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Arms Control, Disarmament, and National Security
by Brennan, Donald G. (Editor)
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- Hardcover
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- Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. Previous owner's stamp on fep. Minor page soiling.
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About This Item
New York: George Braziller, 1961. Reprint. Second printing. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. Previous owner's stamp on fep. Minor page soiling.. 475 p. 25 cm. Maps. Footnotes. References. Notes on Contributors. Although this book was written by 23 authors, it is not a routine collection of essays, because they are inter-related. Every chapter has been specifically written for this volume, The editor has been able to achieve a degree of unitity while calling on a wide spectrum of expertise and experience. This book has been based on a special issue (fall 1960) of Daedalus. Eleven of the chapters in this work first appears in Daedalus in substantailly their present form, seven chapters have been revised, some extensively, and five chapters are new. From an on-line posting: "Donald G. Brennan was born in Waterbury, Conn., on April 9, 1926. From 1942 to 1944, he was engaged in broadcast and communication system engineering and from 1944 to 1947, he was with the U.S. Army Signal Corps, principally as Chief of Communications, Southern Islands Command, Southwest Pacific Theater. From 1947 to 1949, he was chief engineer of Radio Station WWCO, Waterbury, Conn. In 1949-1951, he was an instructor at the Ward School of Electronics of the University of Hartford, Conn. He has been at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., since 1951, and the M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory since 1953, where he has conducted ionosphere research, electronic circuit and system design, and mathematical research. He was engaged in basic research in mathematics, and some occasional teaching in the M.I. T. Department of Mathematics, while continuing his association with the Lincoln Laboratory. He was a Gerard Swope Fellow during the 1955-1956 academic year. He received a bachelors degree in mathematics from M.I.T. in 1955 and a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1965. He was a registered professional engineer in Connecticut, a member of Sigma Xi and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and an Institutional Member of the American Mathematical Society. Brennan was a founder of the Hudson Institute in 1961 with Herman Kahn, and conducted studies and research for the Government. Brennan also served as a consultant to the Department of State, the Department of Defense, the Executive Office of the President and to several research organizations. Brennan died on April 18th, 1980."
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- Title
- Arms Control, Disarmament, and National Security
- Author
- Brennan, Donald G. (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. Previous owner's stamp on fep. Minor page soiling.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint. Second printing
- Publisher
- George Braziller
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- Herman Kahn, Doak Barnett, Bechhoefer, Kenneth Boulding, Paul Doty, Erich Fromm, Hubert Humphrey, Henry Kissinger, Arthur Larson, Morton Halperin, Edward Teller, Jerome Wiesner, Thomas Schelling, Raymon Aron, Alastair Buchan
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