Dodge, Joseph, 176–77, 180
Dougherty, Russell, 276–77, 357–58, 384
Douglas, Donald, 56–61
Douglas, Jim, 105–6, 150–51
Douglas Aircraft, 58–61
Douhet, Giulio, 35–36, 69
Draft Presidential Memorandums (DPM), 281–82, 315–30, 325–26, 363–64
Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick), 11, 231
Dulles, Allen, 150–51, 159, 163–64, 168
Dulles, John Foster, 136, 149–51, 174–75, 178–81
—atomic weapon use accepted by, 178–80
—“massive-retaliation speech” of, 174–75, 181, 185–86, 190
—New Look and, 175, 181
Dunn, Frederick Sherwood, 19–22, 29–30, 50, 186, 188–89
Earle, Edward Mead, 16–17, 25
East Germany, 291–98
—1961 Berlin crisis and, 294–98
—population exodus from, 291–92
—Soviet treaty with, 292–93
Eckert, C. A., 103
Economics of Defense in the Nuclear Age, The (Hitch), 252
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 126–27, 131, 145–47, 149–54, 251, 256
—on Army use in “big war,” 196
—budget tightness under, 145, 176
—defense buildup rejected by, 145–47, 176–77
—foreign aid under, 177
—on Gaither Report, 146–47, 152, 154
—“great equation” of, 178, 180
—Khrushchev met by, 292
—massive retaliation and, 180–81
—military decisions and, 177–78
—missile gap and, 168–69, 172–73, 287
—“New Look” defense plan of, 175, 180–81, 183–84
—Nitze paper rejected under, 137
—SAC vulnerability and, 150–52
—SIOP and, 264, 266
—on strong defense, 145–46
election, of 1960, 248–50
Ellis, Richard, 356, 384
Ellsberg, Daniel, 123–24, 249–50, 253, 275–79, 285
—counterforce option suggested by, 278–79
—JSCP and, 277–78
—Pentagon Papers leaked by, 337
—SIOP-63 and, 275–79
Emergency Action Message (EAM), 276
Enthoven, Alain, 124, 250, 252–54, 256, 259–62, 272, 285, 316
—Assured Destruction criterion and, 317–18, 326, 365–66
—DPMs and, 281–82
—limited war strategy and, 327
—military officers and, 254
—in 1961 Berlin crisis, 299, 302
—on RAND climate, 253
—Soviet targets categorized by, 279
—style of, 253–54
Ermarth, Fritz, 359, 368
Escalation and the Nuclear Option (Brodie), 340
Evaluation of Strategic Offensive Weapons Systems (WSEG-50), 258–62
fallout, 126, 261, 268, 271, 310–14
“Fallout Protection: What to Know About Nuclear Attack—What to Do About It,” 310–13
fallout shelters, 145, 307–14, 322–24
Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA), 126
Federal Housing Administration, 126
Feldman, Meyer, 308–9
Felt, Harry, 275
Fili Plant (Moscow), 156–60
Fisher, R. E., 71
Flanagan, Dennis, 228
Ford, Gerald, 379–80
Ford, Henry, II, 61, 251
Ford Foundation, 61
Foreign Affairs, 33, 171, 191, 377–79
Foreign Policy, 379
Foster, John S., Jr., 350, 353, 362, 368–69
Foster, William C., 128–29, 132, 146–47, 149–51, 152–53
Foster Panel, 368–70
Fowler, Henry, 379
Fox, William T. R., 19, 21–25, 27–30, 50, 72, 188
France, 302, 338
Franke, William, 265
Fryklund, Richard, 282
Fullhouse Concept, 107–8
Gaither, H. Rowan, 60–61, 125, 127–29, 146–47, 171
Gaither Committee, 125–43, 225–26
—advisory panel for, 129
—fallout shelter program recommended by, 145
—IRBM abandonment urged on, 144–45
—LeMay challenged by, 132–34
—Marshall and, 213
—national security issues as mandate of, 129
—NSC briefing by, 149–50
—priorities of, 145
—report of, see Gaither Report
—R-290 report and, 128, 130–31, 144
—SAC readiness studied by, 131–34
—Sputnik and, 136
—steering committee of, 129, 132, 134, 136, 148
Gaither Report, 141–42, 166–67
—defense spending recommended by, 145, 149–50
—J. Dulles on, 150
—missile program acceleration recommended by, 144
—press stories on, 153–54
—public relations for, 152–53
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 195, 249, 311
Gallois, Pierre, 284, 338, 340
game theory, 63–68, 91, 178, 214
—initial conception of, 64–65
—limitation of, 67
—limited war and, 199
—minimax solution in, 66
—Prisoners’ Dilemma in, 65–67
Gardner, Trevor, 115–16
Garwin, Richard, 349
Gates, Thomas, 168, 252, 263–70
—SIOP-62 and, 269–70
Gavin, James, 249
Germany, Nazi:
—post-war division of, 291
—World War II bombing of, 35–37, 41, 70–71
Germany, see also East Germany; West Germany
Gilpatric, Roswell, 152, 270–72, 279, 287, 324
Goldhamer, Herbert, 202, 213–16, 219, 226
Goodpaster, Andrew, 146–47, 150–51, 169
Gray, Gordon, 128, 146–47, 150–51
Graybeal, Sidney, 162
Great Britain, 36, 53, 302
Griggs, David, 57–58, 74, 84, 111, 115, 221, 362
Griswold, A. Whitney, 50
Gruenther, Alfred, 176
Guided Missiles Intelligence Committee (GMIC), 163–65
Halperin, Morton, 346–47
Hanounian, Norman, 261
Harlan, John Marshall, 52
Hart, Philip, 355
Helmer, Olaf, 62, 97
Henderson, Dierdre, 249
Henderson, Larry, 61, 68, 82, 104–5
Herbst, Roland, 361–62
Hershleifer, Jack, 206
Hiroshima, atomic bombing of, 22, 179
Hitch, Charles, 70–72, 76–78, 81–84, 90, 97, 191, 206–7, 253, 316
—in Defense Department, 252–56, 259–62, 272, 285
—in 1961 Berlin crisis, 299
Hoeber, Francis, 359, 368
Hoffman, Frederic S., 98–104, 106, 118–24, 209, 250, 253
Hull, John, 129
Humphrey, George, 176, 180
Hunt, Victor, 205–7, 222
Hutchins, Robert, 24
hydrogen bomb:
—CEP of, 113–14
—deterrence power of, 85
—development of, 74
—manufacturing cost of, 82
—power of, 77–80
—rational use of, 79–81
—research on, 64
—size of, 111
—see also nuclear weapons; strategy, nuclear
ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile), 111–24, 255
—ABM defenses for, 350
—accuracy of, 374–75
—fratricide of, 375
—Killian Panel and, 131
—protection from, 118–21
—SAC vs. RAND defense systems for, 120–21
—systematic error in, 375
Iklé, Fred, 387
“Implications of Large-Yield Nuclear Weapons” (RAND), 82
Introduction to the Fleet Ballistic Missile (NAVWAG-1), 234
IRBM (intermediate-range ballistic missile), 131, 144–45
Japan, World War II bombing of, 42–43
Johnson, Louis, 138–40
Johnson, Lyndon B., 317, 325, 329
—on McNamara, 337
—on Nike-X production, 346
—Vietnam War and, 333
Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. (JCS), 22, 39, 41–42, 44, 85, 149–50, 182–83, 335