15 Facts About Carl Kaysen

Carl Kaysen was an American academic, policy advisor and international security specialist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-chair of the Committee on International Security Studies at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Carl Kaysen is the father of Girl, Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen.

Carl Kaysen was married for 50 years to Annette Neutra until her death in 1990.

Carl Kaysen worked for President John F Kennedy as Deputy National Security Advisor, and was directly under National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy.

On President Kennedy's orders, Carl Kaysen prepared a report on how to utilize the US nuclear arsenal to preemptively destroy the Soviet Union's nuclear capacity and its ability to retaliate with nuclear weapons.

Carl Kaysen was a good friend of long-serving Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, whom he had met at Harvard.

Carl Kaysen was born in Philadelphia, the son of Elizabeth and Samuel Carl Kaysen.

Carl Kaysen did graduate study at Columbia University from 1940 to 1946.

Carl Kaysen co-authored Peace Operations by the United Nations: The Case for a Volunteer Military Force and co-edited The United States and the Fundamental Criminal Court: National Security and Fundamental Law.

Carl Kaysen edited and contributed to a volume of essays, The American Corporation Today.

Carl Kaysen served as associate dean, Graduate School of Public Administration, Harvard University, from 1960 to 1966.

Carl Kaysen was named Lucius N Littauer Professor of Political Economy, at Harvard University from 1964 to 1966.

Carl Kaysen served as Director of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1966 to 1976, taking over the position from J Robert Oppenheimer.

Carl Kaysen had been a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University and a Guggenheim Fellow, and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

Carl Kaysen had spinal stenosis in the final decade of his life.