Defense James Schlesinger and Caspar Weinberger , the former Director of Naval Nuclear Reactors, Admiral Kinnaird McKee , the former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Vice Admiral Al Burkhalter , former Under Secretary of Defense Don Hicks and former chief strategic arms negotiator Ambassador Linton Brooks .

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