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+category: "Nuclear Scientists & Programs"
 tags:
   - Person
-  - Academic
-  - Government_Official
-  - USA
-  - National_Security_Council
-  - Harvard
-  - Kennedy_Administration
-  - Nuclear_Proliferation
+  - Nuclear
   - Israel
-  - Princeton
+summary: "Carl Kaysen is a distinguished political economist who served as deputy assistant to the President for national security affairs."
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 Carl Kaysen is a distinguished political economist who served as deputy assistant to the President for national security affairs. He moved from the Harvard faculty to the [[National Security Council]] in 1961. Kaysen recalled that President [[John F. Kennedy]] was intellectually and emotionally committed to a halt in the spread of nuclear weapons, and that nonproliferation was a topic Kennedy would discuss for hours.[^1]
 
 In the fall of 1966, Kaysen became the newly appointed director of the prestigious Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. He learned that [[Lewis L. Strauss]] had used his influence to get [[Ernst David Bergmann]] a two-month appointment as a visiting fellow there. Kaysen was surprised to learn that Strauss, despite his public stance against nuclear proliferation, was privately in favor of a nuclear-armed [[Israel]].[^1]