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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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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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Wohlstetter book republishes Albert’s “Nuclear Sharing: NATO and the N+1 Country” (1961)
FYI, Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, the new volume that I edited with NPEC executive director Henry Sokolski, has made available online the following, very-difficult-to-find essay: Albert Wohlstetter, “Nuclear Sharing: NATO and the N+1 Country,” Foreign … 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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Soviet view of RMA circa 1973
Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com, a project of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC), is making the following writing available online for (what appears to be) the first time: Colonel General N. A. Lomov, ed., Scientific-Technical Progress and the Revolution 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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Nuclear Heuristics: Table of Contents
Robert Zarate and Henry Sokolski, eds, Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter (Strategic Studies Institute, 2009). About the Book Table of Contents Preface (2009) by Henry Sokolski Acknowledgments (2009) Introduction: Albert & Roberta Wohlstetter on Nuclear-Age Strategy … Continue reading
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Nuclear Heuristics: About the Book
Robert Zarate and Henry Sokolski, eds, Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter (Strategic Studies Institute, 2009). Table of Contents About the Book Pioneers of nuclear-age policy analysis, Albert Wohlstetter (1913-1997) and Roberta Wohlstetter (1912-2007) emerged as two … Continue reading
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Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com releases draft LRRDPP summary report (1974)
Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com, a project of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, is making available a PDF (5.5 MB) of a 1974 draft summary report for study, jointly sponsored by the Pentagon’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) and Defense Nuclear … Continue reading
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Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com releases report, Self-Defense Zones in Space (1986)
Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com, a project of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, is making available a PDF (22.7 MB) of Wohlstetter and Chow’s 1986 PAN Heuristics study on self-defense zones in space: Albert Wohlstetter and Brian G. Chow, Self-Defense Zones … Continue reading
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