This institution's immediate predecessor was organized under the auspices of the Douglas Aircraft Company, and its first report was a 1946 feasibility study on the construction of an orbital satellite.  
This institution's immediate predecessor was organized under the auspices of the Douglas Aircraft Company, and its first report was a 1946 feasibility study on the construction of an orbital satellite.  The Defense Department's "Whiz Kids" were recruited from this institution.  Merrill Flood and Melvin Dresher developed the prisoner's dilemma while working at this institution.  One work written at this institution divides military deterrence into three "types," proposes a (*) "Doomsday Machine," and analyzes the possibility of a survivable nuclear war.  This institution's publications include A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates.  For 10 points, the Air Force founded what think tank headquartered in Santa Monica, where Herman Kahn wrote On Thermonuclear War?
This institution's immediate predecessor was organized under the auspices of the Douglas Aircraft Company, and its first report was a 1946 feasibility study on the construction of an orbital satellite.  
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