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...idea, not of abolishing them at one stroke, but of regulating them in the interest of stability. Out of this discussion emerged a new approach to the arms race under the banner of 'arms control.' The thinking was particularly hard along the banks of the Charles River, where Jerome Wiesner, Thomas C. Schelling, Henry Kissinger and others worked out the strategy of equilibrium in the nuclear age. A series of seminars and study groups at the end of the fifties culminated in a highly influential paper by Wiesner in Daedalus magazine in the winter...
...essence of arms control was 'stable nuclear deterrence' -- the view, that is, that the best hope for peace and for ultimate disarmament lay in creating a situation where, in Wiesner's words "a surprise attack by one side cannot prevent retaliation by the other." The temptation of surprise attack in a nuclear age was the hope of knocking out the opposing capability. If each side knew that both its own and the enemy nuclear forces could survive any conceivable assaults -- through making missile bases for example 'hard' or mobile -- then neither side would rationally initiate an attack which would only...
...joint committee, designated CAMROC, the Cambridge Radio Observatory Committee, is sponsored by Harvard and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and M.I.T. and the M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory. Co-chairmen Edward M. Purcell, Gerhard Gade University Professor, and Jerome B. Wiesner, dean of the School of Science at M.I.T., head the group of ten scientists and engineers...
...Jerome Wiesner, former presidential science advisor, now dean of science at M.I.T., and prominent management representatives of the Xerox Corp., Lockheed Missiles and Space Co., the Polaroid Corp., and Continental Oil, are also on the Committee...
...Wiesner echoed Hoffman's fear of a "foreign policy of frustration." He said the Arizonan has "said he thinks a nuclear war is inevitable in this century. If as President he found the pressure of avoiding such a conflict unbearable, he might just decide to get it over...