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Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter (2009)
Edited by Robert Zarate and Henry Sokolski, with commentaries by Henry S. Rowen, Alain C. Enthoven, Richard Perle, Stephen J. Lukasik, and Andrew W. Marshall.
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Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision (1962) by Roberta Wohlstetter
Swords from Plowshares: The Military Potential of Civil Nuclear Energy (1979) by Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, Henry Rowen, et al.
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The Multilateral Force (MLF): Tom Lehrer’s and Albert Wohlstetter’s respective critiques
When I brought up Albert Wohlstetter‘s sharp criticisms of the Multilateral Force (MLF) nuclear weapons-sharing proposal during a dinner with colleagues last week (yes, I know, I’m an absolutely delightful dinner conversationalist…), my friend James urged me to look up … Continue reading
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Video: Wohlstetter book event at Hudson Institute
Now available: Raw video of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter’s Writings and the Future of U.S. National Strategy, a panel hosted by the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) and Hudson Institute to discuss the continuing relevance of the recently released book, … Continue reading
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Upcoming NPEC/Hudson Institute panel on the Wohlstetters’ writings and U.S. national security strategy’s future
The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and Hudson Institute present a special panel, Albert & Roberta Wohlstetter’s Writings and the Future of U.S. National Security Strategy. Date/Time: Monday, February 23, 2009, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. Location: Betsy and Walter … Continue reading
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Excerpt on nuclear nonproliferation from Wohlstetter book’s introduction
Here’s another excerpt from “Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter on Nuclear-Age Strategy,” Robert Zarate’s introductory essay to Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter (2009). This excerpt looks at the Wohlstetters’ impact on nuclear nonproliferation issues. For more, see … Continue reading
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Excerpt on nuclear deterrence in the 1950s from Wohlstetter book’s introduction
What follows below is a modified excerpt from “Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter on Nuclear-Age Strategy,” Robert Zarate’s introductory essay to Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter (2009). This excerpt excludes supporting endnotes; to read the introduction in … Continue reading
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Wohlstetter book now available
Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, edited by Robert Zarate and Henry Sokolski (Strategic Studies Institute, January 26, 2009), with commentaries by Henry S. Rowen, Alain C. Enthoven, Richard Perle, Stephen J. Lukasik and Andrew W. Marshall. … Continue reading
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Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com releases report, Protecting U.S. Power to Strike Back in the 1950s and 1960s (R-290: 1956)
Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com, a project of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, is making available a PDF (13.3 MB) of the Wohlstetter-led Vulnerability Study: Albert Wohlstetter, Fred S. Hoffman and Henry S. Rowen, Protecting U.S. Power to Strike Back in … Continue reading
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NPEC releases “Nuclear Triggers and Safety Catches, the FSU and the FSRs (1992)”
The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) is making a PDF of the following unpublished note by Albert Wohlstetter publicly available for the first time: Albert Wohlstetter, “Nuclear Triggers and Safety Catches, the ‘FSU’ and the ‘FSRs’,” unpublished note, February 6, … Continue reading
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Albert Wohlstetter on the myth of spiraling arms races, and realities of strategic competition
This morning, the Washington Post published Richard Perle’s op-ed, “The Arms Race Myth, Again,” which cites Albert Wohlstetter’s 1976 essay, “Racing Forward? Or Ambling Back?” In the mid-1970s, Wohlstetter and a team of researchers at PAN Heuristics conducted a series … Continue reading
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