DOCSLIB.ORG

Albert J. and Roberta Wohlstetter Papers

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Albert J. and Roberta Wohlstetter Papers http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt1489q8rg Online items available Register of the Albert J. and Roberta Wohlstetter papers Finding aid prepared by Aparna Mukherjee, David Jacobs, Natalia Porfirenko, and Ronald Bulatoff Hoover Institution Library and Archives © 2001, 2007, 2020 434 Galvez Mall Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-6003 [email protected] URL: http://www.hoover.org/library-and-archives Register of the Albert J. and 97076 1 Roberta Wohlstetter papers Title: Albert J. and Roberta Wohlstetter papers Date (inclusive): 1929-2007 Collection Number: 97076 Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives Language of Material: English Physical Description: 846 manuscript boxes, 5 card file boxes, 8 oversize boxes(343.4 Linear Feet) Abstract: Speeches and writings, correspondence, notes, memoranda, reports, studies, and printed matter relating to American military and national security policy, nuclear warfare strategic planning, and nuclear proliferation issues. Includes the papers of Roberta Wohlstetter, wife of Albert J. Wohlstetter. Digital copies of select records also available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org. Creator: Wohlstetter, Albert Creator: Wohlstetter, Roberta Hoover Institution Library & Archives Access "Boxes 1-61, 201-354, 385-754, 815-821, and 838-859 closed. The remainder of the collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least two business days in advance of intended use." Publication Rights For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Acquisition Information Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1997. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Albert J. and Roberta Wohlstetter papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Alternate Forms Available Digital copies of select records also available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org. 1912 Born, Duluth, Minnesota August 22 1930 Studied, Stanford University Summer 1931 Studied, Sorbonne, Paris Summer 1932 Studied, University of Heidelberg Summer 1933 B.A., Vassar College 1934-1935 Studied, Columbia University Law School 1936 M.A. in psychology, Columbia University 1937 M.A. in comparative literature, Radcliffe College 1937-1938 Teaching assistant, University of Southern California 1939 Married Albert Wohlstetter Early 1940s Taught at Barnard College Mid 1940s Taught at Howard University Attended Washington School of Psychiatry 1947-2002 Consultant, Rand Corporation, Social Science Department 1962 Author, Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision 1962 Awarded the Bancroft Prize in Diplomatic History 1963 Named the Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year 1965 Author (with Albert Wohlstetter), Controlling the Risks in Cuba 1965-1968? Taught at the University of Chicago 1970-2007 Member, Council on Foreign Relations (first woman to be invited to join) 1970-1971 Fellow, St. Hilda's College, Oxford, England Register of the Albert J. and 97076 2 Roberta Wohlstetter papers 1970-1992 Member, California Seminar on Arms Control and Foreign Policy (also known as California Seminar on International Security and Foreign Policy) 1979 Author (with Albert Wohlstetter), Swords from Plowshares: The Military Potential of Civilian Nuclear Energy 1979-1982 Member, Defense Science Board 1981-1985 Member, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Advisory Board, Ad Hoc Task Force on Terrorism 1982-1984 Consultant, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) 1985 Awarded (with Albert Wohlstetter) the Medal of Freedom by President Reagan November 1986-1989 Consultant, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy 1988-1998 Consultant to the Director, Net Assessment 1994-2007 Served on Board of Advisors, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) 1997 Awarded the Defense Special Weapons Agency Lifetime Achievement Medal 2007 Died, Manhattan, New York January 6 Scope and Content of Collection Speeches and writings, correspondence, notes, memoranda, reports, studies, and printed matter relating to American military and national security policy, nuclear warfare strategic planning, and nuclear proliferation issues. Includes the papers of Roberta Wohlstetter, wife of Albert J. Wohlstetter. Subjects and Indexing Terms Nuclear weapons United States -- Military policy United States -- Defenses Security, International box 1-61 CLOSED Speeches and Writings 1936-1996 Scope and Contents note Includes background materials consisting of charts, graphs, maps, and transparencies used for presentation; briefings by and for Albert Wohlstetter; conferences he attended arranged in a general section and conferences he participated in arranged thereafter in chronological order; interviews by and of him; letters to the editor and newspaper articles; notes, a unique feature of his papers, arranged in chronological order, including short articles characterized by him as 'notes'; research materials, including related correspondence and memoranda, notes, and some drafts possibly used in his writings; speeches, including conversations, telephone, and conference calls; statements and testimonies; and finally, his writings, all arranged alphabetically by physical form and thereunder chronologically. Background materials Charts Scope and Contents note Includes related materials General box 62, folder 1-4 General Scope and Contents note Includes materials relating to Albert Wohlstetter's typescript comments on "Combat Radii of Soviet Fighter Escorts and Backfire Bomber," 1982 September 10 box 62, folder 5-6 Briefing charts Scope and Contents note Includes an article by Brian Chow, 1982 June 25 Register of the Albert J. and 97076 3 Roberta Wohlstetter papers Speeches and Writings 1936-1996 box 62, folder 7 Former Yugoslavia – Population box 62, Nuclear weapons folder 8-11 Scope and Contents note Includes industrial targets box 63, folder 1-3 Persian Gulf War 1991 Scope and Contents note (Operation Desert Storm) box 63, folder 4 Plutonium box 63, folder 5 Soviet Union box 63, folder 6 United States - Armed forces - Appropriations and expenditures box 63, folder 7 United States. Army - Airborne troops box 63, folder 8 United States. Army - Equipment box 63, United States versus Soviet Union folder 9-13 Scope and Contents note Includes areas of defense spending and investment, airlift capacity, etc. box 64, folder 1-3 United States versus Soviet Union Scope and Contents note Includes areas of defense spending and investment, airlift capacity, etc. box 64, folder 4 Miscellany box 64, folder 5 Computer printouts Graphs box 64, folder 6 General box 64, folder 7 United States box 64, United States versus Soviet Union folder 8-10 Maps Scope and Contents note Includes related materials box 64, folder 11 General box 65, folder 1 General box 65, folder 2 Afghanistan box 65, folder 3 Backfire range box 65, folder 4 Balkan States box 65, folder 5-6 Bosnia box 65, folder 7 China box 65, folder 8 Contingency areas box 65, folder 9 Developing countries box 65, folder 10 Greece – Expansion box 65, folder 11 Indian Ocean box 66, folder 1 Iran-Iraq box 66, folder 2 Japan box 66, folder 3 Kabul (Afghanistan) box 66, folder 4 Korea (South) box 66, folder 5 Kuwait box 66, folder 6 Middle East box 66, folder 7 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (combat coverage) box 66, folder 8 Pakistan box 66, folder 9 Persian Gulf Region (air access, 1950s-1979) Register of the Albert J. and 97076 4 Roberta Wohlstetter papers Speeches and Writings 1936-1996 box 66, folder 10 Persian Gulf War 1991 Scope and Contents note (Operation Desert Storm) box 66, folder 11 Saudi Arabia box 66, folder 12 Serbia – Expansion box 66, folder 13 Soviet Union box 66, folder 14 Soviet Union - Armed forces (combat coverage) box 66, folder 15 Soviet Union. Voenno-Morskoi flot (Soviet Union. Navy) box 66, folder 16 Turkey box 66, folder 17 United States box 66, folder 18 Miscellany Transparencies General note See also Oversize File Scope and Contents note Includes related materials. box 66, folder 19 General box 66, folder 20 Developing countries – Defenses box 66, folder 21 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) box 66, folder 22 Soviet Union box 66, folder 23 Turkey box 66, folder 24 United Kingdom - Libya box 66, United States versus Soviet Union folder 25-26 box 66, folder 27 Miscellany box 67 Briefings Scope and Contents note Includes related materials. Typescript unless otherwise noted By Albert Wohlstetter Undated box 67, folder 1 Persian Gulf Scope and Contents note Holograph box 67, folder 2 RAND Cuban study (with Roberta Wohlstetter) Scope and Contents note Holograph box 67, folder 3 Military Advisory Group 1955 box 67, folder 4 AFDAP Committee (Kybal) 1955 September 27 box 67, folder 5 Major General Fred Smith, Ent Air Force Base, Colorado 1955 December 5-6. Scope and Contents note Includes holograph box 67, folder 6 Ramo-Wooldridge Pilot Study of Advanced Ballistic Missiles 1957 Critique on ORO-R-17 box 67, folder 7 Scientific Advisory Board 1958 March 21 box 67, folder 8 Board of Trustees 1958 March 27 box 67, folder 9 "Offense Study for General Cary," 1958 April 4. Scope and Contents note Includes revised? version, 1958 July 14, and holograph Register of the Albert J. and 97076 5 Roberta Wohlstetter papers Speeches and Writings 1936-1996 box 67, folder 10 SOFS 1959 September 17 box 67, folder 11 SRI-DEPEX 1965 September 16 box 67, folder 12 "Everybody's Tocqueville: Differences Making for Revolt," 1970? box 67, folder 13 AFAG, Tactical Studies Program 1971
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Albert Wohlstetter's Legacy: the Neo-Cons, Not Carter, Killed
    SPECIAL REPORT: NUCLEAR SABOTAGE ALBERT WOHLSTETTER’S LEGACY Wohlstetter was even stranger than the “Dr. Strangelove” depicted in the 1964 movie of that name. An early draft of the film was titled “The Delicate Balance of Terror,” the same title as Wohlstetter’s best-known unclassified work. Here, a still from the film. tives—Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, and Zalmay Khalilzad, to name a few. In Wohlstetter’s circle of influence were also Ahmed Chalabi (whom Wohlstetter championed), Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson (D-Wash.), Sen. Robert Dole (R- Kan.), and Margaret Thatcher. Wohlstetter himself was a follower of Bertrand Russell, not only in mathematics, but in world outlook. The pseudo-peacenik Russell had called for a preemptive strike against the Soviet Union, after World War II and before the Soviets developed the bomb, as a prelude to his plan for bully- ing nations into a one-world government. Russell, a raving Malthusian, opposed economic development, especially in the Third World. Admirer Jude Wanniski wrote of Wohlstetter in an obituary, “[I]t is no exaggeration, I think, to say that Wohlstetter was the most influential unknown man in the world for the past half century, and easily in the top ten in importance of all men.” “Albert’s decisions were not automat- ically made official policy at the White House,” Wanniski wrote, “but Albert’s The Neo-Cons, Not Carter, genius and his following were such in the places where it counted in the Establishment that if his views were Killed Nuclear Energy resisted for more than a few months, it
    [Show full text]
  • Discriminate Deterrence
    DISCRIMINATE DETERRENCE Report of The Commission On Integrated Long-Term Strategy Co -C. I lairmea: Fred C. lkle and Albert Wohlstetter Moither, Anne L. Annsinmg Andrew l. Goodraster flenry /1 Kissinger Zbign ei Brzezinski fames L. Holloway, Ur Joshua Lederberg William P. Clark Samuel P. Huntington Bernard A. Schriever tV. Graham Ciaytor, John W. Vessey January 1988 COMMISSION ON INTEGRATED LONG-TERM STRATEGY January 11. 1988 MEMORANDUM FOR: THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS We are pleased to present this final report of Our Commission. Pursuant to your initial mandate, the report proposes adjustments to US. military strategy in view of a changing security environment in the decades ahead. Over the last fifteen months the Commission has received valuable counsel from members of Congress, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Service Chiefs. and the Presdent's Science Advisor, Members of the National Security Council Staff, numerous professionals in the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency, and a broad range of specialists outside the government provided unstinting support. We are also indebted to the Commission's hardworking staff. The Commission was supported generously by several specialized study groups that closely analyzed a number of issues, among them: the security environment for the next twenty years, the role of advanced technology in military systems, interactions between offensive and defensive systems on the periphery of the Soviet Union, and the U.S, posture in regional conflicts around the world. Within the next few months, these study groups will publish detailed findings of their own.
    [Show full text]
  • Preempting Emergence: the Biological
    PRE-EMPTING EMERGENCE – THE BIOLOGICAL TURN IN THE WAR ON TERROR Melinda Cooper 2 In 2004, three years after the sporadic and still unresolved anthrax attacks that followed September 11, the Bush administration became the first in US history to implement a national defence strategy against biological threats. In the same year, US Congress also approved the largest ever funding project for biodefence research, to be carried out over the following decade. The legislation, going under the name of Project Bioshield, authorized $5.6 billion for the purchase and stockpiling of vaccines and drugs against bioterrorist threats, granted the government new authority to initiate research programs and special dispensation to override drug regulations in the face of a national emergency. At the same time, a more secretive initiative was underway to establish four research centres for the testing of biological weapons defences. The US, it seems, was preparing itself for an attack of epidemic proportions. But what exactly was the US arming itself against? In his public addresses on the topic, George Bush seemed unsure whether the deadliest threat would be more likely to emanate from a deliberate bioterrorist attack or from any one of the resurgent or drug-resistant infectious diseases that now regularly afflict urban hospitals. Official documents declared that infectious disease outbreak and bioterrorism should be treated as identical threats, in the absence of any sure means of distinguishing the two. The confusion was further reflected in the allocation of resources. Much of the new funding for biodefence went to institutions that had previously been engaged in public health and infectious disease research, while the ailing biotech start-ups of the genomics era were encouraged to reinvest their energies in the new arena of military applications.
    [Show full text]
  • Deception, Disinformation, and Strategic Communications: How One Interagency Group Made a Major Difference by Fletcher Schoen and Christopher J
    STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVES 11 Deception, Disinformation, and Strategic Communications: How One Interagency Group Made a Major Difference by Fletcher Schoen and Christopher J. Lamb Center for Strategic Research Institute for National Strategic Studies National Defense University Institute for National Strategic Studies National Defense University The Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) is National Defense University’s (NDU’s) dedicated research arm. INSS includes the Center for Strategic Research, Center for Complex Operations, Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs, Center for Technology and National Security Policy, Center for Transatlantic Security Studies, and Conflict Records Research Center. The military and civilian analysts and staff who comprise INSS and its subcomponents execute their mission by conducting research and analysis, publishing, and participating in conferences, policy support, and outreach. The mission of INSS is to conduct strategic studies for the Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Unified Combatant Commands in support of the academic programs at NDU and to perform outreach to other U.S. Government agencies and the broader national security community. Cover: Kathleen Bailey presents evidence of forgeries to the press corps. Credit: The Washington Times Deception, Disinformation, and Strategic Communications: How One Interagency Group Made a Major Difference Deception, Disinformation, and Strategic Communications: How One Interagency Group Made a Major Difference By Fletcher Schoen and Christopher J. Lamb Institute for National Strategic Studies Strategic Perspectives, No. 11 Series Editor: Nicholas Rostow National Defense University Press Washington, D.C. June 2012 Opinions, conclusions, and recommendations expressed or implied within are solely those of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Defense Department or any other agency of the Federal Government.
    [Show full text]
  • Copyright by Paul Harold Rubinson 2008
    Copyright by Paul Harold Rubinson 2008 The Dissertation Committee for Paul Harold Rubinson certifies that this is the approved version of the following dissertation: Containing Science: The U.S. National Security State and Scientists’ Challenge to Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War Committee: —————————————————— Mark A. Lawrence, Supervisor —————————————————— Francis J. Gavin —————————————————— Bruce J. Hunt —————————————————— David M. Oshinsky —————————————————— Michael B. Stoff Containing Science: The U.S. National Security State and Scientists’ Challenge to Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War by Paul Harold Rubinson, B.A.; M.A. Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Texas at Austin August 2008 Acknowledgements Thanks first and foremost to Mark Lawrence for his guidance, support, and enthusiasm throughout this project. It would be impossible to overstate how essential his insight and mentoring have been to this dissertation and my career in general. Just as important has been his camaraderie, which made the researching and writing of this dissertation infinitely more rewarding. Thanks as well to Bruce Hunt for his support. Especially helpful was his incisive feedback, which both encouraged me to think through my ideas more thoroughly, and reined me in when my writing overshot my argument. I offer my sincerest gratitude to the Smith Richardson Foundation and Yale University International Security Studies for the Predoctoral Fellowship that allowed me to do the bulk of the writing of this dissertation. Thanks also to the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale University, and John Gaddis and the incomparable Ann Carter-Drier at ISS.
    [Show full text]
  • The Organizational Process and Bureaucratic Politics Paradigms: Retrospect and Prospect Author(S): David A
    The Organizational Process and Bureaucratic Politics Paradigms: Retrospect and Prospect Author(s): David A. Welch Source: International Security , Fall, 1992, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Fall, 1992), pp. 112-146 Published by: The MIT Press Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2539170 REFERENCES Linked references are available on JSTOR for this article: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2539170?seq=1&cid=pdf- reference#references_tab_contents You may need to log in to JSTOR to access the linked references. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms The MIT Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to International Security This content downloaded from 209.6.197.28 on Wed, 07 Oct 2020 15:39:26 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms The Organizational David A. Welch Process and Bureaucratic Politics Paradigms Retrospect and Prospect 1991 marked the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Graham Allison's Essence of De- cision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. ' The influence of this work has been felt far beyond the study of international politics. Since 1971, it has been cited in over 1,100 articles in journals listed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, in every periodical touching political science, and in others as diverse as The American Journal of Agricultural Economics and The Journal of Nursing Adminis- tration.
    [Show full text]
  • Strategic Posture Commission
    Perry and Schlesinger and Perry America’s Strategic Posture Americ a’s ow to secure the nuclear peace remains one of the most profound questions of the modern era. Twenty years after the end of the Cold War Hand with the arrival of a new administration in Washington, it is time to think through fundamental questions about the purposes of nuclear deterrence Strategic and the character of the U.S. strategic posture. While the existential threat to the United States has decreased, the rising threat of catastrophic terrorism, the possession and spread of nuclear weapons by other states, and a general worldwide nuclear renaissance continue to influence decisions about America’s Posture strategic posture. Recognizing the changing character of these threats, Congress formed a The Final Report of the commission in 2008 to examine the United States’ long-term strategic posture and make recommendations. For more than eleven months this bipartisan Congressional Commission commission of leading experts on national security, arms control, and nuclear America’s Strategic Posture technology met with Congressional leaders, military officers, high-level officials of several countries, arms control groups, and technical experts to assess the on the Strategic Posture appropriate roles for nuclear weapons, nonproliferation programs, and missile defenses. This official edition contains a discussion of key questions and issues of the United States as well as the Commission’s findings and recommendations for tailoring U.S. strategic posture to new and emerging requirements
    [Show full text]
  • Downloaded April 22, 2006
    SIX DECADES OF GUIDED MUNITIONS AND BATTLE NETWORKS: PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS Barry D. Watts Thinking Center for Strategic Smarter and Budgetary Assessments About Defense www.csbaonline.org Six Decades of Guided Munitions and Battle Networks: Progress and Prospects by Barry D. Watts Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments March 2007 ABOUT THE CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND BUDGETARY ASSESSMENTS The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) is an independent, nonprofit, public policy research institute established to make clear the inextricable link between near-term and long- range military planning and defense investment strategies. CSBA is directed by Dr. Andrew F. Krepinevich and funded by foundations, corporations, government, and individual grants and contributions. This report is one in a series of CSBA analyses on the emerging military revolution. Previous reports in this series include The Military-Technical Revolution: A Preliminary Assessment (2002), Meeting the Anti-Access and Area-Denial Challenge (2003), and The Revolution in War (2004). The first of these, on the military-technical revolution, reproduces the 1992 Pentagon assessment that precipitated the 1990s debate in the United States and abroad over revolutions in military affairs. Many friends and professional colleagues, both within CSBA and outside the Center, have contributed to this report. Those who made the most substantial improvements to the final manuscript are acknowledged below. However, the analysis and findings are solely the responsibility of the author and CSBA. 1667 K Street, NW, Suite 900 Washington, DC 20036 (202) 331-7990 CONTENTS ACKNOWLEGEMENTS .................................................. v SUMMARY ............................................................... ix GLOSSARY ………………………………………………………xix I. INTRODUCTION ..................................................... 1 Guided Munitions: Origins in the 1940s............. 3 Cold War Developments and Prospects ............
    [Show full text]
  • Suspected Soviet Cell Wrote Reagan's Long-Term Strategy
    Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 15, Number 23, June 3, 1988 �TIillFeature Suspected Soviet cell wrote Reagan's long-tenn strategy by Jeffrey Steinberg A tightly organized cell of suspected Soviet moles wrote the Reagan administra­ tion's "semi-official" long-term strategy for dealing with the U.S.S.R. and also played a major hand in drafting the disastrous Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force (INF) treaty that a deluded President Reagan now hopes will earn him and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachov the Nobel Peace Prize. As shocking as this may sound, Dr. Albert Wohlstetter and Dr. Fred Ikle, the two principal authors of the presidential report, Discriminate Deterrence. have beenidentified to this news service by highly reliabJe U.S. intelligence sources as prime suspects in a Soviet-Israeli "false flag" spy ring first exposed with the November 1985 arrest of Jonathan Jay Pollard and the December 1987 arrest of Shabtai Kalmanowitch. On Feb. 19, 1988, Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodwardpublished a front-page story detailing the Pentagon and CIA's futile search for "Mr. X," the designation for a high-level intelligence community mole who was believed to be providing Pollard with top secret code numbers of classified military documents that Pollard, a counterterrorist analyst at a Naval Investigative Service facility in Suitland, Md., would then pilfer and pass on to Israeli and Soviet intelligence. Shabtai Kalmanowitch, a Russian-born Israeli multi-millionaire, soon to be tried in Israel as a KGB spy, is widely believed to have been one of the Israel-Soviet "back channels" through which the "Mr.
    [Show full text]
  • Manhattan Project Spies and Oak Ridge, Part 1 (As Published in the Oak Ridger’S Historically Speaking Column on December 1, 2014)
    Manhattan Project Spies and Oak Ridge, part 1 (As published in The Oak Ridger’s Historically Speaking column on December 1, 2014) This is the first in a series of four Historically Speaking columns on Manhattan Project spies with connections to Oak Ridge. For many years, I was not sure that any spies were actually in Oak Ridge. Bill Wilcox and I discussed this at length and he too was doubtful at that time. Even though some names were mentioned, evidence seemed lacking. However, of late, so much additional information has been declassified and made available to the public regarding those activities of some 65 – 70 years ago. Much more is now known regarding the detailed activities of those who passed sensitive classified information to the Russians during the Manhattan Project. We will look first at George Koval, next at Klaus Fuchs and finally at Al Slack. Recently there seems to be more and more information coming available about spies during the Manhattan Project. The Spy Who Stole The Urchin: George Koval’s Infiltration of the Manhattan Project by Owen N. Pagano, an Atomic Heritage Foundation intern, posted on the Atomic Heritage Foundation’s web site: http://www.atomicheritage.org/ is the most recent information I have seen about George Koval. Koval is the ONLY official Soviet spy known to have infiltrated the Manhattan Project and the early Cold War era developments. His deep penetration only came to light in the recent past after over 50 years of obscurity. Some of the most notable spies were: George Koval; Theodore “Ted” Hall who was never caught; David Greenglass; Ethel and Julius Rosenberg; Harry Gold; and Klaus Fuchs.
    [Show full text]
  • Neoconservatism Hoover Press : Berkowitz/Conservative Hberkc Ch5 Mp 104 Rev1 Page 104 Hoover Press : Berkowitz/Conservative Hberkc Ch5 Mp 105 Rev1 Page 105
    Hoover Press : Berkowitz/Conservative hberkc ch5 Mp_103 rev1 page 103 part iii Neoconservatism Hoover Press : Berkowitz/Conservative hberkc ch5 Mp_104 rev1 page 104 Hoover Press : Berkowitz/Conservative hberkc ch5 Mp_105 rev1 page 105 chapter five The Neoconservative Journey Jacob Heilbrunn The Neoconservative Conspiracy The longer the United States struggles to impose order in postwar Iraq, the harsher indictments of the George W. Bush administration’s foreign policy are becoming. “Acquiring additional burdens by engag- ing in new wars of liberation is the last thing the United States needs,” declared one Bush critic in Foreign Affairs. “The principal problem is the mistaken belief that democracy is a talisman for all the world’s ills, and that the United States has a responsibility to promote dem- ocratic government wherever in the world it is lacking.”1 Does this sound like a Democratic pundit bashing Bush for par- tisan gain? Quite the contrary. The swipe came from Dimitri Simes, president of the Nixon Center and copublisher of National Interest. Simes is not alone in calling on the administration to reclaim the party’s pre-Reagan heritage—to abandon the moralistic, Wilsonian, neoconservative dream of exporting democracy and return to a more limited and realistic foreign policy that avoids the pitfalls of Iraq. 1. Dimitri K. Simes, “America’s Imperial Dilemma,” Foreign Affairs (Novem- ber/December 2003): 97, 100. Hoover Press : Berkowitz/Conservative hberkc ch5 Mp_106 rev1 page 106 106 jacob heilbrunn In fact, critics on the Left and Right are remarkably united in their assessment of the administration. Both believe a neoconservative cabal has hijacked the administration’s foreign policy and has now overplayed its hand.
    [Show full text]
  • Peace Studies Program
    CORNELL UNIVERSITY PEACE STUDIES PROGRAM Occasional Papers COMMERCIAL NUCLEAR POWER AND NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION by Steven J. Baker Number 5 Commercial Nuclear Power and Nuclear Proliferation Steven J. Baker Research Associate Peace Studies Program Cornell University PEACE STUDIES PROGRAM OCCASIONAL PAPER NO. 5 May 1975 Steven J. Baker holds a doctorate in political science from the University of California at Los Angeles. Dr. Baker's paper was written while he was a post-doctoral Research Associate of the Peace Studies Program of Cornell University's Center for International Studies. Commercia1 Nuclear Power and Nuclear Proliferation INTRODUCTION In the last year concern has grown over the implica­ tions of nuclear energy exports: intense competition among advanced industrial countries to export nuclear reactors, fuels, and fuel processing facilities has increased fears about accelerating the acquisition of nuclear weapons capabilities in Third World countries. This concern has reportedly generated an examination of the possibility of a common approach to the problem of nuclear exports on the part of some of the nuclear exporting nations—the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, France, West Germany, Canada, Japan, and Italy. In the United States, congressional concern has resulted in a proposal to revise the standards and procedures govern­ ing nuclear exports. Opposition to these unilateral restric­ tions is strong in various parts of the bureaucracy, in the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, and in the nuclear industry. This paper surveys the development of the international nuclear energy market, with particular reference to America's role in this process. The emphasis is on the interplay between the commercial promotion of nuclear energy and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, between domestic and foreign policies, and the implications of domestic energy policy choices for future nuclear weapons proliferation.
    [Show full text]