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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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On the forthcoming Wohlstetter edited volume

Although I regret the lack of postings since April 20, 2008, that down time let me finish work on a project directly relevant to Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com. I am delighted to write that Henry Sokolski, my boss at the … Continue reading

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NPEC releases report, Moving Toward Life in a Nuclear Armed Crowd? (1975)

The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) is making available a PDF of the following Wohlstetter writing: Albert Wohlstetter, Thomas Brown, Gregory Jones, David McGarvey, Henry Rowen, Vincent Taylor and Roberta Wohlstetter, Moving Toward Life in a Nuclear Armed Crowd?, PH76-04-389-14, … Continue reading

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Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com releases report, Selection of Strategic Air Bases (R-244-S: 1953)

Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com, a project of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, is making available a PDF of the following Wohlstetter writing: Albert Wohlstetter, Fred S. Hoffman, Robert J. Lutz and Henry S. Rowen, Selection of Strategic Air Bases, special … 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The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) is making a PDF of the following unpublished note by Albert Wohlstetter publicly available for the first time: Albert Wohlstetter, “Nuclear Triggers and Safety Catches, the ‘FSU’ and the ‘FSRs’,” unpublished note, February 6, … Continue reading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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Roberta Wohlstetter’s The Buddha Smiles (1977) and the new U.S.-India civil nuclear deal

As the Executive Branch attempts to bend American and international law to permit a new agreement for U.S. civil nuclear cooperation with India, proponents and opponents of this controversial nuclear deal would do well to read The Buddha Smiles: Absent-Minded … Continue reading

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NPEC releases report, The Buddha Smiles (1977)

The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) is making a PDF of the following Wohlstetter writing publicly available for the first time: Roberta Wohlstetter, The Buddha Smiles: Absent-Minded Peaceful Aid and the Indian Bomb, in Albert Wohlstetter, et al., Can We … Continue reading

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NPEC releases report, Towards a New Consensus in Nuclear Techology, Vol. 1 (1979)

The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) is making a PDF of the following Wohlstetter writing publicly available for the first time: Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, Gregory S. Jones and Henry S. Rowen, Towards a New Consensus on Nuclear Technology, Vol. … Continue reading

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Albert Wohlstetter Bibliography

This entry indexes the earlier six entries on Albert James Wohlstetter’s published writings: Albert Wohlstetter’s Pre-RAND Writings (1936-1940) Albert Wohlstetter’s RAND Writings (1951-1959) Albert Wohlstetter’s Writings (1960-1969) Albert Wohlstetter’s Writings (1970-1979) Albert Wohlstetter’s Writings (1980-1989) Albert Wohlstetter’s Writings (1990-1997) As … Continue reading

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