Papers, 1932-1989 (bulk 1946-1989).

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Papers, 1932-1989 (bulk 1946-1989).

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Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, articles, drafts, speeches, notes, writings, interviews, appointment books, business records, name and subject files, printed matter, and photographs chiefly relating to Nitze's role in the formation of U.S. foreign and national security policy from 1946 to 1989. Includes material from his tenure as assistant secretary of defense for international affairs, secretary of the navy. deputy secretary of defense, U.S. delegate to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, and as an advisor on national security to the Kennedy, Carter, and Reagan campaigns. His World War II activities, including work on the Strategic Bombing Survey and the European Recovery Program (later known as the Marshall Plan), are also documented. Postwar topics include anti-ballistic missile treaty, Berlin crisis, civil defense, Cuban missile crisis, disarmament, nuclear test ban treaty, nuclear weapons, and relations with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Also documented are his associations with the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University (later Paul H. Nitze School of International Studies), board of directors at Johns Hopkins and Harvard universities, Atlantic Council of the United States, Committee on the Present Danger, and Council on Foreign Relations. Persons represented include Dean Acheson, Alexander Calder, Clark Clifford, John Paton Davies, John Foster Dulles, George Frost Kennan, Yuli Kvitsinsky, Charles Burton Marshall, Robert S. McNamara, and Adlai E. Stevenson.

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