
Oddly, I cannot find the Gaither Report online. It was declassified in 1976 by the now-defunct congressional Joint Committee on Defense Production. Long before then, it was the subject of several articles, most notably Morton Halperin's "The Gaither Committee and the Policy Process," World Politics, April 1961. The material here comes from research I did for my book about the nuclear strategists, The Wizards of Armageddon (Simon & Schuster, 1983; reprinted by Stanford University Press, 1991). The Gaither Report is covered in Chapters 8-9, which is based mainly on declassified documents in the Eisenhower Library and interviews with participants, including Paul Nitze.
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