Gaither Report

Deterrence & Survival in the Nuclear Age, commonly referred to as the Gaither report, is a US government report concerning strategy to prepare against the perceived threat of a nuclear attack from the Soviet Union. It was submitted to the United States National Security Council and the president in November 1957.

It was prepared by a panel constituted as part of the Science Advisory Committee, at that time part of the Office of Defense Mobilization. The report's common name stems from the panel's first chairman H. Rowan Gaither.