Tuesday, April 13 - 7 PM

Peter Schweizer is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution on War Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University, and a best-selling author. A former consultant to NBC News, he served from 1999-2001 as a member of the Ultraterrorism Study Group at the U.S. Government's Sandia National Laboratory.

His books have been translated into eleven languages. They included “The Fall of the Wall: Reassessing the Cause and Consequences of the End of the Cold War” (Hoover Institution Press, 2001) and “The Next War” (Regnery, 1996), co-authored with Chairman Caspar Weinberger, with a foreword written by former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He is currently co-writing a biography of the Bush family for Doubleday and "Chain of Command" with Caspar Weinberger, which will be published in 2003 by Simon and Schuster. He is also the author of "Victory" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994), and Friendly Spies (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993). He is the co-author of "Modernizing Foreign Assistance: Resource Management as an Instrument of Foreign Policy" (Praeger, 1992), and "The Soviet Concepts of Peace, Peaceful Co-Existence, and Détente" (University Press of America, 1988).

He has published articles in Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, National Review, International Herald-Tribune, and ORBIS: A Journal of World Affairs. He has appeared on NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, ABC World News Tonight, the BBC's "Newsnight", CNBC, CNN, CBN and as a guest on over 150 radio programs.