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War on the Rocks
October 19, 2017
In one sense, the famous nuclear strategist Albert Wohlstetter started it. His 1958 RAND paper on the 'Delicate Balance of Terror' argued that ...
Los Angeles Times
August 3, 2017
Albert Wohlstetter was an influential nuclear strategist during the Cold War. Roberta Wohlstetter's analysis of the intelligence failures before the ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
May 12, 2017
Albert Wohlstetter, a prominent American nuclear strategist of that era, argued that conventional precision missiles could offer an alternative to ...
Curbed LA
April 12, 2017
A national security advisor to every president from Eisenhower to Reagan, Albert Wohlstetter was one of the inspirations for Stanley Kubrick's ...
Scientific American (blog)
March 9, 2017
When she and her husband, RAND nuclear strategist Albert Wohlstetter, received the Medal of Freedom from President Reagan in 1985, ...
Chronicle of Higher Education
December 11, 2016
One of the few things that Robin could have investigated more is how Albert Wohlstetter, who spent most of his career at the University of ...
The New Yorker
November 7, 2016
Among the participants Life enlisted were the historian Clinton Rossiter, the evangelist Billy Graham, the nuclear strategist Albert Wohlstetter, ...
New York Times
October 21, 2016
Albert Wohlstetter, an analyst at the RAND Corporation, was one of the most formidable of the nuclear policy savants. A combative champion of ...
BillMoyers.com
October 4, 2016
The result owed less to early Cold War thinkers-of-the-unthinkable like Herman Kahn or Albert Wohlstetter, who created the field of nuclear ...
ArmsControlWonk.com
May 12, 2009
Albert Wohlstetter worked at the RAND Corporation in the 1950s and 1960s where his analyses of surprise attack scenarios and the “delicate ...
Los Angeles Times
August 3, 2017
Albert Wohlstetter was an influential nuclear strategist during the Cold War. Roberta Wohlstetter's analysis of the intelligence failures before theÃÂ ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
May 12, 2017
Albert Wohlstetter, a prominent American nuclear strategist of that era, argued that conventional precision missiles could offer an alternative toÃÂ ...
Curbed LA
April 12, 2017
A national security advisor to every president from Eisenhower to Reagan, Albert Wohlstetter was one of the inspirations for Stanley Kubrick'sÃÂ ...
Scientific American (blog)
March 9, 2017
When she and her husband, RAND nuclear strategist Albert Wohlstetter, received the Medal of Freedom from President Reagan in 1985,ÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 13, 2016
... he took his place as a leading theorist of nuclear war and peace along with the RAND intellectuals Herman Kahn and Albert Wohlstetter,ÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
November 7, 2016
Among the participants Life enlisted were the historian Clinton Rossiter, the evangelist Billy Graham, the nuclear strategist Albert Wohlstetter,ÃÂ ...
New York Times
October 21, 2016
Albert Wohlstetter, an analyst at the RAND Corporation, was one of the most formidable of the nuclear policy savants. A combative champion ofÃÂ ...
ArmsControlWonk.com
May 12, 2009
Albert Wohlstetter worked at the RAND Corporation in the 1950s and 1960s where his analyses of surprise attack scenarios and the “delicateÃÂ ...
Scientific American (blog)
March 9, 2017
When she and her husband, RAND nuclear strategist Albert Wohlstetter, received the Medal of Freedom from President Reagan in 1985, he remarked that as a woman in a male-dominated field she had been "a generation ahead of her time.
CSS Resources (blog)
January 6, 2017
... of surprise attack. Building on earlier work done at RAND on the "prisoner's dilemma" and on Albert Wohlstetter's arguments about the dangerous vulnerability of American air bases, Tom realized that wedding both produced further policy-relevant ...
Minnesota Public Radio News
December 28, 2016
Yet RAND Corp. experts like Bernard Brodie, Albert Wohlstetter and Herman Kahn sought to impose rationality on nuclear war planning.
War on the Rocks
December 28, 2016
... of surprise attack. Building on earlier work done at RAND on the "prisoner's dilemma" and on Albert Wohlstetter's arguments about the dangerous vulnerability of American air bases, Tom realized that wedding both produced further policy-relevant ...
WCQS
December 27, 2016
Yet RAND Corp. experts like Bernard Brodie, Albert Wohlstetter and Herman Kahn sought to impose rationality on nuclear war planning.
The News International
December 13, 2016
How a nuclear war can be kept non-suicidal against limited aggression by the enemy has been the main challenge confronting the nuclear scholars, such as Bernard Brodie, Lawrence Freedman, Herman Kahn, Thomas Shelling, and Albert Wohlstetter.
New York Times
December 13, 2016
... "The Strategy of Conflict" (1960), he took his place as a leading theorist of nuclear war and peace along with the RAND intellectuals Herman Kahn and Albert Wohlstetter, as well as Henry A. Kissinger, the director of the Defense Studies Center at ...
ArmsControlWonk.com
December 8, 2016
The absence of military rationales for the current size of the U.S. arsenal is an indicator of how far we have traveled since the days when Schlesinger, Paul Nitze, Albert Wohlstetter and others postulated theories of victory even in massive nuclear ...
New York Times
October 21, 2016
Albert Wohlstetter, an analyst at the RAND Corporation, was one of the most formidable of the nuclear policy savants. A combative champion of defense spending, he argued that the balance of terror inherent in MAD was unstable.
Chandigarh Tribune
October 9, 2016
Mr. Albert Wohlstetter, an official of the Ran Corporation which carried out a nuclear defence study for the U.S. Government, urged creation of such a system to fend off any possible attack from China.
Mother Jones
October 8, 2016
The result owed less to early Cold War thinkers-of-the-unthinkable like Herman Kahn or Albert Wohlstetter, who created the field of nuclear strategy, than to Dr.
AlterNet (blog)
October 6, 2016
The result owed less to early Cold War thinkers-of-the-unthinkable like Herman Kahn or Albert Wohlstetter, who created the field of nuclear strategy, than to Dr.
Lewiston Sun Journal
September 10, 2016
Explaining its effects, the strategist Albert Wohlstetter had written an essay for The Wall Street Journal titled "The Fax Will Make You Free.
CounterCurrents.org
March 16, 2016
Empirical record shows that nuclear weapons have not been employed after 1945. However, in many crises and wars in history, there were possibilities when nuclear weapons could have been used without fear of retaliation.
Socialist Worker Online
March 8, 2016
Paul Wolfowitz received his introduction to Washington as a graduate assistant to defense intellectual (and former Trotskyist) Albert Wohlstetter, who served as an adviser to Jackson. The neocon hawks first roosted in the Committee for the Present ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
January 28, 2016
The goal behind these arguments was to establish what the eminent RAND systems theorist Albert Wohlstetter called "the delicate balance of terror.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
January 29, 2016
The goal behind these arguments was to establish what the eminent RAND systems theorist Albert Wohlstetter called "the delicate balance of terror.
