Wohlstetter, Roberta

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Albert J. Wohlstetter Biographical Note

1913 December 19 Born in New York City 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, Universities of California at Berkeley, and visiting professor at 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 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

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