Albert J. Wohlstetter Biographical Note
1913 December 19 | Born, New York City, New York |
1934 | B.A., College of the City of New York |
1934-1935 | Studied, Columbia University Law School |
1937 | M.A. in mathematical and symbolic logic from Columbia University, Graduate School of Philosophy |
1939 | Married Roberta Morgan |
1941-1942 | Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research |
1942-1943 | Consultant, Planning Committee, War Production Board |
1942-1945 | Factory Manager and Quality Control Manager, Atlas Aircraft Products Corporation |
1945-1946 | Director of Research, General Panel Corporation, New York |
1946-1947 | Program Director, National Housing Agency, Washington, D.C. |
1947-1951 | Vice President, then President, General Panel Corporation, Burbank, California |
1951-1997 | Senior Analyst and Consultant, Rand Corporation, Economics Department |
1958 | Adviser to United States delegation, Geneva Conference on Surprise Attack |
1961-1967 | Consultant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense, and thereafter consultant to the Department of Defense throughout his career |
1962 | Adviser to President John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis |
1962-1964 | Ford Professor, University of California at Berkeley, and visiting professor at University of California, Los Angeles |
1964-1972 | Served as consultant to various corporations and institutions, including Research & Analysis Corp., Stanford Research Institute, General Electric, and the Northrop Corporation |
1964-1980 | University Professor, later University Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago |
1965 | Author (with Roberta Wohlstetter), Controlling the Risks in Cuba |
1965, 1976 | Awarded Medal for Distinguished Service, Department of Defense |
1969-1971 | Consultant to the National Security Council, Washington D.C. |
1970-1971 | Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, England |
1970-1992 | Member, Executive Committee and Director, Strategy Group, California Seminar on Arms Control and Foreign Policy (also known as California Seminar on International Security and Foreign Policy) |
1971?-1997 | Member, Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel |
1974-1997 | Founding partner and Senior Consultant, PanHeuristics, affiliated with Science Applications Inc., and subsequently with RDA |
1975-? | President, European American Institute for Security Research (EAI) |
1975-1988? | Chairman, New Alternatives Workshop |
1979 | Author (with Roberta Wohlstetter), Swords from Plowshares: The Military Potential of Civilian Nuclear Energy |
1979-1992? | Vice President, Security Conference on Asia and Pacific (SECAP) |
198?-1997 | President, American Institute for Strategic Cooperation (AISC) |
1980-1997 | Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University |
1985 | Author, Between an Unfree World and None: Increasing Our Choices |
1985 November | Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter jointly awarded Medal of Freedom by President Reagan |
1985-1992 | Member, President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) |
1986-1992 | Member, Defense Policy Board |
1986 | Appointed Co-Chairman of the Presidential Commission of Integrated Long-Term Strategy |
1990-1997 | Active in the affairs of the Balkan Institute |
1994 | Honorary Ph.D., City University of New York |
1997 January 10 | Died, Los Angeles, California |
Roberta Wohlstetter Biographical Note
1912 August 22 | Born, Duluth, Minnesota |
1930 Summer | Studied, Stanford University |
1931 Summer | Studied, Sorbonne, Paris |
1932 Summer | Studied, University of Heidelberg |
1933 | B.A., Vassar College |
1934-1935 | Studied, Columbia University Law School |
1936 | M.A. in psychology, Columbia University |
1937 | M.A. in comparative literature, Radcliffe College |
1937-1938 | Teaching assistant, University of Southern California |
1939 | Married Albert Wohlstetter |
Early 1940s | Taught at Barnard College |
Mid 1940s | Taught at Howard University |
Attended Washington School of Psychiatry | |
1947-2002 | Consultant, Rand Corporation, Social Science Department |
1962 | Author, Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision |
1962 | Awarded the Bancroft Prize in Diplomatic History |
1963 | Named the Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year |
1965 | Author (with Albert Wohlstetter), Controlling the Risks in Cuba |
1965-1968? | Taught at the University of Chicago |
1970-2007 | Member, Council on Foreign Relations (first woman to be invited to join) |
1970-1971 | Fellow, St. Hilda's College, Oxford, England |
1970-1992 | Member, California Seminar on Arms Control and Foreign Policy (also known as California Seminar on International Security and Foreign Policy) |
1979 | Author (with Albert Wohlstetter), Swords from Plowshares: The Military Potential of Civilian Nuclear Energy |
1979-1982 | Member, Defense Science Board |
1981-1985 | Member, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Advisory Board, Ad Hoc Task Force on Terrorism |
1982-1984 | Consultant, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) |
1985 November | Awarded (with Albert Wohlstetter) the Medal of Freedom by President Reagan |
1986-1989 | Consultant, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy |
1988-1998 | Consultant to the Director, Net Assessment |
1994-2007 | Served on Board of Advisors, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) |
1997 | Awarded the Defense Special Weapons Agency Lifetime Achievement Medal |
2007 January 6 | Died, Manhattan, New York |
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