Guide to the Records of the Carnegie Program, 1960-1966

Processed by Charlotte E. Erwin.

Guide to the Records of the Carnegie Program, 1960-1966

Collection number: Consult repository

Archives

California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, California

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Archives
California Institute of Technology
1200 East California Blvd.
Mail Code 015A-74
Pasadena, CA 91125
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Email: archives@caltech.edu
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Processed by:: Charlotte E. Erwin
Date Completed:: December 2001
Encoded by:: Anne Simms and Francisco Medina

Descriptive Summary

Title: Records of the Carnegie Program,

Date (inclusive): 1960-1966

Collection number: Consult repository

Creator: Carnegie Program in Science and Government

Extent: .5 linear ft.

Repository: California Institute of Technology. Archives.

Pasadena, California 91125

Abstract: Records of the Science and Government Program of the Caltech Humanities Division, sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation, 1960-1966. The program consisted of a series of seminars on arms control. Speakers from government (domestic and foreign), the military, and from the sciences and humanities were brought together. UCLA participated in the program beginning in the second year.

Language: English.

Administrative Information

Access

The collection is open for research. Researchers must apply in writing for access.

Publication Rights

Copyright may not have been assigned to the California Institute of Technology Archives. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of the Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the California Institute of Technology Archives as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item, box and file number], Records of the Carnegie Program. Archives, California Institute of Technology.

Acquisition Information

The Records of the Carnegie Program in Science and Government were donated to the Archives by Professor David Elliot of Caltech's Division of Humanities and Social Sciences in 1970.

Biography

In 1960 the Carnegie Corporation gave a substantial grant to Caltech's Humanities Division to support a program on "Science and Government." The decision was made to focus the program on arms control, and by the summer of 1960, the first session of "preliminary" seminars was underway. The program lasted five to six years.

The program modeled itself to some degree on an existing joint faculty seminar at Harvard and MIT led by Henry Kissinger. At Caltech, the two original organizers were Professors David C. Elliot (history) and Matthew Sands (physics), with consistent support from Charles C. Lauritsen (physics). The purpose was to bring scientists, historians and political scientists together to try to answer some of the most pressing questions of security and arms control. Approximately fifty Caltech faculty members agreed to commit themselves to weekly meetings, to which a distinguished speaker, typically from the outside but not always, was invited. In the first year, some of the visitors were: a number of representatives from the Rand Corporation, including Albert Wohlstetter (the Rand visitors provided the "preliminary" or orientation phase of the seminar); US military leaders, such as Gen. Maxwell Taylor; representatives from academic institutions, including Kissinger and Thomas Schelling from Harvard, James R. Killian and Jerome B. Wiesner from MIT and I. I. Rabi from Columbia; and an array of foreign visitors, among them John Strachey, liberal MP from the UK, Sir Solly Zuckerman from the University of Birmingham (UK), and A. Topchiev from the USSR. Talks were not recorded or published at Caltech; however, after the first year, UCLA began to host the speakers following their Caltech presentations, and the talks were then published under UCLA's aegis.

Scope and Content of Collection

During the preliminary and subsequent arms control seminars, the talks were summarized and the summaries were distributed to interested parties. David Elliot was responsible for most of the summaries, with Al Hibbs contributing significantly in later years. These summations now form the basis of the papers in the Carnegie Program collection, dating from June 21, 1960 through May 18, 1966. For the first three years, from 1960-1963, the meetings were titled "Arms Control Seminars." Beginning in the fall of 1963, they were titled "Seminar on National Security." At this time the program merged with a class of the same name given at Caltech by David Elliot as History 125.

The papers are arranged as four bound volumes of summaries and one unbound. In some cases, semester schedules are bound in.

Researchers should also refer to the oral history with David Elliot by Carol Bugé (1986), pp. 85-99; and to the article, "Scorpions in a Bottle" by Cushing Strout in Engineering and Science (April 1961), pp. 9-13.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection.

Subjects

California Institute of Technology

Carnegie Program in Science and Government

Arms Control

Related Collections

David Elliot Oral History with Carol Bugé (1986)
Robert Huttenback Oral History with Shirley Cohen (1998)
Robert Oliver Oral History with Loma Karklins (1990)
Rodman Paul Oral History with Carol Bugé (1982)
Hallett Smith Oral History with Carol Bugé (1981)

Collection Contents

Volume I

Preliminary Seminar on Arms Control, Summer 1960

Volume I, Preliminary Seminar on Arms Control Summer 1960, Session I

6/16 Sweezy, A. R., Caltech

Volume I, Preliminary Seminar on Arms Control Summer 1960, Session II

6/21 Rush, M., Rand Corporation

Volume I, Preliminary Seminar on Arms Control Summer 1960, Session III

6/28 Elsberg, D., Rand Corporation

Volume I, Preliminary Seminar on Arms Control Summer 1960, Session IV

7/5 Rowen, H., Rand Corporation

Volume I, Preliminary Seminar on Arms Control Summer 1960, Session V

7/7 Brown, H., Caltech

Volume I, Preliminary Seminar on Arms Control Summer 1960, Session VI

7/12 Marshall, A., Rand Corporation

Volume I, Preliminary Seminar on Arms Control Summer 1960, Session VII

7/19 Katz, A., Rand Corporation

Volume I, Preliminary Seminar on Arms Control Summer 1960, Session VIII

7/26 Digby, J., Rand Corporation

Volume I, Preliminary Seminar on Arms Control Summer 1960, Session IX

8/2 Wohlstetter, A., Rand Corporation

Seminar On Arms Control, Fall 1960

Volume I, Seminar On Arms Control Fall 1960, Session I

10/6 Brown, H., and Elliot, D., Caltech

Volume I, Seminar On Arms Control Fall 1960, Session II

10/13 Taylor, Gen. M. D., US Army; Lauritsen, C. C., Caltech

Volume I, Seminar On Arms Control Fall 1960, Session III

10/20 Moch, M. J., Press, F., Caltech

Volume I, Seminar On Arms Control Fall 1960, Session IV

10/28 Schriever, Lt. Gen. B. E., USAF; Millikan, C. B., Caltech

Volume I, Seminar On Arms Control Fall 1960, Session V

11/2 Kissinger, H., Harvard Univ.; Lauritsen, C. C., and Robertson, H. P., Caltech

Volume I, Seminar On Arms Control Fall 1960, Session VI

11/17 Schilling, W.; Strout, C., MIT

Volume I, Seminar On Arms Control Fall 1960, Session VII

11/23 Snow, Sir C. P.; Bacher, R. F., Caltech

Volume I, Seminar On Arms Control Fall 1960, Session VIII

12/1 Killian, J. R., MIT; Paul, R. W., Caltech

Volume I, Seminar On Arms Control Fall 1960, Session IX

12/8 Katzenback, E. L., Jr.; Huttenback, R. A., Caltech

Volume I, Seminar On Arms Control Fall 1960, Session X(a)

12/15 Brown, H., Caltech

Volume I, Seminar On Arms Control Fall 1960, Session X(b)

12/19 Group

Seminar On Arms Control, Winter 1961

Volume I, Seminar On Arms Control Winter 1961, Session I

1/5 Osgood, C. E.; Sands, M., Stanford Univ.

Volume I, Seminar On Arms Control Winter 1961, Session II

1/13 Wiesner, J. B., MIT; Roberts, J., Caltech

Volume I, Seminar On Arms Control Winter 1961, Session III

1/19 Schelling, T.; Lauritsen, T., Caltech

Volume I, Seminar On Arms Control Winter 1961, Session IV

1/26 Strachey, Rt. Hon. J., MP (UK); Wayland, J. H., Caltech

Volume I, Seminar On Arms Control Winter 1961, Session V

1/31 Hanessian, J.

Volume I, Seminar On Arms Control Winter 1961, Session VI

2/10 Boulding, K., Univ. of Michigan; Brooks, N., Caltech

Volume I, Seminar On Arms Control Winter 1961, Session VII

2/16 Healey, D., MP (UK); Paul, R. W., Caltech

Volume I, Seminar On Arms Control Winter 1961, Session VIII

2/23 Lerner, D., MIT; Elliot, D; Ellersieck, H., Caltech

Volume I, Seminar On Arms Control Winter 1961, Session IX

3/2 de Sola Pool, I., MIT; Weir, J.

Volume I, Seminar On Arms Control Winter 1961, Session X

3/9 Panofsky, W. K. H., Stanford Univ.; Lauritsen, T., Caltech

Volume I, Seminar On Arms Control Winter 1961, Session XI

3/16 Rabi, I. I., Columbia Univ.; Zuckerman, Sir S., Univ. of Birmingham; Smith, H., Caltech

Arms Control Seminars, Spring 1961

Volume I, Arms Control Seminars Spring 1961, Session I

3/29 Larson, A., Duke Univ.; Koepfli, J., Caltech

Volume I, Arms Control Seminars Spring 1961, Session II

4/6 Sohn, L. B., Harvard Univ.; Richard, J.

Volume I, Arms Control Seminars Spring 1961, Session III

4/13 Johnson, J. E.; Brown, H., Caltech

Volume I, Arms Control Seminars Spring 1961, Session IV

4/20 Topchiev, A. V., Academy of Science of the USSR; Bacher, R. F., Caltech

Volume I, Arms Control Seminars Spring 1961, Session V

5/3 Wadsworth, J., president, Peace Research Institute; Press, F., Caltech

Volume I, Arms Control Seminars Spring 1961, Session VI(a)

5/18 Pauling, L; Hibbs, A., Caltech

Volume I, Arms Control Seminars Spring 1961, Session VI(b)

5/2-5/7 The Oslo Conference-Statement

Volume II

Arms Control Seminars, Fall 1961

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Fall 1961, Session I

9/28 Young, Wayland, MP (UK)

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Fall 1961, Session II

10/12 Brown, H., Caltech; Sands, M., Stanford Univ.

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Fall 1961, Session III

11/2 Dinerstein, H., Rand Corporation

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Fall 1961, Session IV

11/16 Group

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Fall 1961, Session V

12/6 Johnson, U. A., Deputy Under Secretary of State

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Fall 1961, Session VI

12/13 Beloff, M., All Souls College, Oxford

Arms Control Seminars, Winter 1962

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Winter 1962, Session I

3/1 Bourne, General Sir Geoffrey, G.C.B., K.B.E.

Arms Control Seminars, Spring 1962

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Spring 1962, Session I

4/11 Buchan, A., Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Spring 1962, Session II

4/19 Carrillo, N. F., Mexican National Commission on Nuclear Energy

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Spring 1962, Session III

5/3 Healey, D., MP (UK)

Arms Control Seminars, Fall 1962

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Fall 1962, Session I

10/11 Sands, M., Stanford Univ.

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Fall 1962, Session II

10/23 Brown, H., Caltech

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Fall 1962, Session III

11/5 Hibbs, A., JPL

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Fall 1962, Session IV

11/6 Talbot, P., Ass. Sec. of State for South Asia and the Near East

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Fall 1962, Session V

11/28 Goldwater, B., US Senator

Arms Control Seminars, Winter 1963

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Winter 1963, Session I

1/7 Group

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Winter 1963, Session II

1/23 Mulley, F. W., MP (UK)

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Winter 1963, Session III

1/31 Ørvik, N., Norwegian Defense Ministry

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Winter 1963, Session IV

2/13 Dinerstein, H., Rand Corporation

Arms Control Seminars, Spring 1963

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Spring 1963, Session I

2/27 Hsieh, A., Rand Corporation

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Spring 1963, Session II

3/8 Acheson, D.

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Spring 1963, Session III

3/27 Mackintosh, M., Institute for Strategic Studies, London

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Spring 1963, Session IV

3/27 Getting, I., President, Aerospace Corporation

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Spring 1963, Session V

4/3 Stern, M., North American Aviation Corporation

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Spring 1963, Session VI

4/10 Sands, M., Stanford Univ.

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Spring 1963, Session VII

4/11 Brown, H. Caltech

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Spring 1963, Session VIII

4/24 Hill, A. G.

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Spring 1963, Session IX

4/26 Piore, E. R., IBM

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Spring 1963, Session X

4/30 Koepfli, J., Caltech

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Spring 1963, Session XI

5/1 Digby, J., Rand Corporation

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Spring 1963, Session XII

5/7 Riesman, D., Harvard Univ.

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Spring 1963, Session XIII

5/8 Gardner, T., President, Hycon Inc.

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Spring 1963, Session XIV

5/14 Gavin, Gen. J. M., USAF, ret.

Volume II, Arms Control Seminars Spring 1963, Session XV

5/22 Hill, A. G.

Volume III

Seminar On National Security, Fall 1963

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Fall 1963, Session I

10/9 Brown, H., Caltech

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Fall 1963, Session II

10/23 Rowen, H., Dep. Ass. Sec. of Defense

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Fall 1963, Session III

10/30 Press, F., Caltech

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Fall 1963, Session IV

11/6 Rubel, J., DDR & E

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Fall 1963, Session V

11/21 Langdon, G., Caltech

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Fall 1963, Session VI

12/3 Norstad, Gen. L., USAF, ret.

Seminar On National Security, Spring 1964

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Spring 1964, Session I

1/22 Oliver, R. W., Caltech

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Spring 1964, Session II

1/29 Bethe, H., Cornell Univ.

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Spring 1964, Session III

2/12 Schlesinger, J.; Kramish, A., Rand Corporation

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Spring 1964, Session IV

2/13 Gell-Mann, M., Caltech

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Spring 1964, Session V

2/18 Schelling, T. C., Center for International Studies, Harvard Univ.

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Spring 1964, Session VI

2/26 Hibbs, A., JPL

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Spring 1964, Session VII

3/11 Raborn, Admiral W. F., Aerojet Corporation

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Spring 1964, Session VIII

4/7-4/8 Hitch, C. J., Ass. Sec. of Defense

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Spring 1964, Session IX

4/15 Rossiter, C., Cornell Univ.

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Spring 1964, Session X

4/22 Harkabi, Y., former Chief of Military Intelligence, Israel

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Spring 1964, Session XI

4/29 Dinerstein, H., Rand Corporation

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Spring 1964, Session XII

5/14 Kissinger, H., Harvard Univ.

Seminar On National Security, Fall 1964

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Fall 1964, Session I

10/7 Brown, H., Caltech

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Fall 1964, Session II

10/28 Hibbs, A., JPL

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Fall 1964, Session III

11/11 Weber, K., CIA

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Fall 1964, Session IV

11/13 Kaysen, C., Harvard Univ.

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Fall 1964, Session V

11/18 Schelling, T. C., Harvard Univ.

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Fall 1964, Session VI

12/2 Scoville, H., Jr., ACDA

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Fall 1964, Session VII

12/19 Stone, J., Harvard Univ.

Seminar On National Security, Winter 1965

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Winter 1965, Session I

1/6 Wohlstetter, A., Rand Corporation

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Winter 1965, Session II

1/13 DuBridge, L. A., Caltech

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Winter 1965, Session III

1/20 Millikan, C. B., Caltech

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Winter 1965, Session IV

1/25 Wiesner, J. B., MIT

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Winter 1965, Session V

1/27 Lindvall, F. C., Caltech

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Winter 1965, Session VI

2/3 Koepfli, J., Caltech

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Winter 1965, Session VII

2/10 Ramo, S., TRW

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Winter 1965, Session VIII

2/17 Fowler, W. A., Caltech

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Winter 1965, Session IX

3/3 Brown, H., Caltech

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Winter 1965, Session X

3/10 Bacher, R., Caltech

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Winter 1965, Session XI

3/16 Todd, Lord, Cambridge University

Seminar On National Security, Spring 1965

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Spring 1965, Session I

4/5 Kohnstamm, M., Committee for a United Europe

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Spring 1965, Session II

4/14 Oldham, C. H. G., Institute for Current World Affairs

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Spring 1965, Session III

4/28 Scalapino, R. A., UC Berkeley

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Spring 1965, Session IV

5/3 La Villesbrunne, M. de, French Embassy

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Spring 1965, Session V

5/12 Agnew, H. M., Los Alamos Laboratory

Volume III, Seminar On National Security Spring 1965, Session VI

5/26 Frutkin, A., NASA

National Security Seminars (unbound texts), Winter 1965

Volume III, National Security Seminars (unbound texts) Winter 1965, Session I

1/12 DuBridge, L. A., Caltech

Volume III, National Security Seminars (unbound texts) Winter 1965, Session II

1/20 Millikan, C. B., Caltech

Volume III, National Security Seminars (unbound texts) Winter 1965, Session III

1/27 Lindvall, F. C., Caltech

Volume III, National Security Seminars (unbound texts) Winter 1965, Session IV

2/10 Ramo, S., TRW

Volume III, National Security Seminars (unbound texts) Winter 1965, Session V

2/10 Fowler, W., Caltech

Volume IV

National Security Seminars, Abstracts 1965

Volume IV, National Security Seminars, Abstracts 1965, Session I

10/13 Huttenback, R. A., Caltech

Volume IV, National Security Seminars, Abstracts 1965, Session II

10/20 Hibbs, A., Caltech

Volume IV, National Security Seminars, Abstracts 1965, Session III

10/27 Kramish, A., Rand Corporation

Volume IV, National Security Seminars, Abstracts 1965, Session IV

11/3 Halperin, M. H., Harvard Univ.

Volume IV, National Security Seminars, Abstracts 1965, Session V

11/10 Hawkins, W., Ass. Sec., Army Research and Development

Volume IV, National Security Seminars, Abstracts 1965, Session VI

11/17 Brown, H., Caltech

Volume IV, National Security Seminars, Abstracts 1965, Session VII

11/23 Shulman, M., Harvard Univ.

Volume IV, National Security Seminars, Abstracts 1965, Session VIII

12/1 Sherwin, C.

Volume IV, National Security Seminars, Abstracts 1965, Session IX

12/7 Dulles, A.

Volume IV, National Security Seminars, Abstracts 1965, Session X

12/8 Weyl, F. J., Dep. Chief and Chief Scientist, ONR

National Security Seminars, Abstracts 1966

Volume IV, National Security Seminars, Abstracts 1966, Session I

1/5 Gibbs, N.

Volume IV, National Security Seminars, Abstracts 1966, Session II

1/12 Basore, B.

Volume IV, National Security Seminars, Abstracts 1966, Session III

1/19 Bleck, B., British Consulate General, Los Angeles

Volume IV, National Security Seminars, Abstracts 1966, Session IV

1/26 Nolte, R. H., Institute for Current World Affairs

Volume IV, National Security Seminars, Abstracts 1966, Session V

2/7 Palliser, M.

Volume IV, National Security Seminars, Abstracts 1966, Session VI

2/9 Ravenholt, A.

Volume IV, National Security Seminars, Abstracts 1966, Session VII

2/16 Corman, J., US House of Representatives

Volume IV, National Security Seminars, Abstracts 1966, Session VIII

2/23 Rowen, H. S., Bureau of the Budget [damaged]

Volume IV, National Security Seminars, Abstracts 1966, Session IX

4/6 Bull, H., Foreign Office, London

Volume IV, National Security Seminars, Abstracts 1966, Session X

4/13 Munger, E. S., Caltech

Volume IV, National Security Seminars, Abstracts 1966, Session XI

4/27 Hoag, M., Rand Corporation

Volume IV, National Security Seminars, Abstracts 1966, Session XII

5/18 Price, B., Ministry of Defense, London

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