Richard L Garwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5700079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard L Garwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard L |
| FAMILY NAME | Garwin |
| SIGNATURE | GARWIN R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How to avoid nuclear war with China
The United States is in a developing military confrontation with China over Taiwan. China has built long-distance precision strike missiles to prevent US Navy task forces from participating effectively. The early Cold War confrontation between the Soviet Union and United States over West Berlin provides a relevant precedent. There is a significant probability a war between China and the United States could escalate to nuclear threats or even use.…
HEU Done It
Space Weapons
October 01 2004 Space Weapons: Crossing the U.S. Rubicon Bruce M. DeBlois, Bruce M. DeBlois Director of Systems Integration at BAE SYSTEMS, Reston, Virginia. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Richard L. Garwin, Richard L. Garwin IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM, Yorktown Heights, New York. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar R. Scott Kemp, R. Scott K…
Space Diplomacy
Defending America
Journal Article Defending America: The Case for Limited National Missile Defense Get access Defending America: The Case for Limited National Missile Defense by James M. Lindsay and Michael E. O'Hanlon. Washington, The Brookings Institution Press, 2001. 258 pp. $24.95. Richard L. Garwin Richard L. Garwin Council on Foreign Relations Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 117, Is…
Can the world do without nuclear power? Can the world live with nuclear power
Nuclear power produces almost a fifth of the world's electricity at present. Its cost is low enough that in countries with centralised grids nuclear plants could cover essentially all electrical needs. Doubling the world's consumption of electrical energy and providing all this by nuclear generation would exhaust the three million tonne assured terrestrial uranium supply in a few years, but the four billion tonnes of uranium in the oceans could s…
Can the world do without nuclear power? Can the world live with nuclear power
The wrong plan
The current proposals to construct a system of hit to kill interceptors as a safeguard against missiles which might be launched against the USA by a rogue state are shown in this paper to be badly flawed. Any nation with the ability to develop and construct an intercontinental ballistic missile would also likely be capable of employing countermeasures against interception. In short, the system would be unlikely to work against a missile travellin…
A defense that will not defend
The current defense system, as planned, will not defend against even four or five suitably equipped missiles. We are far from being ready to make a deployment decision. There is a better way
Nuclear Reaction
Views on science advice for the US government
National Security Space Policy
Strategic Defense Initiative
Will Strategic Submarines be Vulnerable
in view of the increasing emphasis placed upon strategic submarines under the Reagan strategic program announced October 2, 1981, it is of interest to review the prospects for survivability of such submarines in the foreseeable future. This is particularly timely because the Scowcroft Commission has confirmed the U.S. inability to identify a survivable land-basing posture for the MX missile and because the Soviet Union will presumably soon be fac…
Presidential science advising
Launch Under Attack to Redress Minuteman Vulnerability
Nuclear Weapons and World Politics
Effective Military Technology for the 1980s
Future Forces and Future Policies
Pertinent Highlights of the SALT Agreements: The SALT I Agreements signed in Moscow May 26, 1972, were the result of more than three years of negotiation by the Nixon Administration. They provide the basis for a great improvement in national security. The ABM Treaty recognizes the technical reality that neither the Soviet Union nor the United States can defend its population or industry against ballistic missile attack and that it is not simply w…
Anti‐ballistic missile systems
Space Weapons
October 01 2004 Space Weapons: Crossing the U.S. Rubicon Bruce M. DeBlois, Bruce M. DeBlois Director of Systems Integration at BAE SYSTEMS, Reston, Virginia. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Richard L. Garwin, Richard L. Garwin IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM, Yorktown Heights, New York. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar R. Scott Kemp, R. Scott K…
Will Strategic Submarines be Vulnerable
in view of the increasing emphasis placed upon strategic submarines under the Reagan strategic program announced October 2, 1981, it is of interest to review the prospects for survivability of such submarines in the foreseeable future. This is particularly timely because the Scowcroft Commission has confirmed the U.S. inability to identify a survivable land-basing posture for the MX missile and because the Soviet Union will presumably soon be fac…
Launch Under Attack to Redress Minuteman Vulnerability
Nuclear Weapons and World Politics
Defending America
Journal Article Defending America: The Case for Limited National Missile Defense Get access Defending America: The Case for Limited National Missile Defense by James M. Lindsay and Michael E. O'Hanlon. Washington, The Brookings Institution Press, 2001. 258 pp. $24.95. Richard L. Garwin Richard L. Garwin Council on Foreign Relations Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 117, Is…
HEU Done It
Space Diplomacy
Can the world do without nuclear power? Can the world live with nuclear power
Nuclear power produces almost a fifth of the world's electricity at present. Its cost is low enough that in countries with centralised grids nuclear plants could cover essentially all electrical needs. Doubling the world's consumption of electrical energy and providing all this by nuclear generation would exhaust the three million tonne assured terrestrial uranium supply in a few years, but the four billion tonnes of uranium in the oceans could s…
National Security Space Policy
Effective Military Technology for the 1980s
Anti‐ballistic missile systems
Future Forces and Future Policies
Pertinent Highlights of the SALT Agreements: The SALT I Agreements signed in Moscow May 26, 1972, were the result of more than three years of negotiation by the Nixon Administration. They provide the basis for a great improvement in national security. The ABM Treaty recognizes the technical reality that neither the Soviet Union nor the United States can defend its population or industry against ballistic missile attack and that it is not simply w…
Effective Military Technology for the 1980s
Nuclear Weapons and World Politics
Launch Under Attack to Redress Minuteman Vulnerability
Presidential science advising
Will Strategic Submarines be Vulnerable
in view of the increasing emphasis placed upon strategic submarines under the Reagan strategic program announced October 2, 1981, it is of interest to review the prospects for survivability of such submarines in the foreseeable future. This is particularly timely because the Scowcroft Commission has confirmed the U.S. inability to identify a survivable land-basing posture for the MX missile and because the Soviet Union will presumably soon be fac…
Strategic Defense Initiative
National Security Space Policy
Views on science advice for the US government
A defense that will not defend
The current defense system, as planned, will not defend against even four or five suitably equipped missiles. We are far from being ready to make a deployment decision. There is a better way
Nuclear Reaction
Can the world do without nuclear power? Can the world live with nuclear power
Nuclear power produces almost a fifth of the world's electricity at present. Its cost is low enough that in countries with centralised grids nuclear plants could cover essentially all electrical needs. Doubling the world's consumption of electrical energy and providing all this by nuclear generation would exhaust the three million tonne assured terrestrial uranium supply in a few years, but the four billion tonnes of uranium in the oceans could s…
Can the world do without nuclear power? Can the world live with nuclear power
The wrong plan
The current proposals to construct a system of hit to kill interceptors as a safeguard against missiles which might be launched against the USA by a rogue state are shown in this paper to be badly flawed. Any nation with the ability to develop and construct an intercontinental ballistic missile would also likely be capable of employing countermeasures against interception. In short, the system would be unlikely to work against a missile travellin…
Defending America
Journal Article Defending America: The Case for Limited National Missile Defense Get access Defending America: The Case for Limited National Missile Defense by James M. Lindsay and Michael E. O'Hanlon. Washington, The Brookings Institution Press, 2001. 258 pp. $24.95. Richard L. Garwin Richard L. Garwin Council on Foreign Relations Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 117, Is…
Space Diplomacy
Space Weapons
October 01 2004 Space Weapons: Crossing the U.S. Rubicon Bruce M. DeBlois, Bruce M. DeBlois Director of Systems Integration at BAE SYSTEMS, Reston, Virginia. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Richard L. Garwin, Richard L. Garwin IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM, Yorktown Heights, New York. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar R. Scott Kemp, R. Scott K…
HEU Done It
How to avoid nuclear war with China
The United States is in a developing military confrontation with China over Taiwan. China has built long-distance precision strike missiles to prevent US Navy task forces from participating effectively. The early Cold War confrontation between the Soviet Union and United States over West Berlin provides a relevant precedent. There is a significant probability a war between China and the United States could escalate to nuclear threats or even use.…
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