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Harold Palmer Smith, Jr.
Harold Palmer Smith Jr.
Born
Harold Palmer Smith Jr.

(1935-11-30) November 30, 1935 (age 88)
Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Occupation(s)Professor, Consultant, DOD Official
SpouseMarian Bamford Smith (married c. 1958.)
Children3

Harold Palmer Smith Jr. (born November 30, 1935) is an American professor, consultant, and expert on

Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Atomic Energy) from June 1993 to March 1996, when the name of the position changed to Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical & Biological Defense Programs, and remained in the position until January 1998.[1]

Career

Smith holds the appointment of Distinguished Scholar in Residence with the Institute for Governmental Studies at the

University of California at Berkeley[2] (UCB) where he has been responsible for the Harold Smith Seminar Series[3]
focusing on national and international defense policy and is a major participant in its successor series.

Born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Smith attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a Sloan National Scholar, earning a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering in 1957, an M.S. degree in nuclear engineering in 1958, and a Ph.D in 1960. .[4] His doctoral thesis, Dynamics and control of nuclear rocket engines was conducted under the supervision of Alan H. Stenning.[5]

In 1960, immediately after receiving the Ph.D. degree, he joined the faculty of UCB where he published extensively on the optimal control of nuclear systems and on the interaction of radiation with surfaces. He retired as professor and chairman of the Department of Applied Science in 1976 and formed the Palmer Smith Corporation, a consulting firm specializing in management of high technology programs. The firm was retained by many of the largest defense contractors. He was one of the early principals of SAIC and RDA-Logicon and JAYCOR[6]

Smith was awarded a

White House Fellowship in 1966 and was assigned as a Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense.[7] Since that time, he has served as an advisor on numerous governmental boards on national security policy, giving particular attention to projects requiring a broad range of technical and managerial skills. Of particular note are his chairmanship of the Vulnerability Task Force of the Defense Science Board and a special study for (then) Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger on the Airborne Warning and Control System
(AWACS); a.k.a., the Smith Report.

In 1993, Smith accepted an appointment with the

On-Site Inspection Agency
reported to him. He returned to private life in 1998.

He is a Fellow of the

Arms Control Today.[13][14][15][16]

Personal life

He married Marian Bamford Smith in 1958. They have three children: Natalya (1959), Peter (1960) and Erika (1963).[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Department of Defense Key Officials" (PDF). Historical Office, OSD. 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  2. ^ "Distinguished Scholar in Residence with the Institute for Governmental Studies". Institute for Governmental Studies (IGS). Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  3. ^ Smith, Harold. "Harold Smith Defense and National Security Series". Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS). Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  4. ISBN 978-0160436116
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  5. ^ Smith, Harold Palmer (1960). Dynamics and control of nuclear rocket engines (Thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Nuclear Engineering. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  6. ^ "WMD Contracts". Department of Defense unclassified contracts involving weapons of mass destruction.
  7. ^ "1966-67 White House Fellows Briefed on NIH Programs" (PDF). The NIH Record. XVIII (23): 5, 8. November 15, 1966. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  8. ^ Smith, Harold P Jr. "Consolidating Threat Reduction". Arms Control Association. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  9. ^ Stannard, Matthew B. (October 29, 2006). "New tools for a new world order / Nuclear forensics touted as method to trace bomb materials, deterrent for rogue nations". SFGate. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  10. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  11. ^ Dellums, Hon. Ronald V. (February 4, 1998). "Tribute to Harold P. Smith" (PDF). Congressional Record: E89. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
  12. ^ Bolz, Taylor A (2009). In the Eyes of Experts, Analysis and Comments on America's Strategic Posture (PDF). Part II, 23.: United States Institute of Peace. pp. 126–134. Retrieved 13 October 2017.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  13. ^ Smith, Harold P. Jr.; Soll, Richard S. (March 1998). "Challenges of Nuclear Stockpile Stewardship Under A Comprehensive Test Ban". Arms Control Today. 28 (2). Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  14. ^ Smith, Harold P. Jr. (December 1998). "Funding CW Demilitarization In Russia: Time to Share The Burden". Arms Control Today. 28 (8). Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  15. ^ Smith, Harold P Jr.; Jeanloz, Raymond (December 2010). "Britain Leads the Way To Global Zero". Arms Control Today. 40 (10). Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  16. JSTOR 23627943
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