ABBREVIATIONS
BoB. Bureau of the Budget.
CNO. Chief of Naval Operations.
C/S. Chief of Staff.
DDEL. Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kans.
DoD. Department of Defense.
DPM. Draft Presidential Memorandum.
FOIA. Obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
HSTL. Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Mo.
JCS. Joint Chiefs of Staff.
JFKL. John F. Kennedy Library, Dorchester, Mass.
LBJL. Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Austin, Tex.
LoC. Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division, Washington, D.C.
Max. AFB. Simpson Historical Research Center, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.
NA/MMB. National Archives, Modern Military Branch, Washington, D.C.
NSC. National Security Council.
SAC. Strategic Air Command.
USAF. United States Air Force.
*—declassified at instigation of the author.
1: YEAR ZERO
9 King report: Letter, Brodie to Edward Mead Earle, Nov. 11, 1943, Edward Mead Earle Papers, Box 3, B folder, Princeton Univ.
9 drop “Layman’s”: Thomas Schelling, “Bernard Brodie (1910–1978)” in International Security, Winter 1978, p. 2.
11 “move freely”: “The Military Intellectuals,” London Times Literary Supplement, Aug. 25, 1961.
12 Brodie and horses: Comments, Brodie, Proceedings of the U.S. Military History Symposium: Science, Technology and Warfare (Office of Air Force Historian, 1969), p. 87; and interviews.
14 Brodie fellowship: Letter, Quincy Wright to Vera Dean, Mar. 25, 1940, Quincy Wright Papers, 1972 Addendum, Box 11, Brodie folder, Univ. of Chicago; and interview.
14 “A-number-one man”: Many letters, ibid.
14 “opinions and ideas”: Letter, Wright to William T. R. Fox, Aug. 8, 1944, Quincy Wright Papers, 1972 Addendum, Box 14, Fox folder.
15 “Can Peaceful Change…”: Bernard Brodie Papers, Box 21, UCLA.
16 “As you already know”: Letter, Brodie to Wright, Sept. 19, 1940, Quincy Wright Papers, 1972 Addendum, Box 11, Brodie folder.
16 Carnegie fellowship and book: Letter, Brodie to Wright, Apr. 29, 1949, and telegram, Sept. 18, 1940, ibid.
17 “not merely”: Earle, “National Defense and Political Science” in Political Science Quarterly, Dec. 1940. All passages quoted were underlined, bracketed, or otherwise highlighted by Brodie; see his copy in Bernard Brodie Papers, Box 24, Earle folder.
17 Leites and proofing: Letter, Brodie to Wright, Apr. 29, 1941, Quincy Wright Papers, 1972 Addendum, Box 11, Brodie folder; and interviews.
17 Dartmouth job: Letter, Brodie to Wright, June 14, 1941, ibid.
18 course outline: ibid.
18 15,000 copies: Letter, Brodie to Wright, Oct. 9, 1942, ibid.
18 “There is a rather”: Letter, E. Gordon Bill to Brodie, Mar. 2, 1943, Edward Mead Earle Papers, Box 3, B folder.
18 Brodie to Ordnance: Letterhead, Brodie to Earle, loc. cit.
18 to full lieutenant: Letter, Brodie to Earle, Oct. 7, 1943, ibid.
18 Brodie to CNO office: Letter, Brodie to Earle, Nov. 11, 1943, ibid.
19 “So far as”: Letter, Brodie to Earle, Sept. 23, 1943, ibid.
19 “my voice”: Letter, Brodie to Earle, Nov. 11, 1943, ibid.
19 Yale trip: Letter, Brodie to Earle, Aug. 14, 1944, Edward Mead Earle Papers, Box 5, Brodie folder.
19 “We have”: Letter, Frederick Dunn to Brodie, Mar. 14, 1945, Bernard Brodie Papers, Box 3, Yale Univ.-Official.
19 “It was not”: “Training in International Relations at Yale University,” May 1945, Charles Seymour Papers, Box 87, #2 folder on IIS, 1934–39, Yale Univ.
20 “The international”: Nicholas Spykman, America’s Strategy in World Politics (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1942), p. 447.
20 Dunn’s views: William T. R. Fox, “Frederick Sherwood Dunn and the American Study of International Relations” in World Politics, Oct. 1962; and interviews.
20 “to supplement”: “Report of the Yale Institute of International Studies, July 1, 1949 to June 30, 1950,” A. Whitney Griswold Papers, Box 126, folder 1153, Yale Univ.
21 strong support of Seymour: Seymour wrote to Edmund Day of the Rockefeller Foundation on June 12, 1934: “the Spykman matter… is a project which I have very much at heart…” Charles Seymour Papers, Box 87, #1 folder on IIS, 1934–39.
21 $100,000: Letter, Norman Thompson to James Angell, May 23, 1945, ibid.
21 number of international relations majors: “Training in International Relations at Yale University,” loc. cit.
21 Advisory Counciclass="underline" Charles Seymour Papers, Box 88, IIS Advisory Council, 1944–50 folder.
21 corporate contributors: A. Whitney Griswold Papers, Box 126, folder 1154.
22 “they work”: Memo, V. O. Key to Mr. Furniss, Dec. 18, 1950, A. Whitney Griswold Papers, Box 126, folder 1153.
22 “A Security Policy…”: Attached to letter, Earle to James Reston, Apr. 2, 1945, Edward Mead Earle Papers, Box 5, Rye Conference folder.
22 August 1: “A Program of Studies in International Consensus,” Feb. 1949, p. 13, Charles Seymour Papers, Box 89, IIS, Rockefeller Foundation Grants folder.
2: LIVING WITH THE BOMB
24 Hutchins and lab: Alice Kimball Smith, A Peril and a Hope: The Scientists’ Movement in America 1945–47 (Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1965), p. 94.
24 Chicago Conference participants: “List of Participants,” Edward Mead Earle Papers, Box 5, Chicago University Atomic Energy Control Conference folder, Princeton Univ.
25 Brodie’s research: See footnotes in Brodie, The Atomic Bomb and American Security (Yale Institute of International Studies, Memorandum #18, Nov. 1, 1945); and interviews.
25 Brodie’s ideas: Brodie, “Strategic Consequences of the Atomic Bomb” (notes), Edward Mead Earle Papers, loc. cit.; elaborated in Brodie, The Atomic Bomb and American Security, except the passage on p. 32, “If those four… ,” which comes from Brodie, The Absolute Weapon (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1946), pp. 29–30. The thought, if not the exact quote, is also in the earlier material.
26 Brodie outline: Brodie, “Strategic Consequences of the Atomic Bomb,” loc. cit.