John Newhouse

Wilfred John Newhouse (February 6, 1929 – December 10, 2016) was an American journalist and author. He was best known as the author of the book War and Peace in the Nuclear Age, published in 1989 as companion to a PBS television series. During his career in journalism, Newhouse also wrote about the influence of foreign lobbies on us politics for Foreign Affairs magazine. He also had a second career as a government official with the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the United States State Department. At this department, he was a negotiator of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) II. After five years on the committee, the Ford Foundation offered Newhouse a grant to live, study and write in Paris about European issues.

Publications

Books

US Troops in Europe: Issues, Costs and Choices. (1972). Cold Dawn – The Story of Salt. (1973). John Newhouse. The Nuclear Age: From Hiroshima to Star Wars. (1989). Imperial America: The Bush Assault on World Order. (September 14, 2004). De Gaulle and the Anglo-Saxons. (De Gaulle and the Anglo-Saxons). (April 29, 1970) Europe Adrift. (1997). War And Peace In The Nuclear Age. (1989). The Sporty Game: The High-Risk Competitive Business of Making and Selling Commercial Airliners. (1982). Boeing versus Airbus: The Inside Story of the Greatest International Competition in Business. (2008).