Paul H. Nitze

Paul H. Nitze was the author of "NSC-68 (1950), and of the Gaither Report (1957)." He served as assistant secretary of defense for John F. Kennedy. "In the 1970s Nitze organized the Committee on the Present Danger, an anti-detente group, many of whose members joined the Ronald Reagan Administration. Nitze served as chief disarmament negotiator for Reagan administration...."

Nitze died of pneumonia on 19 October, 2004.

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 * Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University