Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
In office January 29, 1961 – November 29, 1963
President
John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson
Preceded by
John N. Irwin II
Succeeded by
William Bundy
Director of Policy Planning
In office January 1, 1950[1] – May 28, 1953
President
Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower
Preceded by
George F. Kennan
Succeeded by
Robert R. Bowie
Personal details
Born
Paul Henry Nitze
(1907-01-16)January 16, 1907 Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died
October 19, 2004(2004-10-19) (aged 97) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Spouses
Phyllis Pratt
(m. 1932; died 1987)
Elisabeth Scott Porter
(m. 1993)
Education
Harvard University (BA)
Paul Henry Nitze (January 16, 1907 – October 19, 2004) was an American businessman and government official who served as United States Deputy Secretary of Defense, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, and Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department. He is best known for being the principal author of NSC 68 and the co-founder of Team B. He helped shape U.S. Cold War defense policy over the course of numerous presidential administrations.[2]
^"Directors of the Policy Planning Staff".
^Strobe Talbott, The Master of the Game: Paul Nitze and the Nuclear Peace (1989).
Paul Henry Nitze (January 16, 1907 – October 19, 2004) was an American businessman and government official who served as United States Deputy Secretary...
Policy Review Group was set up under the chairmanship of PaulNitze of the State Department. Nitze, an advocate of rollback, ensured that only the most severe...
USS Nitze (DDG-94) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. She is named for PaulNitze, who served as Secretary of the Navy under president Lyndon B. Johnson...
Dangerous Capabilities: PaulNitze and the Cold War is a biography of PaulNitze, the Cold War strategist and diplomat. It was published by HarperCollins...
Johnson. He had key roles in planning the Vietnam War, serving as deputy to PaulNitze at Defense under Kennedy and as Assistant Secretary of State for East...
successful Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) deployment. They are named for PaulNitze, Reagan's chief arms control negotiator, who proposed them in a 1985 speech...
Deputy Secretary of Defense, U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, and dean of Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University...
United States Strategic Bombing Survey in Japan, whose members included PaulNitze, concluded the atomic bombs had been unnecessary to win the war. They...
general in the United States Army. Commander of Union forces at Gettysburg PaulNitze – Diplomat, Secretary of the Navy, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and co-founder...
requirement of being "cost effective at the margin" was first formulated by PaulNitze in November 1985. In addition, SDI envisioned many space-based systems...
for the invasion of North Korea. Others, such as George F. Kennan and PaulNitze, disagreed. Along with the legality, the administration also had to consider...
New Statesman. Retrieved 1 May 2023. Kaplan, Fred (21 October 2004). "PaulNitze". Slate. Bryant, Nick (10 July 2015). "The decline of US power?". BBC...
Management Program Jeffrey K.; Liker, Jeffrey K.; Fruin, W. Mark; Adler, Paul S. (1999). Remade in America: Transplanting and Transforming Japanese Management...
Christopher Howard Baker Paul Volcker William H. Webster James Baker George Shultz William J. Brennan C. Everett Koop PaulNitze Colin Powell Dick Cheney...
in the woods" with Soviet dignitary Yuli Kvitsinsky, American diplomat PaulNitze suggested a compromise for reducing nuclear missiles in Europe on both...
necessary to deal with the Soviet threat. According to the report, drafted by PaulNitze and others: In the words of the Federalist (No. 28) "The means to be employed...
to participate in weekly, off-the-record discussions with Cyrus Vance, PaulNitze, Richard Helms, Averell Harriman and others. In that group, Warnke argued...
Christopher Howard Baker Paul Volcker William H. Webster James Baker George Shultz William J. Brennan C. Everett Koop PaulNitze Colin Powell Dick Cheney...
wife, Elizabeth Paepcke, was the sister of American diplomatic figure PaulNitze. In 1949 Paepcke made Aspen the site for a celebration of the 200th birthday...
secure the Camp David Accords in 1978. Vance insisted that the President make Paul Warnke Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, over strong opposition...
quantitative measurement...shows that we are winning the war". Led by General Paul D. Harkins, the officers of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam altered...
April 7: United States State Department Director of Policy Planning PaulNitze issues NSC 68, a classified report, arguing for the adoption of containment...
get a nuclear weapon, they are almost by definition not deterrable." PaulNitze argued in 1994 that nuclear weapons were obsolete in the "new world disorder"...
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