Commander Dave Stevens was a nuclear weapons qualified fighter pilot. He served as the Strike Operations Officer for the Persian Gulf during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. With a Top Secret clearance, he led classified defense programs, test-piloted new F-18 fighters and earned an aviation patent. He's been to over 30 countries, on six of the seven seas, 10 miles above the earth and 600 feet under the Atlantic and ... survived hundreds of his own carrier landings. Stevens holds engineering degrees from Cornell and the University of Michigan with graduate work in astrophysics and statistics. An international speaker and award winning author, he utilizes an network of renowned subject matter experts, from intelligence operatives to astronauts and astrophysicists, to entertain and educate.