James Thomson

President Emeritus, @RANDCorporation. Practicing Econ & PolySci w/o license. Opinions mine; retweets not endorsements.

[James Thomson @thomson0145]

@ConStelz He, along with Uwe Nerlich, were great partners with RAND in the 90s, when the SWP was in Ebenhausen.

[James Thomson @thomson0145]

Frank Carlucci

[Bruno Tertrais @BrunoTertrais]

The Oracle (3)

[James Thomson @thomson0145]

@FHeisbourg You were right the first time. Seaborg was at UC Berekely, not UCLA. UCB is often refered to as Cal or UCAL because it is the original campus.

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@hidayj @risenc @nytimes @Jim_Dobbins @RANDCorporation Somebody, probably Clinton, wanted Jim to be ambassador to Argentina. Helms blocked it. It was a permanent block on any confirmed job.

[James Thomson @thomson0145]

via @NYTimes Jim Dobbins, “one of the best Foreign Service officers of his generation “. We’ll, maybe the best; I knew a lot of them. I’m proud that we had him as a colleague at RAND. https://t.co/gNCDeRI5Cu

[James Thomson @thomson0145]

I also remember in 1977 that she got a security violation from, I guess, the FBI. She left some papers out. A couple of days later a copy arrived with the words “no more, signed JC. I thought she must’ve kept it but she told me later that she lost it. Carter’s micromanagement.

[James Thomson @thomson0145]

Friend and teacher for life. I had the good fortune of meeting Sam Huntington, Dick Betts and Catherine on PRM-10 in 1977 at the NSC staff in May. They were the drafters of the global assessment. The Dream Team.

[James Thomson @thomson0145]

Friend and teacher for life. I had the good fortune of meeting Sam Huntington, Dick Betts and Catherine on PRM-10 in 1977 at the NSC staff in May. They were the drafters of the global assessment. The Dream Team.

[Lawrence Freedman @LawDavF]

Cathy Kellelher had an incisive intellect, with high standards and a generous heart. She was a vital role model for women scholars but also a natural mentor - to men (inc me) as well as women. Her memory truly is for a blessing.

[James Thomson @thomson0145]

Interesting. When I was an undergrad, I worked on payloads for high altitude balloons to detect cosmic rays. It was the easiest way to do that then

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

I remember there was and probably still is a research program launching high-altitude balloons from northern 🇸🇪 and then having them drift over the Arctic in the direction of 🇨🇦.

[James Thomson @thomson0145]

Lloyd Morrisett, non executive chairman of RAND board during post Cold War reorientation, has passed on. Helpful and sometimes inspirational chairman. https://t.co/7adkIAni4s

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@FHeisbourg Correction: 88. I’m missing São Paulo, Orlando, Calgary, Riyadh, Rio, Kuwait, Perth, muscat, Edmonton, Adelaide, Goteburg and Nanjing. I’ve been to both San Jose‘s.

[James Thomson @thomson0145]

@FHeisbourg 89. But includes 2 where I only made an air connection.

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@monkeycageblog @washingtonpost Why?

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@RichardHaass Yes

[James Thomson @thomson0145]

Probably the biggest error in the early days of the Pandemic. The WHO didn’t really know about transmission for this virus. But rather than saying so, extrapolated confidently from previous coronaviruses.

[Bruno Tertrais @BrunoTertrais]

Thanks to @jljcolorado we know that this tweet still exists. Amazing.

[James Thomson @thomson0145]

@raypaulick What happened?

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@Joe_Nye I first met Ash in 1984 when I visited the Kennedy School with a briefing on our study on Strategic Defenses and Deterrence. He was working in the same area. It was clear that he was a unique talent. What a loss. He had much more to give.

[James Thomson @thomson0145]

@BeschlossDC I was in my 1st year at the university of New Hampshire. It was on the flight path to Pease Air Force Base, then the home to B52s and the loud KC135s. Lots of air activity,which added anxiety to a scary time.

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@ConStelz @KoriSchake Shannon O’Neill

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Really? West Europe is doing so little?

[Mick Ryan, AM @WarintheFuture]

2/ The latest data on assistance to #Ukraine is a sad story for Australia. It is a story of Government inattention and a bureaucratic aversion to risk or action from the Department of Defence. Many smaller nations have given much more. https://t.co/wVG7mGCxaX