Packet 4: Bonus 10
In 1982, this man took a famous “walk in the woods” with Yuli Kvitsinsky outside Geneva that offered a compromise to the original “Zero Option” proposal. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Deputy Secretary of Defense. David Callahan’s biography of this man, Dangerous Capabilities, chronicles his role in negotiations during the SALT conferences and the INF Treaty.
ANSWER: Paul Nitze [or Paul Henry Nitze]
[10m] Nitze authored much of the Gaither Report on nuclear deterrence for this group. Nitze excluded most of George Kennan’s analysis in a policy paper commonly named for this group and the number 68.
ANSWER: United States National Security Council [or NSC; accept NSC 68]
[10e] Nitze described his time “at the center of decision” in Washington in his memoir titled From Hiroshima to this Soviet policy of openness often paired with perestroika.
ANSWER: glasnost
<Editors, American History> | M. Playoffs 4 (Editors 4)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | Pittsburgh | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Bruin | Penn State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Cambridge | Texas | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Chicago A | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Columbia A | Maryland A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Georgetown | Maryland B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Indiana | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Johns Hopkins | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| MIT | Illinois A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Minnesota | WashU | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Northwestern B | Illinois B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Ohio State | Virginia | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Purdue | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Rutgers | NYU B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Stanford A | Virginia Tech | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Stanford B | Michigan | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Swarthmore | North Carolina | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Toronto B | UCLA | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley A | Harvard | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| UC Berkeley B | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| UCF | Cornell | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Vanderbilt | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Waterloo | Brown | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 24 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |