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Title: Team B: The trillion dollar experiment

Abstract

Team B was an experiment in competetive threat assessments approved by the director of the CIA at that time, George Bush. Teams of experts were to make independent assessments of highly classified data used by the intelligence community to assess Soviet strategic forces in the yearly National Intelligence Estimates. In this article, two experts report on how a group of Cold War outside experts were invited to second-guess the policies of the CIA. The question explored here is whether or not these outside experts of the 1970s contributed to the military buildup of the 1980s.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
6667719
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 49:3; Journal ID: ISSN 0096-5243
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; US CIA; HISTORICAL ASPECTS; USA; NATIONAL SECURITY; USSR; NATIONAL DEFENSE; BUDGETS; GOVERNMENT POLICIES; MILITARY EQUIPMENT; ASIA; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EQUIPMENT; EUROPE; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NORTH AMERICA; SECURITY; US ORGANIZATIONS; 450000* - Military Technology, Weaponry, & National Defense; 290200 - Energy Planning & Policy- Economics & Sociology

Citation Formats

Cahn, A H, and Prados, J. Team B: The trillion dollar experiment. United States: N. p., 1993. Web.
Cahn, A H, & Prados, J. Team B: The trillion dollar experiment. United States.
Cahn, A H, and Prados, J. 1993. "Team B: The trillion dollar experiment". United States.
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abstractNote = {Team B was an experiment in competetive threat assessments approved by the director of the CIA at that time, George Bush. Teams of experts were to make independent assessments of highly classified data used by the intelligence community to assess Soviet strategic forces in the yearly National Intelligence Estimates. In this article, two experts report on how a group of Cold War outside experts were invited to second-guess the policies of the CIA. The question explored here is whether or not these outside experts of the 1970s contributed to the military buildup of the 1980s.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6667719}, journal = {Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; (United States)},
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volume = 49:3,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1993},
month = {Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1993}
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