Team B: The trillion dollar experiment

Journal Article · Thu Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1993 · Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; (United States)

OSTI ID:6667719

Cahn, A H; Prados, J

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.

• OSTI ID: 6667719
• Journal Information: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; (United States), Journal Name: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; (United States) Vol. 49:3; ISSN BASIAP; ISSN 0096-5243
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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