Roberta Wohlstetter, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Roberta Wohlstetter

American academic

Date of Birth: 22-Aug-1912

Date of Death: 06-Jan-2007

Profession: historian, political scientist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Roberta Wohlstetter

  • Roberta Mary Morgan, better known by her married name of Roberta Wohlstetter (August 22, 1912 - January 6, 2007), was one of America's most important historians of military intelligence.
  • Her most influential work is Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision.
  • The former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, is said to have required that his aides read it.
  • Indeed, it was brought up during discussions of intelligence failures leading to the successful al-Qaeda attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.She was the daughter of Edmund M.
  • Morgan, Jr., a noted Harvard law professor who helped to simplify the federal rules of civil procedure and to modernize the U.S.
  • code of military justice.
  • Her husband was the late nuclear strategist Albert Wohlstetter. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan jointly with her husband in 1985.
  • Reagan said: Roberta Wohlstetter, a generation ahead of her time, asserted her influence in areas dominated by and, in some cases, reserved for men.
  • She rose above all obstacles and has had a profound influence.
  • Her inquiries went to the heart of the system of our society, focusing on essential questions.
  • Her analysis of the problems of terrorism, intelligence, and warning and, with Albert [Wohlstetter], the problem of nuclear deterrence broke new ground and opened new alternatives for policymakers.
  • I daresay that she has blankly enjoyed posing the same penetrating questions to her husband that she has to the intellectual and political leaders of the country.
  • And that is certainly one explanation for the clarity and persuasiveness of his own voluminous words on strategy, politics, and world affairs. Wohlstetter worked for the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research organization based in Santa Monica, California, from 1948 to 1965 and continued to be a consultant through 2002. Roberta Morgan Wohlstetter died at 4:00 a.m.
  • on January 6, 2007 at New York Hospital in New York City.
  • She was 94 years old.
  • She was survived by her daughter Joan Wohlstetter-Hall.

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