Anne Hessing Cahn is political author, who holds a doctorate in political science from MIT. She is notable for her criticism of the CIA among other US agencies and leaders, particularly Team B

Team B

Team B was a competitive analysis exercise commissioned by the Central Intelligence Agency in the 1970s to analyze threats the Soviet Union posed to the security of the United States. Team B, approved by then Director of Central Intelligence George H. W. Bush, was composed of "outside experts" who...

 and other aspects of the last days of the Cold War

Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...

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She is currently Scholar in Residence at The American University

American University

American University is a private, Methodist, liberal arts, and research university in Washington, D.C. The university was chartered by an Act of Congress on December 5, 1892 as "The American University", which was approved by President Benjamin Harrison on February 24, 1893...

. She served the US Government as Chief of the Social Impact Staff at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

The U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency was established as an independent agency of the United States government by the Arms Control and Disarmament Act , September 26, 1961, a bill drafted by presidential adviser John J. McCloy. Its predecessor was the U.S. Disarmament Administration, part...

 (1977–81), Special Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (1980–81), and President and Executive Director of the Committee for National Security (1982–88). In 2001 she Chaired the Board of Directors, for 20/20 Vision, a private organization founded to "increase citizen participation in public policy decisions on energy, security and the environment." She is also on the Board of Directors for the United States Institute of Peace

United States Institute of Peace

The United States Institute of Peace was created by Congress as a non-partisan, federal institution that works to prevent or end violent conflict around the world...

 or USIP, established in 1984, is an independent, nonpartisan, national institution established and funded by the United States Congress.

She is married to physicist John W. Cahn

John W. Cahn

John Werner Cahn is an American scientist and winner of the 1998 National Medal of Science. He was a professor in the department of Materials Science at MIT from 1964-1978. Since 1977, he has held a position at the National Institute of Standards and Technology . Dr...

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Books & articles by Anne Hessing Cahn

• Eggheads and warheads: scientists and the ABM
  Anti-ballistic missile
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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 Jacques Huntzinger. McGraw-Hill (for the Council on Foreign Relations/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: Foreign Affairs (magazine)