Signatories

Sir Lawrence Freedman has been Professor of War Studies at King's College London since 1982. He became head of the School of Social Science and Public Policy at King's in 2000 and was appointed Vice-Principal in 2003. He was educated at Whitley Bay Grammar School and the Universities of Manchester, York and Oxford. Sir Lawrence has written extensively on nuclear strategy and the Cold War, as well as commentating regularly on contemporary security issues. Among his books are Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos and Vietnam (2000), The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy (3rd edition 2004) and Deterrence (2005).