Up for auction a RARE! "Nuclear Expert" Gerald Johnson Signed TLS Dated 1961.

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Gerald Woodrow Johnson (September 16,

1917 – April 7, 2005) was born in Spangle, Spokane County, Washington. He

attended Washington State

University where he got his master's degree; earned a PhD in

1947 from the University of California,

Berkeley. in the 1950s he oversaw nuclear testing in Nevada and in the Pacific. He became director of Project Plowshare, researching the uses of peaceful nuclear

explosions. In the late '70s he was a representative to the

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II and to the Comprehensive

Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty negotiations.