Anne Hessing Cahn is a political author who holds a doctorate in political science from

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. She was notable for her criticism of the

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among other US agencies and leaders, particularly

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and other aspects of the last days of the

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Biography

Cahn was Scholar in Residence at The

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. She served the US Government as Chief of the Social Impact Staff at the

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(1977–81), Special Assistant to the

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(1980–81), and president and executive director of the Committee for National Security (1982–88). In 2001 she chaired the board of directors, fo
20/20 Vision
a private organization founded to "increase citizen participation in public policy decisions on energy, security and the environment." She was also on the board of directors for the

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or USIP, established in 1984, which is an independent, nonpartisan, national institution established and funded by the United States Congress. Cahn was married to physicist

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, who died in 2016. She has three children (Martin Cahn, a physician in Seattle; Andy Cahn, a science teacher in Kenmore, Washington; and Lorie Cahn, an environmental scientist in Jackson, Wyoming), and six grandchildren.

Selected works

*Eggheads and warheads: scientists and the

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. Anne Hessing Cahn. Cambridge, MA : Science and Public Policy Program, Dept. of Political Science and Center for International Studies, Mass. Institute of Technology, c1971. c1971. *The Future of the Sea-Based Deterrent by Anne H. Cahn, Bernard T. Feld Kosta Tsipis, The MIT Press (1974) *“Determinants of the Nuclear Option: The Case of Iran,” by Anne Hessing Cahn, in Onkar S. Marwah and Ann Schulz, eds., Nuclear Proliferation and the Near-Nuclear Countries (Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger, 1975), pp. 185–204. *Lasers: For war and peace by Anne H. Cahn, Center for the Study of Armament and Disarmament, California State University (1975) *Controlling Future Arms Trade. Anne Hessing Cahn, Joseph Kruzel, Peter M. Dawkins and

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. McGraw-Hill (for the

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/1980s Project), 1977, 210 pp. (see review at:
Foreign Affairs (magazine)
*Tension Between Opposites: Reflections on the Practice and Theory of Politics, review by Anne Hessing Cahn, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
Team B; The Trillion-dollar Experiment
Anne Hessing Cahn, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, April 1993, Volume 49, No. 03 *Killing Détente: The Right Attacks the CIA. Anne Hessing Cahn. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998 (see review at

References

External links

democracyinaction.org
re: 20/20 Vision (organization)
2020vision publication
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