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...this warning, top U.S. officials already knew the hazards of dioxin in Agent Orange from the Government's own research and that as a Government contractor, the company was simply filling an order. The federal court documents show that in 1967 the Joint Chiefs of Staff reviewed a Rand Corp. warning about the herbicide but discounted it and continued the spraying, believed by the military to be essential to the war effort, for an additional 2½ years. Yet the Pentagon is on record as having ordered Agent Orange from Dow and others specifically on the basis that...
Kahn was born in Bayonne, N.J., graduated from U.C.L.A. in 1945 and three years later joined the Rand Corp., the California think tank that helps the Pentagon develop defense strategies. He rejected the prevailing nuclear doctrine, Mutual Assured Destruction, which postulates that the devastation accompanying a nuclear exchange will deter the use of such weapons. Instead, he urged preparation for fighting limited nuclear wars...
...Kahn left Rand to help form his own think tank, the Hudson Institute, on bucolic acreage north of New York City. He kept his umbilical cord of contracts with the Pentagon; approximately half of the institute's $3.6 million annual budget comes from Government contracts. But he also branched out to ponder other societal problems. Among the studies being pursued: prospects for electronic transmission of mail, ways to win a war in El Salvador, alternatives to the federal income tax, the strength of the Soviet navy. On a typical day, Kahn moved from seminars to informal discussions spouting such...
...large extent, the work he and other analysts did at Rand led to the adoption of the more refined nuclear war-fighting strategies currently in place. But the grim prospect of the unthinkable never diluted his evangelical optimism; during the past year he concentrated on selling his vision of a prosperous world future to schools and textbook publishers. "We've had 20 years of pessimism in this country," he said at a heated exchange at the Hudson Institute. "Being a realist today makes one an optimist...
More than anything else, it was IBM's awesome sales skills that enabled the company to capture the computer market. Although it now seems hard to believe, IBM did not introduce the first commercial computer. Remington Rand did that in 1951 with a computer called