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April 7, 1924: Helen Talbot, a pinup girl of the World War II era who had a brief career as leading lady in Republic movie serials, low-budget westerns, is born (as Helen Darling) in Concordia, Kansas. Died January 29, 2010 in La Jolla, California. She also had a lead role in Federal Operator 99, her first serial.




A Strategy of Containment: Paul Nitze's NSC-68, the "blueprint of the Cold War" about US foreign policy, a Top-Secret report completed by the Department of State’s Policy Planning Staff on April 7, 1950. It concluded that the only plausible way to deter the Soviet Union was for Truman to support a massive build-up of both conventional and nuclear arms. It suggested that the Govt increase taxes and reduce other expenditures.


Paul Henry Nitze (January 16, 1907 – October 19, 2004) was an American businessman and government official who served as United States Deputy Secretary of Defense, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, and Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department. He is best known for being the principal author of NSC 68 and the co-founder of Team B. He helped shape U.S. Cold War defense policy over the course of numerous presidential administrations.

NSC-68 - Office of The Historian

United States Objectives and Programs for National Security (NSC 68)

Sorcerers and apprentices

Paul Nitze entered government service during WWII as an administrative assistant to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In 1942, he became finance director of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, working for Nelson Rockefeller. In 1943 he became chief of the Metals and Minerals Branch of the Board of Economic Warfare, until he was named director, Foreign Procurement and Development Branch of the Foreign Economic Administration later that year. From 1944 to 1946, Nitze served as director and then as Vice Chairman of the Strategic Bombing Survey for which President Harry S. Truman awarded him the Legion of Merit. One of his early government assignments was to visit Japan in the immediate aftermath of the nuclear attacks and assess the damage.

In the early postwar era, he served in the Truman Administration as Director of Policy Planning for the State Department (1950–1953). He was also the principal author in 1950 of the highly influential but secret National Security Council policy paper, NSC 68, which provided the strategic outline for increased U.S. expenditures to counter the perceived threat of Soviet armament.

From 1953 to 1961, Nitze served as president of the Foreign Service Educational Foundation while concurrently serving as associate of the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research and the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University. In 1956 he attended the Project Nobska anti-submarine warfare conference.

Nitze co-founded the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) with Christian Herter in 1943. His publications include “U.S. Foreign Policy: 1945–1955.” In 1961, President Kennedy appointed Nitze Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. In 1963, Nitze became the Secretary of the Navy, serving until 1967. His many achievements included establishing the first Personnel Policy Board and retention task force (the Alford Board), and obtaining targeted personnel bonuses. He lengthened commanding officer tours and raised command responsibility pay.

Following his term as Secretary of the Navy, he served as Deputy Secretary of Defense (1967–1969), as a member of the U.S. delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) (1969–1973). Later, he opposed the ratification of SALT II (1979).

Paul Nitze was a cofounder of Team B, a 1970s intelligence think tank that challenged the National Intelligence Estimates provided by the CIA.

Nitze was President Ronald Reagan's chief negotiator of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (1981–1984). In 1984, Nitze was named Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State on Arms Control.

Commander, Naval Surface Force Atlantic

USS Nitze launching Tomahawk missiles at Houthi radar sites during the action in the Bab-al Mandeb Strait in October of 2016:





April 7, 1969: The Internet's symbolic birth date: ARPANET - Publication of RFC 1, titled "Host Software", was written by Steve Crocker of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).




April 7th is International Beaver Day. In 1998, Royal Navy sailors wrote a letter to Navy News to complain that HMS Beaver and other warships named for "fluffy animals" were bad for morale. The sailors believed that "inoffensive, soft and cuddly and occasionally downright dull" names prevented them from making a strong impression on other nations.


BTW, Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Beaver from 1656 to the Broadsword-class frigate HMS Beaver (F93) in 1982.


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