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The [[Gaither Committee]] was appointed by US President Dwight D. Eisenhower]] in 1957, shortly after the launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union. It concluded that the United States was in danger of losing a war against the Soviets, and that massive increases in defence spending, particularly on missile programs, were required.<ref>[http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gaither-report-calls-for-more-us-missiles-and-fallout-shelters Gaither Report calls for more U.S. missiles and fallout shelters], history.com, accessed 13 February 2014.</ref>
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The [[Gaither Committee]] was appointed by US President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] in 1957, shortly after the launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union. It concluded that the United States was in danger of losing a war against the Soviets, and that massive increases in defence spending, particularly on missile programs, were required.<ref>[http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gaither-report-calls-for-more-us-missiles-and-fallout-shelters Gaither Report calls for more U.S. missiles and fallout shelters], history.com, accessed 13 February 2014.</ref>
  
 
==Security Resources Panel - Membership Roster==
 
==Security Resources Panel - Membership Roster==
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*[[William Webster (New England Electric System)|William Webster]] - [[New England Electric System]]
 
*[[William Webster (New England Electric System)|William Webster]] - [[New England Electric System]]
 
*Professor [[Jerome B. Wiesner]] - [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]
 
*Professor [[Jerome B. Wiesner]] - [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]
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*Technical Adviser [[Oliver P. Edward]] - [[Rand Corporation]]<ref>[http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB139/nitze02.pdf Deterrence & Survival in the Nuclear Age], Security Resources Panel of the Science Advisory Committee, 7 November 1957.</ref>
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*Technical Adviser [[Oliver P. Edward]] - [[Rand Corporation]]<ref name="GaitherReport">[http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB139/nitze02.pdf Deterrence & Survival in the Nuclear Age], Security Resources Panel of the Science Advisory Committee, 7 November 1957.</ref>
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===Advisory Panel===
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*[[Rowan H. Gaither Jr]] - [[Ford Foundation]]
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*Admiral [[Robert B. Carney]] - [[Westinghouse Electric]]
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*General [[James H. Doolittle]] - [[Shell Oil Company]]
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*General [[John E. Hull]] - [[Manufacturing Chemists Association]]
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*Dr [[Mervin J. Kelly]] - [[Bell Telephone Laboratories]]
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*Dr [[Ernest O. Lawrence]] - Radiation Laboratory, University of California.
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*[[Robert Lovett]] - [[Brown Brothers, Harriman]]
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*[[John J. McCloy]] - [[Chase Manhattan Bank]]
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*Dr [[Frank Stanton]] - [[Columbia Broadcasting System]]<ref name="GaitherReport">[http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB139/nitze02.pdf Deterrence & Survival in the Nuclear Age], Security Resources Panel of the Science Advisory Committee, 7 November 1957.</ref>
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===Science Advisory Committee - Subcommittee===
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*Dr [[James B. Fisk]] - [[Bell Telephone Laboratories]]
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*Dr [[James R. Killian Jr.]] - [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]
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*Dr [[I.I. Rabi]] - [[Science Advisory Committee]]<ref name="GaitherReport">[http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB139/nitze02.pdf Deterrence & Survival in the Nuclear Age], Security Resources Panel of the Science Advisory Committee, 7 November 1957.</ref>
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===Executive Staff===
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*[[David Z. Beckler]] - [[Science Advisory Committee]]
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*Lt. Col. [[Vincent T. Ford]] - [[United States Air Force]]<ref name="GaitherReport">[http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB139/nitze02.pdf Deterrence & Survival in the Nuclear Age], Security Resources Panel of the Science Advisory Committee, 7 November 1957.</ref>
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===Institute for Defence Analyses Officers===
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*General [[James McCormack Jr.]] - President.
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*Dr. [[Albert G. Hill]] - Vice President and Director of Research<ref name="GaitherReport">[http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB139/nitze02.pdf Deterrence & Survival in the Nuclear Age], Security Resources Panel of the Science Advisory Committee, 7 November 1957.</ref>
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===Project Members===
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*Dr [[Sidney S. Alexander]] - [[Massachussetts Institute of Technology]]
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*[[Donald Y. Barrer]] - IDA/WSEG
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*Dr [[Lloyd V. Berkner]] - [[Associated Universities, Inc.]]
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*[[Richard M. Bissell]] - [[Central Intelligence Agency]]
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*Dr [[Eugene T. Booth]] - [[Columbia University]]
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*[[Richard P. Booth]] - [[Bell Telephone Laboratories]]
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*Dr. [[Willard P. Bouricious]] - [[International Business Machines]]
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*Dr [[William E. Bradley]] - [[Philco Corporation]]
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*[[William E. Butler]] - [[Chase Manhattan Bank]]
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*[[Leonard Carulli]] - [[McKinsey and Company]]
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*Dr. [[Joseph M. Clifford]] - IDA/WSEG
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*Dr. [[George A. Contos]] - IDA/WSEG
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*[[James E. Cross]] - [[Center for International Study]]
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*Dr [[John H. Daniel]] - IDA/WSEG
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*Dr [[Edwin O. Elliott]] - [[Operations Evaluation Group]]
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*Dr [[Richard Emberson]] - [[Associated Universities, Inc]]
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*[[William J. Frantz]] - [[Boeing Aircraft Corporation]]
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*Dr [[J. Wayne Fredericks]] - [[Ford Foundation]]
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*[[Edwin B. George]] - [[Office of Defence Mobilization]]
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*Dr [[William M. Hall]] - [[Raytheon Manufacturing Co.]]
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*Dr [[Robert J. Hansen]] -  [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]
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*Dr [[Joseph O. Hanson]] - [[US Information Agency]]
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*Lt Col. [[James Hartgering]] - [[Walter Reed Medical Center]]
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*[[Robert A. Hawkins]] - [[AVCO Manufucturing Company]]
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*Dr [[William A. Higginbotham]] - [[Brookhaven National Laboratory]]
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*[[H. Burke Horton]] - [[Office of Defence Mobilization]]
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*[[William R. Hutchins]] - [[Raytheon Manufacturing Corp.]]
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*[[Chandler W. Jones]] - [[Narragansett Electric Company]]
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*[[Spurgeon M. Keeny, Jr]] - [[Office of Secretary of Defence]] R & E.
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*[[John W. Klotz]] - [[Office of Secretary of Defence]] R & E.
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*Col [[Omar E. Knox]], USAF - IDA/WDEG
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*[[Dalimil Kybal]] - [[Lockheed Aircraft Corporation]]
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*Dr [[Joel S. Lawson]] - University of Illinois
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*Dr [[Stanley J. Lawwill]] - [[Strategic Air Command]]
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*Colonel [[George A. Lincoln]] - [[United States Military Academy]]
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*[[Franklin A. Lindsay]] - [[McKinsey and Company]]
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*Dr [[Andrew Longacre]] - Syracuse University
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*Dr [[Andrew W. Marshall]] - [[Rand Corporation]]
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*Dr [[Brockway McMillan]] - [[Bell Telephone Laboratories]]
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*Dr [[Edwin M. McMillan]] - University of California
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*Dr [[Vincent V. McRae]] - [[Operations Research Office]]
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*Dr [[Melvin L. Merritt]] - [[Sandia Corporation]]
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*Dr [[Donald N. Michael]] - [[Dunlap & Associates]]
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*Dr [[William H. Minshull, Jr]] - [[Hughes Aircraft Corporation]]
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*[[Anthony J. Navoy]] - IDA/WSEG
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*General [[Otto L. Nelson, Jr]] - [[New York Life Insurance Co.]]
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*Dr [[Nathan M. Newmark]] - University of Illinois
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*[[Guy W. Nichols, Jr]] - [[New England Electric System]]
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*[[Paul H. Nitze]] - [[School of Advanced International Studies]]
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*Dr [[Joseph H. Pechman]] - [[Committee for Economic Development]]
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*[[Oliver Popenoe]] [[Office of Defense Mobilization]]
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*Dr [[Franklin A. Rodgers]] - [[Lincoln Laboratory]]
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*Dr [[Bruce W. Rohrbacher]] - [[MicKinsey and Company]]
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*[[Luis R. Sanchez]] - [[Rand Corporation]]
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*Dr [[William McC. Siebert]] - [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]
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*Lt Col [[Glen A. Smith]] - [[Central Intelligence Agency]]
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*[[Robert Stockley]] - [[Federal Civil Defense Administration]]
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*Dr [[Donald C. Stone]] - Springfield College
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*[[Walmer E. Strobe]] - US Naval Radiological Lab.
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*[[Norman H. Taylor]] - [[Lincoln Laboratory]]
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*Dr [[Lester Van Atta]] - [[Hughes Aircraft]]
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*[[Lawrence R. Walters]] - IDA/WSEG
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*[[William L. White]] - Stanford Research Institute.
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*Dr [[Robert Whitmer]] - [[Ramo-Wooldridge Corp]]
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*Major [[Paul F. Whine]], USAF - [[NORAD]]
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*[[Marshall K. Wood]] - Office of the Secretary of Defense (R & E)
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*Dr [[Herbert F. York]] - University of California<ref name="GaitherReport">[http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB139/nitze02.pdf Deterrence & Survival in the Nuclear Age], Security Resources Panel of the Science Advisory Committee, 7 November 1957.</ref>
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Latest revision as of 00:35, 18 February 2014

The Gaither Committee was appointed by US President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1957, shortly after the launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union. It concluded that the United States was in danger of losing a war against the Soviets, and that massive increases in defence spending, particularly on missile programs, were required.[1]

Security Resources Panel - Membership Roster

Steering Committee

Advisory Panel

Science Advisory Committee - Subcommittee

Executive Staff

Institute for Defence Analyses Officers

Project Members

Notes

  1. ↑ Gaither Report calls for more U.S. missiles and fallout shelters, history.com, accessed 13 February 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Deterrence & Survival in the Nuclear Age, Security Resources Panel of the Science Advisory Committee, 7 November 1957.
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