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'''Paul Henry Nitze''' was a Wall Street banker who became an important Cold War figure. During the Second World War he founded the [[Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies|School of Advanced International Studies]], specifically to train young Americans for service in America's emerging empire. A year after founding SAIS he became vice chairman of the US Strategic Bombing Survey and played an important role in the decision to drop nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. | '''Paul Henry Nitze''' was a Wall Street banker who became an important Cold War figure. During the Second World War he founded the [[Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies|School of Advanced International Studies]], specifically to train young Americans for service in America's emerging empire. A year after founding SAIS he became vice chairman of the US Strategic Bombing Survey and played an important role in the decision to drop nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. | ||
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Paul Henry Nitze was a Wall Street banker who became an important Cold War figure. During the Second World War he founded the School of Advanced International Studies, specifically to train young Americans for service in America's emerging empire. A year after founding SAIS he became vice chairman of the US Strategic Bombing Survey and played an important role in the decision to drop nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In 1950 Nitze became head of Policy Planning in the State Department and was the principal author of a highly influential secret National Security Council document NSC-68 which pressed for increased arms spending by exaggerating the military threat of the Soviet Union.[1] Both Nitze and Herter were connected to the Pratt family and Standard Oil. Both married granddaughters of the oil magnate Charles Pratt - in other words their father-in-laws were brothers.
Notes
- ↑ Fred Kaplan, 'Paul Nitze: The man who brought us the Cold War', Slate Magazeine, 21 October 2004
