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Title: Richard Latter papers
Date (inclusive): 1929-1992
Collection Number: 2019C12
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
40 manuscript boxes
(20.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Writings, correspondence, studies, reports, notes, printed matter, and photographs, relating to theoretical physics, nuclear
weapons, nuclear weapons testing, and especially the Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapon Tests.
Creator:
Latter, Richard, 1923-1999
Creator:
Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapon Tests (1958-1962 : Geneva, Switzerland)
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2018.
[Identification of item], Richard Latter Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives
American physicist and Rand Corporation consultant.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Richard Latter papers include writings, correspondence, studies, reports, notes, printed matter, and photographs, relating
to theoretical physics, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons testing, and especially the Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear
Weapon Tests.
Richard Latter was a physicist and consultant with the Rand Corporation during the 1950s and 1960s, who later founded his
own defense consulting group. The collection documents his work with the Geneva Conference on Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapons
tests in 1959, including minutes, reports, agendas and other material relating to nuclear nonproliferation.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Physics
Nuclear weapons
Nuclear weapons -- Testing