Roberta Wohlstetter Bibliography

This entry indexes the earlier two entries on Roberta Mary Morgan Wohlstetter’s published writings:

As an alternative, I’ve also provided below a straight-up list of Roberta’s published works (sans the commentary that is available in the links above).

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

  • Roberta Morgan, One Approach to the Problem of Institutional Behavior of Delinquent Women, MA thesis, Department of Psychology, Columbia University, January 1936.
  • Roberta Morgan and Albert Wohlstetter, “Observations on ‘Prufrock’,” Harvard Advocate, Vol. 85, No. 3 (December 1938), pp. 27-40.
  • Roberta Morgan, “The Philosophic Basis of Coleridge’s Hamlet Criticism,” English Literary History, Vol. 6, No. 4 (December 1939), pp. 256-270.
  • Roberta Morgan, “Some Stoic Lines in Hamlet and the Problem of
    Interpretation,” Philological Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 4 (October
    1941).

Roberta Wohlstetter’s Writings (1958-1991)

  • Roberta Wohlstetter, Signals and Decisions at Pearl Harbor, R-331 (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1958).
  • Roberta Wohlstetter, Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1962).
  • Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, Notes on the Cuban Crisis: On the Importance of Overseas Bases in the 1960’s, Offense-Defense Semantics, Keeping Open Possible Aid to Cuban Resistance, D(L)-10647-ISA (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, October 28, 1962). HTML version available online at the RAND Corporation’s website.
  • Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, Studies for a Post-Communist Cuba, D(L)-11060-ISA (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, February 25. 1963). HTML version available online at the RAND Corporation’s website.
  • Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, On Dealing with Castro’s Cuba, Part I, D-17906-ISA (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, January 16, 1965). HTML version available online at the RAND Corporation’s website.
  • Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, Controlling the Risks in Cuba, Adelphi Papers No. 17 (London, UK: Institute for Strategic Studies, April 1965).
  • Roberta Wohlstetter, “Cuba and Pearl Harbor: Hindsight and Foresight,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 43, No. 4(July 1965), pp. 691-707.
  • Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, The State of Strategic Studies in Japan, India, [and] Israel: April 1966, report prepared for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, July 1966.
  • Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, Metaphors and Models: Inequalities and Disorder at Home and Abroad, D-17664-RC/ISA (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, August 27, 1968). HTML version available online at the RAND Corporation’s website.
  • Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, “‘Third Worlds’ Abroad and at Home,” The Public Interest. No. 14 (Winter 1969), pp. 88-107.
  • Roberta Wohlstetter, Cuban Tales and Details, Part II: The 1970 Harvest and US Cuban Policy, IN-21125-SX (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, August 27, 1970).
  • Roberta Wohlstetter, “Kidnapping to Win Friends and Influence People,” Survey, Vol. 93, No. 4 (Autumn 1974), pp. 1-40.
  • Albert Wohlstetter, Thomas Brown, Gregory Jones, David McGarvey, Robert Raab, Arthur Steiner, Roberta Wohlstetter and Zivia Wurtele, The Strategic Competition: Perceptions and Response, final report for the Director of Defense Research and Engineering (Net Technical Assessment), DAHC 15-73-C-0137 (Los Angeles, CA: PAN Heuristics, January 14, 1975). PDF version available online at Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com.
  • Albert Wohlstetter, Thomas Brown, Gregory Jones, David McGarvey, Robert Raab, Arthur Steiner, Roberta Wohlstetter and Zivia Wurtele, Methods That Obscure and Methods That Clarify the Strategic Competition, final report for the Director of Defense Research and Engineering (Net Technical Assessment), DAHC 15-73-C-0074 (Los Angeles, CA: PAN Heuristics, June 30, 1975). PDF version available online at Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com.
  • Albert Wohlstetter, Thomas Brown, Gregory Jones, David McGarvey, Henry Rowen, Vincent Taylor and Roberta Wohlstetter, Moving Toward Life in a Nuclear Armed Crowd?, final report prepared for the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in fulfillment of ACDA/PAB-263, PH76-04-389-14 (Los Angeles, CA: PAN Heuristics, December 4, 1975 [revised April 22, 1976]). PDF version available online at Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com.
  • Roberta Wohlstetter, “Terror on a Grand Scale,” Survival, Vol. 18, No. 3 (May/June 1976), pp. 98-104.
  • Roberta Wohlstetter, The Buddha Smiles: Absent-Minded Peaceful Aid and the Indian Bomb, in Albert Wohlstetter, et al., Can We Make Nuclear Power Compatible with Limiting the Spread of Nuclear Weapons?, Vol. II-1, draft final report prepared for the US Energy Research and Development Administration in partial fulfillment of E(49-1)-3747, PH-78-04-370-23 (Los Angeles, CA: PAN Heuristics, November 15, 1976 [revised November 1977]). PDF version available online at Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com.
  • Roberta Wohlstetter, “US Peaceful Aid and the Indian Bomb,” in Albert Wohlstetter, et al., eds., Nuclear Policies: Fuel Without the Bomb (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing, 1978). Reprinted in Robert Zarate and Henry Sokolski, eds., Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter (Strategic Studies Institute, 2009).
  • Albert Wohlstetter, Thomas Brown, Gregory Jones, David McGarvey, Henry Rowen, Vincent Taylor and Roberta Wohlstetter, Swords from Plowshares: The Military Potential of Civilian Nuclear Energy (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1979).
  • Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, Gregory S. Jones and Henry S. Rowen, Towards a New Consensus on Nuclear Technology, Vol. 1 (of 2), a report prepared for the Arms Control Disarmament Agency in fulfillment of AC7NC106, PH-78-04-832-33 (Los Angeles, CA: Pan Heuristics, July 6, 1979). PDF version available online at Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com. Excerpt on “Signals, Noise and [the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty’s] Article IV” published for the first time in Robert Zarate and Henry Sokolski, eds., Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter (Strategic Studies Institute, 2009).
  • Roberta Wohlstetter, “The Pleasures of Self-Deception,” Washington Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Autumn 1979), pp. 54-63.
  • Roberta Wohlstetter, “Slow Pearl Harbours and the Pleasures of Deception,” in Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr., Uri Ra’anan and Warren Milberg, eds., Intelligence Policy and National Security (Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1981).
  • Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, Responding to Ambiguous Signals of Soviet Imminent or Future Power Projection, Vol. 1: Overview, draft final report in partial fulfillment of DNA001-80-C-0369, PH-82-5-0369-67-I (Marina del Rey, CA: PAN Heuristics, May 1982).
  • Roberta Wohlstetter, Warning and No Response (Los Angeles, CA: PAN Heuristics, April 1985).
  • Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, “On Arms Control: What We Should Look for in an Arms Agreement,” unpublished draft essay, May 20, 1985, available from the Hoover Institution Archive, Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter Papers, Notes, Box 118, Folder 16. Published for the first time in Robert Zarate and Henry Sokolski, eds., Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter (Strategic Studies Institute, 2009).
  • Roberta Wohlstetter, “From Pearl Harbor to the Gulf: When to Worry,” Wall Street Journal, December 5, 1991, p. A14

Updated June 3, 2015.