Albert Wohlstetter
Albert Wohlstetter (born December 19, 1913 in New York City , † January 10, 1997 in Los Angeles ) was an American political scientist .
Wohlstetter studied at City College of New York and Columbia University in the 1930s, and worked in the war economy in the 1940s. From 1951 to 1963 he was a consultant at RAND Corporation . For this he wrote a first draft of an atomic strategy of second strike capability in 1953 , which was incorporated into the doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) . He taught at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of California, Berkeley and from 1964 to 1980 as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago .
His wife Roberta Morgan Wohlstetter (1912-2007) was a well-known military historian and expert on the American secret services .
Paul Wolfowitz received his doctorate from Wohlstetter . The Shiite opposition member Ahmad al-Jalabi, who fled Iraq in 1958, also studied with him .
The Conservative Wohlstetter advised several Democratic and Republican US Presidents (including John F. Kennedy in the Cuban Missile Crisis ) on military and security issues, advocating the limited use of nuclear weapons .
Web links
- Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com , Memory of Alfred and Roberta Wohlstetter, The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC), English.
- Writings of Albert Wohlstetter , RAND Corporation , English.
- Obituary for Albert Wohlstetter - Voice of America , English.
- DIED Albert Wohlstetter , Der Spiegel , 4/1997.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horn, Eva: The apocalyptic fiction. In: Bernhard, P., Nehring, H. (ed.): Thinking about the Cold War, Essen 2014, p. 52.
- ↑ See Lang Patrick W .: Drinking The Kool-Aid. In: Middle East Policy, Vol. 11, No. 2, Summer 2004, p. 4f
- ↑ See hellish additional costs . In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 1988, pp. 109-112 ( online - 18 January 1988 ). and also Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 21, 2007: The ideas will stay
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wohlstetter, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American political scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 1997 |
| Place of death | los Angeles |