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Roberta Wohlstetter Bibliography

This entry indexes the earlier two entries on Roberta Mary Morgan Wohlstetter’s published writings: Roberta Wohlstetter’s Pre-RAND Writings (1936-1939) Roberta Wohlstetter’s Writings (1958-1991) As an alternative, I’ve also provided below a straight-up list of Roberta’s published works (sans the commentary … Continue reading

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Albert Wohlstetter’s Writings (1990-1997)

Today’s entry provides a list of Albert Wohlstetter’s published writings from 1990 to 1997. During the last decade of his life, Wohlstetter remained remarkably active despite his age. (In December 1990, he had celebrated his 77th birthday.) In the early … Continue reading

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Albert Wohlstetter’s Writings (1980-1989)

This latest installment provides a partial list of Albert Wohlstetter’s published (and a few unpublished) writings from 1980 to 1989. The 1980s marked Wohlstetter’s fourth decade in the field of nuclear-age strategy. Although he had already passed the age of … Continue reading

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Albert Wohlstetter’s Writings (1970-1979)

This latest installment provides a very partial list of Albert Wohlstetter’s writings from 1970 to 1979. During this decade, Albert’s work in strategy covered a broad range of topics, such as (but certainly not limited to): debates over the anti-ballistic … Continue reading

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Albert Wohlstetter’s Writings (1960-1969)

During the 1950s Albert Wohlstetter, by that time a middle-aged man in his early forties, quietly established himself as one America’s premier defense analysts through his RAND Corporation studies on SAC basing and nuclear-age deterrence. But he didn’t become widely … Continue reading

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Albert Wohlstetter’s RAND Writings (1951-1959)

This next installment provides a list of Albert Wohlstetter’s writings at the RAND Corporation during the 1950s. Again, as with the list of Wohlstetter’s pre-RAND writings, this list isn’t comprehensive. But it is the best chronological bibliography of Albert’s 1950s … Continue reading

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Albert Wohlstetter’s Pre-RAND Writings (1936-1940)

This latest installment provides a list of Albert Wohlstetter’s works written prior to February 1951, when Albert first joined the RAND Corporation. Although this list isn’t comprehensive, it does give a good sense of the sorts of things that interested … Continue reading

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Roberta Wohlstetter’s Writings (1958-1991)

This latest installment provides a list of Roberta Morgan Wohlstetter’s published (and a few unpublished) writings from 1958 to 1991. Although Roberta Wohlstetter is best remembered for Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision, her 1962 Bancroft Prize-winning examination of the failures … Continue reading

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Roberta Wohlstetter’s Pre-RAND Writings (1936-1939)

One of several things I plan on doing with this website is to provide the fullest bibliographies of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter’s published — and unpublished — writings, as well as links to, or electronic copies of, what writings I … Continue reading

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The Wohlstetters on the military potential of civil nuclear energy

During the early 1970s the US nuclear industry was keen to promote reprocessing, through which plutonium is separated from spent nuclear reactor fuel and then fabricated into new fuel — either plutonium fuel or mixed plutonium oxide/uranium oxide (MOX) fuel. … Continue reading

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