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Mk-45 5-inch/62-caliber gun - Atlantic
Ocean - January 2012
Atlantic Ocean - January 2012
Atlantic Ocean - January 2012
Atlantic Ocean - January 2012
Atlantic Ocean - January 2012
Norfolk, Virginia - December 2011
SH-60B Seahawk (HSL-46) - Atlantic Ocean
- December 2011
Eastport, Maine - July 2011
Mk-38 Mod.1 machine gun system - Atlantic
Ocean - May 2011
Atlantic Ocean - May 2011
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - May 2011
Atlantic Ocean - April 2011
Atlantic Ocean - April 2011
Atlantic Ocean - April 2011
Atlantic Ocean - April 2011
Atlantic Ocean - April 2011
Mk-45 Mod.4 5-inch/62-caliber gun -
Atlantic Ocean - July 2008
USS Monterey (CG-61), USS Nitze (DDG-94)
and USS The Sullivans (DDG-68) - New York - May 2008
New York - May 2008
Atlantic Ocean - May 2008
USS Nitze (DDG-94), USNS Supply (T-AOE 6)
and USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) - Atlantic Ocean - March 2008
Atlantic Ocean - March 2008
USS Nitze (DDG-94), USNS Supply (T-AOE 6)
and USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) - Atlantic Ocean - March 2008
Norfolk, Virginia - July 2007
Atlantic Ocean - October 2006
New York - May 2006
New York - May 2006
commissioning - Norfolk, Virginia - March
5, 2005
commissioning - Norfolk, Virginia - March
5, 2005
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US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary
of Defense Robert S. McNamara and Secretary of the Navy Paul H. Nitze - 1964
Secretary of the Navy Paul H. Nitze with
Senator Thomas H. Kuchel (CA) and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara -
1964
Secretary of the Navy Paul H. Nitze (left)
with Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and Deputy Secretary of Defense
Cyrus R. Vance (right) - 1965
Paul H. Nitze (right) receives the
Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal from Secretary of
Defense Melvin R. Laird - January 1973
US Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen
(left) with Paul H. Nitze - 2001
Paul H. Nitze with US Secretary of
Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld (right) - 2001
 
Washington, D. C. - September 30, 2004
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Paul Henry Nitze (January 16, 1907 – October
19, 2004):
Paul Henry Nitze was a high-ranking United States
government official who helped shape Cold War defense policy over the course
of numerous presidential administrations.
Nitze was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. His German ancestors came from the
region of Magdeburg. Paul Nitze's father, William Nitze was a professor of
Romance Linguistics who concluded his career at the University of Chicago. In
his memoir, From Hiroshima to Glasnost, Paul Nitze describes how as a young
boy he witnessed the outbreak of World War I while traveling in Germany with
his father, mother, and sister, arriving in Munich just in time to be struck
by the city crowds' patriotic enthusiasm for the imminent conflict.
Nitze attended the Hotchkiss School and graduated from Harvard University in
1928 and entered the field of investment banking.
In 1928-1929 the Chicago brokerage firm of Bacon, Whipple and Company sent
Nitze to Europe. Upon his return, he heard Clarence Dillon predict the
depression and the decline of the importance of finance. Having attained
financial independence through the sale to Revlon of his interest in a French
laboratory producing pharmaceutical products in the U.S., Nitze took an
intellectual sabbatical that included a year of graduate study at Harvard in
sociology, philosophy, and constitutional and international law. In 1929 he
joined investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. where he remained until
founding his own firm, P. H. Nitze & Co, in 1938. He returned to Dillon,
Read as Vice-President from 1939 through to 1941.
In 1932, he married Phyllis Pratt, daughter of John Teele Pratt, Standard Oil
financier and Ruth Baker Pratt Republican Congresswoman for New York. She
died in 1987. They had four children: Peter, William, Phyllis Anina (Nina)
and Heidi. He was married to Elisabeth Scott Porter from 1993 until his death
in 2004.
Nitze's brother-in-law Walter Paepcke founded the Aspen Institute and Aspen
Skiing Company. Nitze continued to ski in Aspen until well into his 80s.
Nitze entered government service during World War II, serving first on the
staff of James Forrestal when Forrestal became 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. This experience framed many of his later feelings about the power of
nuclear weapons and the necessity of arms control.
In the early post-war era, he served in the Truman Administration as Director
of Policy Planning for the State Department (1950–1953). He was also
principal author in 1950 of a highly influential secret National Security
Council document (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 the Johns Hopkins University.
Nitze co-founded SAIS with Christian Herter in 1943 and the world renowned
graduate school, based in Washington, D.C., is named in his honor. His
publications during this period include U.S. Foreign Policy: 1945-1955. In
1961 President Kennedy appointed Nitze Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Security Affairs and in 1963 he became the Secretary of the
Navy, serving until 1967. According to the Navy "During his time as the
Navy secretary, he raised the level of attention given to quality of Service
issues. 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), and Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Affairs (1973-1976). Later, fearing Soviet rearmament, he
opposed the ratification of SALT II (1979).
Paul Nitze was a co-founder of Team B, a 1970s intelligence think tank that
challenged the National Intelligence Estimates provided by the CIA. The Team
B reports became the intellectual foundation for the idea of "the window
of vulnerability" and of the massive arms buildup that began toward the
end of the Carter administration and accelerated under President Ronald
Reagan. Team B came to the conclusion that the Soviets had developed new
weapons of mass destruction and had aggressive strategies with regard to a
potential nuclear war. Team B's analysis of Soviet weapon systems was later
proven to be largely exaggerated.
According to Dr. Anne Cahn (Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1977-1980)
"if you go through most of Team B's specific allegations about weapons
systems, and you just examine them one by one, they were all wrong." Nonetheless,
some still claim that its conclusions about Soviet strategical aims were
largely proven to be true, although this hardly squares with the elevation of
Gorbachev in 1985.
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.
For more than forty years, Nitze was one of the chief architects of U.S.
policy toward the Soviet Union. President Reagan awarded Nitze the
Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985 for his contributions to the freedom
and security of the United States. In 1991, he was awarded the prestigious
United States Military Academy's Sylvanus Thayer Award for his commitment to
the Academy's ideals of "Duty, Honor, Country".
Nitze died on October 19, 2004 in the Georgetown area of Washington, DC.
source: wikipedia
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