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Wertheim wished to study nuclear physics, but was due for a sea assignment; accordingly, he selected the [[seaplane tender]] {{ship|USS|Norton Sound||2}}, which was used to test guided missiles.<ref name=InterviewIndex /> In 1954, Wertheim enrolled at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], earning a masters in nuclear physics.<ref name=TR2018 /> That same year, he was detailed to the [[heavy cruiser]] {{USS|Los Angeles|CA-135|2}} while it had [[SSM-N-8 Regulus]] missiles embarked.<ref name=InterviewIndex /> As a lieutenant in 1955, Wertheim headed the group that worked on the design of the atmospheric reentry body of the warheads mounted onto the [[UGM-27 Polaris]].<ref name=Polaris1994>{{cite book |last=Spinardi |first=Graham |date=6 January 1994 |title=From Polaris to Trident: The Development of US Fleet Ballistic Missile Technology |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/From_Polaris_to_Trident/IhXP6Va3bvAC?hl=en&gbpv=0 |location= |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page= |isbn=9780521413572}}</ref>{{rp|53}}<ref name="Craven2002">{{cite book | first = John Pina | last= Craven | date = 2 June 2002 | title = The Silent War: The Cold War Battle Beneath the Sea | publisher = Simon and Schuster | page = 78– | isbn = 978-0-7432-4225-7 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Ih8MVZlibxYC&pg=PA78}}</ref> In June 1956, Wertheim was assigned to the [[United States Navy Special Projects Office]], originally part of the [[Bureau of Ordnance]], where he stayed until June 1961; during that time he continued the work he began in 1955, heading the Re-Entry Body Section, receiving the Navy Commendation Medal for his efforts.<ref name=Approriations1980 /> |
Wertheim wished to study nuclear physics, but was due for a sea assignment; accordingly, he selected the [[seaplane tender]] {{ship|USS|Norton Sound||2}}, which was used to test guided missiles.<ref name=InterviewIndex /> In 1954, Wertheim enrolled at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], earning a masters in nuclear physics.<ref name=TR2018 /> That same year, he was detailed to the [[heavy cruiser]] {{USS|Los Angeles|CA-135|2}} while it had [[SSM-N-8 Regulus]] missiles embarked.<ref name=InterviewIndex /> As a lieutenant in 1955, Wertheim headed the group that worked on the design of the atmospheric reentry body of the warheads mounted onto the [[UGM-27 Polaris]].<ref name=Polaris1994>{{cite book |last=Spinardi |first=Graham |date=6 January 1994 |title=From Polaris to Trident: The Development of US Fleet Ballistic Missile Technology |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/From_Polaris_to_Trident/IhXP6Va3bvAC?hl=en&gbpv=0 |location= |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page= |isbn=9780521413572}}</ref>{{rp|53}}<ref name="Craven2002">{{cite book | first = John Pina | last= Craven | date = 2 June 2002 | title = The Silent War: The Cold War Battle Beneath the Sea | publisher = Simon and Schuster | page = 78– | isbn = 978-0-7432-4225-7 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Ih8MVZlibxYC&pg=PA78}}</ref> In June 1956, Wertheim was assigned to the [[United States Navy Special Projects Office]], originally part of the [[Bureau of Ordnance]], where he stayed until June 1961; during that time he continued the work he began in 1955, heading the Re-Entry Body Section, receiving the Navy Commendation Medal for his efforts.<ref name=Approriations1980 /> |
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After assignment to the Special Projects Office, Wertheim was assigned to the [[Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake|Naval Ordnance Test Station]] in California.<ref name=Approriations1980 /> While there, Wertheim worked on the cancelled development of the [[AIM-9 Sidewinder]] for naval surface air defense, called Osprey; he was able to take that work and utilize it for the Army and Marine Corps [[Air Defense Artillery]], including having a hand in its naming, [[MIM-72 Chaparral]].<ref name=Approriations1980 /><ref name=InterviewIndex /><ref name=NAWSCL>{{cite book |last1=Lawson |first1=Cliff |title=The Station Comes of Age: History of the Navy at China Lake, California |date=2017 |publisher=Government Printing Office |isbn=9780160939709 |page=355 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BbW6amt7ywkC&dq=Chaparral+robert+wertheim&pg=PA355 |access-date=18 August 2021 |archive-url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1056938.pdf |archive-date=31 December 2017}}</ref> Chaparral being the name for a [[roadrunner]] in [[Mexican Spanish]], the [[List of U.S. state birds|state bird]] for Wertheim's home state.<ref name=InterviewIndex /><ref name=NAWSCL /> |
After assignment to the Special Projects Office, Wertheim was assigned to the [[Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake|Naval Ordnance Test Station]] in California from 1961 to 1962.<ref name=Approriations1980 /> While there, Wertheim worked on the cancelled development of the [[AIM-9 Sidewinder]] for naval surface air defense, called Osprey; he was able to take that work and utilize it for the Army and Marine Corps [[Air Defense Artillery]], including having a hand in its naming, [[MIM-72 Chaparral]].<ref name=Approriations1980 /><ref name=InterviewIndex /><ref name=NAWSCL>{{cite book |last1=Lawson |first1=Cliff |title=The Station Comes of Age: History of the Navy at China Lake, California |date=2017 |publisher=Government Printing Office |isbn=9780160939709 |page=355 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BbW6amt7ywkC&dq=Chaparral+robert+wertheim&pg=PA355 |access-date=18 August 2021 |archive-url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1056938.pdf |archive-date=31 December 2017}}</ref> Chaparral being the name for a [[roadrunner]] in [[Mexican Spanish]], the [[List of U.S. state birds|state bird]] for Wertheim's home state.<ref name=InterviewIndex /><ref name=NAWSCL /> |
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In late 1962, Wertheim was reassigned to [[the Pentagon]], serving under the Director of Defense Research and Engineering [[Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense)|Dr. Harold Brown]], whom he had met while working on the Polaris missile.<ref name=InterviewIndex /> That same year, Wertheim was tasked with writing a report for the United States to sell the United Kingdom the Polaris missile, instead of the cancelled [[GAM-87 Skybolt]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mackby |first1=Jenifer |last2=Cornish |first2=Paul |title=U.S.-UK Nuclear Cooperation After 50 Years |date=2008 |publisher=Center for Strategic & International Studies |location=Washington, D.C. |isbn=9780892065301 |pages=359–361 |others=Chatham House |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x6Zkn3IuVN0C&dq=%22Robert%20Wertheim%22&pg=PA359}}</ref> Wertheim remained at the Pentagon as the Military Assistant for Strategic Weapons until August 1965, which earned him a [[Joint Service Commendation Medal]].<ref name=Approriations1980 /> During those years, Wertheim was instrumental in having the Strategic Projects Office increase the [[UGM-73 Poseidon]]'s targeting accuracy by switching the missile's guidance system from only inertial to [[Missile guidance#Astro-inertial guidance|stellar-inertial guidance]].<ref name=Polaris1994 />{{rp|53–54}} |
In late 1962, Wertheim was reassigned to [[the Pentagon]], serving under the Director of Defense Research and Engineering [[Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense)|Dr. Harold Brown]], whom he had met while working on the Polaris missile.<ref name=InterviewIndex /> That same year, Wertheim was tasked with writing a report for the United States to sell the United Kingdom the Polaris missile, instead of the cancelled [[GAM-87 Skybolt]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mackby |first1=Jenifer |last2=Cornish |first2=Paul |title=U.S.-UK Nuclear Cooperation After 50 Years |date=2008 |publisher=Center for Strategic & International Studies |location=Washington, D.C. |isbn=9780892065301 |pages=359–361 |others=Chatham House |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x6Zkn3IuVN0C&dq=%22Robert%20Wertheim%22&pg=PA359}}</ref> Wertheim remained at the Pentagon as the Military Assistant for Strategic Weapons until August 1965, which earned him a [[Joint Service Commendation Medal]].<ref name=Approriations1980 /> During those years, Wertheim was instrumental in having the Strategic Projects Office increase the [[UGM-73 Poseidon]]'s targeting accuracy by switching the missile's guidance system from only inertial to [[Missile guidance#Astro-inertial guidance|stellar-inertial guidance]].<ref name=Polaris1994 />{{rp|53–54}} Wertheim returned to the Special Projects Office in Washington, D.C. in late 1965.<ref name=Approriations1980 /> |
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In 1971, Wertheim was elevated to the rank of [[Rear admiral (United States)#Rear admiral (lower half)|rear admiral]].<ref name=InterviewIndex>{{cite report |author= |author-link= |authors= |date= |title=Index to Series of taped interviews with Rear Admiral Robert Halley Wertheim, USN (Ret.) |url=https://www.usni.org/sites/default/files/2018-05/Wertheim%20Robert%20-%20Index.pdf |publisher=United States Naval Institute |page= |docket= |access-date=17 August 2021 |quote=}}</ref> That same year, he was awarded the [[Rear Admiral William S. Parsons Award]] by the [[Navy League of the United States]].<ref name=InterviewIndex /> At some point in his career, before 1974, Wertheim attended and graduated from the [[Naval Postgraduate School]].<ref>{{cite report |author=Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.) |date=22 May 2013 |orig-date=1974 |title=Catalogue for 1974–1976 |url=https://nps.edu/documents/104111578/117929726/cataloguefor1974nava.pdf/37c541bc-0048-4372-a49b-f4a6bc3a0766?t=1444842691000 |publisher= Naval Postgraduate School|page=13 |docket= |access-date=17 October 2021}}</ref>{{efn|Wertheim may have attended, or graduated, in 1951.<ref name=InterviewIndex />}} In 1977, Wertheim was elected as a member of the [[National Academy of Engineering]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nae.edu/28375/Rear-Admiral-Robert-H-Wertheim |title=Rear Admiral Robert H. Wertheim |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=Members |publisher=National Academy of Engineering |access-date=17 August 2021 |quote=}}</ref>{{efn|Wertheim contributed significantly to the National Academy of Engineering's parent organization, the [[National Academy of Sciences]].<ref>{{cite report |author=National Academy of Sciences |author-link= |authors= |date=27 June 2019 |title=Report of the Treasurer for the Year Ended December 31, 2018 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9R-vDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA26 |publisher=National Academies Press |page=26 |docket= |access-date=18 October 2021 |quote=}}</ref>}} That same year, Wertheim became the Director of the Strategic Systems Projects.<ref name=Approriations1980>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=1979 |title=Department of Defense appropriations for 1980 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Department_of_Defense_appropriations_for/ru1dMMPvHZIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Robert+%22Wertheim%22&pg=PA361&printsec=frontcover |location= |publisher=United States Congress |page=361-362 |isbn=}}</ref>{{efn|Special Projects Office was renamed to Strategic Systems Projects Office in 1968.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ssp.navy.mil/about/history.html |title=Our History |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=Strategic Systems Programs |publisher=United States Navy |access-date=17 August 2021 |quote=}}</ref>}} In April 1979, Senator [[Robert Byrd]] said that Wertheim "is the Navy's leading authority on strategic missiles";<ref>{{cite report |author=Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate |year=1979 |title=Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1980 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JFCnBqXs0yAC&pg=PA2500 |publisher=United States Government Printing Office |page=2500 |docket= |access-date=14 October 2021 |quote=}}</ref> in addition to work on the Polaris and Poseidon missiles, Wertheim had also made significant contributions to the development of the [[Trident (missile)|Trident missile family]].<ref name=TR2018 /><ref name=Approriations1980 /><ref name=USNA2005 /> In October 1979, Wertheim was awarded the [[Navy Distinguished Service Medal]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/34228 |title=Robert H. Wertheim |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=Hall of Valor |publisher=Sightline Media Group |access-date=17 August 2021 |quote=}}<br/>{{USCongRec|1979|S30788|date=2 November 1979}} {{cite web |last=Woolsey |first=James |author-link=R. James Woolsey Jr. |url=https://www.congress.gov/96/crecb/1979/11/02/GPO-CRECB-1979-pt23-7-1.pdf|title=Adm. Robert H. Wertheim|date=2 November 1979 |publisher=United States Congress |series=Congressional Record – Senate}}<br/>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Trident I Operational |url=https://media.defense.gov/2019/Jul/25/2002162334/-1/-1/0/AH198001.PDF |magazine=All Hands |page=4 |location=Alexandria, Virginia |publisher=United States Navy |date=January 1980 |access-date=14 October 2021 }}</ref> |
In 1971, Wertheim was elevated to the rank of [[Rear admiral (United States)#Rear admiral (lower half)|rear admiral]].<ref name=InterviewIndex>{{cite report |author= |author-link= |authors= |date= |title=Index to Series of taped interviews with Rear Admiral Robert Halley Wertheim, USN (Ret.) |url=https://www.usni.org/sites/default/files/2018-05/Wertheim%20Robert%20-%20Index.pdf |publisher=United States Naval Institute |page= |docket= |access-date=17 August 2021 |quote=}}</ref> That same year, he was awarded the [[Rear Admiral William S. Parsons Award]] by the [[Navy League of the United States]].<ref name=InterviewIndex /> At some point in his career, before 1974, Wertheim attended and graduated from the [[Naval Postgraduate School]].<ref>{{cite report |author=Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.) |date=22 May 2013 |orig-date=1974 |title=Catalogue for 1974–1976 |url=https://nps.edu/documents/104111578/117929726/cataloguefor1974nava.pdf/37c541bc-0048-4372-a49b-f4a6bc3a0766?t=1444842691000 |publisher= Naval Postgraduate School|page=13 |docket= |access-date=17 October 2021}}</ref>{{efn|Wertheim may have attended, or graduated, in 1951.<ref name=InterviewIndex />}} In 1977, Wertheim was elected as a member of the [[National Academy of Engineering]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nae.edu/28375/Rear-Admiral-Robert-H-Wertheim |title=Rear Admiral Robert H. Wertheim |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=Members |publisher=National Academy of Engineering |access-date=17 August 2021 |quote=}}</ref>{{efn|Wertheim contributed significantly to the National Academy of Engineering's parent organization, the [[National Academy of Sciences]].<ref>{{cite report |author=National Academy of Sciences |author-link= |authors= |date=27 June 2019 |title=Report of the Treasurer for the Year Ended December 31, 2018 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9R-vDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA26 |publisher=National Academies Press |page=26 |docket= |access-date=18 October 2021 |quote=}}</ref>}} That same year, Wertheim became the Director of the Strategic Systems Projects.<ref name=Approriations1980>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=1979 |title=Department of Defense appropriations for 1980 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Department_of_Defense_appropriations_for/ru1dMMPvHZIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Robert+%22Wertheim%22&pg=PA361&printsec=frontcover |location= |publisher=United States Congress |page=361-362 |isbn=}}</ref>{{efn|Special Projects Office was renamed to Strategic Systems Projects Office in 1968.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ssp.navy.mil/about/history.html |title=Our History |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=Strategic Systems Programs |publisher=United States Navy |access-date=17 August 2021 |quote=}}</ref>}} In April 1979, Senator [[Robert Byrd]] said that Wertheim "is the Navy's leading authority on strategic missiles";<ref>{{cite report |author=Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate |year=1979 |title=Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1980 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JFCnBqXs0yAC&pg=PA2500 |publisher=United States Government Printing Office |page=2500 |docket= |access-date=14 October 2021 |quote=}}</ref> in addition to work on the Polaris and Poseidon missiles, Wertheim had also made significant contributions to the development of the [[Trident (missile)|Trident missile family]].<ref name=TR2018 /><ref name=Approriations1980 /><ref name=USNA2005 /> In October 1979, Wertheim was awarded the [[Navy Distinguished Service Medal]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/34228 |title=Robert H. Wertheim |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=Hall of Valor |publisher=Sightline Media Group |access-date=17 August 2021 |quote=}}<br/>{{USCongRec|1979|S30788|date=2 November 1979}} {{cite web |last=Woolsey |first=James |author-link=R. James Woolsey Jr. |url=https://www.congress.gov/96/crecb/1979/11/02/GPO-CRECB-1979-pt23-7-1.pdf|title=Adm. Robert H. Wertheim|date=2 November 1979 |publisher=United States Congress |series=Congressional Record – Senate}}<br/>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Trident I Operational |url=https://media.defense.gov/2019/Jul/25/2002162334/-1/-1/0/AH198001.PDF |magazine=All Hands |page=4 |location=Alexandria, Virginia |publisher=United States Navy |date=January 1980 |access-date=14 October 2021 }}</ref> |
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Robert Halley Wertheim | |
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Painting of Rear Admiral Robert H. Wertheim, USN Rear Admiral Robert H. Wertheim, USN | |
Nickname(s) | Bob[1] |
Born | Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States | 9 November 1922
Died | 29 April 2020 | (aged 97)
Buried | Miramar National Cemetery |
Allegiance | United States |
Service/ | United States Navy |
Years of service | 1942–1980 |
Rank | Rear Admiral |
Commands | United States Navy Strategic Systems Project Office[2] |
Battles/wars | World War II *Occupation of Japan |
Alma mater | New Mexico Military Institute United States Naval Academy Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Spouse(s) | Barbara (1946–2001) Joan |
Children | 2 |
Robert "Bob" Wertheim (9 November 1922 – 29 April 2020) was an American naval officer involved in the development of strategic weapons. Born and raised in New Mexico, he attended the New Mexico Military Institute before appointment to the United States Naval Academy. He graduated in time to join in the occupation of Japan.
Returning to the United States, Wertheim began a long involvement in missile development, to including work on the Regulus cruise missile, Polaris ballistic missile, Chaparrel anti-aircraft missile, Poseiden ballistic missile, and Trident ballistic missile. During his time working on missile development, Wertheim graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After retiring from the United States Navy as a rear admiral (upper half), he was a senior vice president at Lockheed Corporation, and engaged in consulting work.
Early life
Wertheim was born to Joseph Wertheim and Emma Vorenberg in Carlsbad, New Mexico on 9 November 1922.[3][a] Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, he enrolled into the New Mexico Military Institute;[1] graduating there in 1942, he received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy.[9][10][b] At the Naval Academy, Wertheim competed on the school's fencing team.[12] Wertheim graduated with honors from in 1945;[1][13] he was commissioned an Ensign upon graduation as part of an accelerated wartime program.[3]
Military service
Following his graduation from the Naval Academy, Wertheim's first assignment was on the destroyer USS Hyman.[10] Transferred to the destroyer Bordelon at Okinawa, Wertheim served as the ship's assistant engineering officer and communications officer, before being sent to San Francisco to attend electronics school.[10] Upon completing electronics school, Wertheim was assigned to the destroyer escort Maloy, which spent the winter of 1947 providing electricity to Maine.[10] Following his assignment to Maloy, Wertheim was reassigned to Sandia Base, where he was a member of the Navy's first nuclear bomb assembly team.[12]
Wertheim wished to study nuclear physics, but was due for a sea assignment; accordingly, he selected the seaplane tender Norton Sound, which was used to test guided missiles.[10] In 1954, Wertheim enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning a masters in nuclear physics.[1] That same year, he was detailed to the heavy cruiser Los Angeles while it had SSM-N-8 Regulus missiles embarked.[10] As a lieutenant in 1955, Wertheim headed the group that worked on the design of the atmospheric reentry body of the warheads mounted onto the UGM-27 Polaris.[14]: 53 [15] In June 1956, Wertheim was assigned to the United States Navy Special Projects Office, originally part of the Bureau of Ordnance, where he stayed until June 1961; during that time he continued the work he began in 1955, heading the Re-Entry Body Section, receiving the Navy Commendation Medal for his efforts.[3]
After assignment to the Special Projects Office, Wertheim was assigned to the Naval Ordnance Test Station in California from 1961 to 1962.[3] While there, Wertheim worked on the cancelled development of the AIM-9 Sidewinder for naval surface air defense, called Osprey; he was able to take that work and utilize it for the Army and Marine Corps Air Defense Artillery, including having a hand in its naming, MIM-72 Chaparral.[3][10][16] Chaparral being the name for a roadrunner in Mexican Spanish, the state bird for Wertheim's home state.[10][16]
In late 1962, Wertheim was reassigned to the Pentagon, serving under the Director of Defense Research and Engineering Dr. Harold Brown, whom he had met while working on the Polaris missile.[10] That same year, Wertheim was tasked with writing a report for the United States to sell the United Kingdom the Polaris missile, instead of the cancelled GAM-87 Skybolt.[17] Wertheim remained at the Pentagon as the Military Assistant for Strategic Weapons until August 1965, which earned him a Joint Service Commendation Medal.[3] During those years, Wertheim was instrumental in having the Strategic Projects Office increase the UGM-73 Poseidon's targeting accuracy by switching the missile's guidance system from only inertial to stellar-inertial guidance.[14]: 53–54 Wertheim returned to the Special Projects Office in Washington, D.C. in late 1965.[3]
In 1971, Wertheim was elevated to the rank of rear admiral.[10] That same year, he was awarded the Rear Admiral William S. Parsons Award by the Navy League of the United States.[10] At some point in his career, before 1974, Wertheim attended and graduated from the Naval Postgraduate School.[18][c] In 1977, Wertheim was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering.[19][d] That same year, Wertheim became the Director of the Strategic Systems Projects.[3][e] In April 1979, Senator Robert Byrd said that Wertheim "is the Navy's leading authority on strategic missiles";[22] in addition to work on the Polaris and Poseidon missiles, Wertheim had also made significant contributions to the development of the Trident missile family.[1][3][12] In October 1979, Wertheim was awarded the Navy Distinguished Service Medal.[23]
Post-military life
For seven years, beginning in 1981, Wertheim was the senior vice president of science and engineering of Lockheed Corporation.[1][10][24] In 1983, along with several other dozen retired flag officers, Wertheim took out a full-page advertisement in the Washington Times condemning retired Rear Admiral Gene La Rocque for appearing on Soviet Union television and himself condemning the defense policy of the United States.[25] In 1987, the New Mexico Military Institute inducted Wertheim into their hall of fame.[9] Beginning in 1988, Wertheim became a private consultant with Science Applications International Corporation.[12] He also did consulting work with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States Department of Defense, and the Draper Laboratory.[1] In 2000, on behalf of the University of California, Wertheim was the lead of a review of Los Alamos National Laboratory after hard drives temporarily went missing.[26] Wertheim was a member of Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi.[24]
Personal life and retirement
In April 1946, Wertheim became engaged to Barbara Louis Selig of West Los Angeles;[27] they married in December 1946.[3] Barbara gave birth and was the mother of their children Joseph and David.[28] In 2001, Barbara, Wertheim's wife of 54 years, died.[1] In 2005, the alumni association of the Naval Academy awarded Wertheim their Distinguished Graduate Award Medal.[29][f] By 2005, Wertheim had re-married, to Joan Levin.[1][30] In 2005, Wertheim spoke to The New Mexico Jewish Historical Society.[31] The next year, he was given the Distinguished Submariner Award by the Naval Submarine League.[32] In 2008, Wertheim was a member of the Defense Science Board's Permanent Task Force on Nuclear Weapons Surety.[33] In 2012, his son Joseph died in Pittsburgh.[28][34][g] On 29 April 2020, Wertheim died;[37] he was buried in Section 11 of Miramar National Cemetery.[38]
Notes
- ^ Joseph Wertheim emmigrated from Brakel, Germany to Tucumcari, New Mexico, with the financial assistance of his cousin Jacob in 1906. Emma Vorenberg was Joseph's third cousin. Joseph worked as a traveling salesman, a multi-location clothes shop proprietor, cotton broker, and insurance agent.[4]: 39–40 Joseph Wertheim died on 4 January 1950;[5] some of his papers have been archived in the Harriet Rochlin Collection of Western Jewish History at the University of California, Los Angeles.[6] Emma died in November 1982, having continued to run a insurance business named after Joseph with their daughter Jeanette until her death.[7] Jeanette, who later married Norman E. Sparks in 1956, died in 2004.[8]
- ^ Wertheim received his Naval Academy appointment from a senator from the state of New Mexico.[11]
- ^ Wertheim may have attended, or graduated, in 1951.[10]
- ^ Wertheim contributed significantly to the National Academy of Engineering's parent organization, the National Academy of Sciences.[20]
- ^ Special Projects Office was renamed to Strategic Systems Projects Office in 1968.[21]
- ^ That same year, the Distinguished Graduate Award Medal was given to Slade Cutter, Ronald J. Hays, and Ross Perot.[29]
- ^ His son Joseph, was also an alumnus of the New Mexico Military Institute.[35] Both his son, and he, supported Denis Theatre.[36]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Karagianis, Liz (22 August 2018). "Bob Wertheim, SM '54". MIT Technology Review. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- ^ MacKenzie, Donald; Spinardi, Graham (August 1988). "The Shaping of Nuclear Weapon System Technology: US Fleet Ballistic Missile Guidance and Navigation: I: From Polaris to Poseidon". Social Studies of Science. 18 (3): 419–463. doi:10.1177/030631288018003002. JSTOR 285232. S2CID 108709165. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Department of Defense appropriations for 1980. United States Congress. 1979. p. 361-362.
- ^ Stratton, David H. (Winter 2014). "The Jewish Founding Fathers of Tucumcari". New Mexico Historical Review. 89 (1): 25–62. Retrieved 17 October 2021 – via University of New Mexico.
- ^ "Joseph Wertheim, Civic Leader, Dies". Carlsbad Current-Argus. Carlsbad, New Mexico. 5 January 1950. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
- ^ Shapiro, Harriet. "Wertheim, Joseph, History of New Mexico." [3pp. copy]. Harriet Rochlin Collection of Western Jewish History, Box: 33. Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- ^ "Norman E. Sparks". Carlsbad Current-Argus. 3 August 2008. Retrieved 17 October 2014 – via Legacy.com.
- ^ Carlsbad Current-Argus (23 September 2004). "In Memory of Jeanette Wertheim Sparks" (PDF). New Mexico Jewish Historical Society. 18 (4): 7. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
- ^ a b "RADM Robert Halley Wertheim, USN (Ret) 1942 JC". Hall of Fame. New Mexico Military Academy. 23 October 1987. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Index to Series of taped interviews with Rear Admiral Robert Halley Wertheim, USN (Ret.) (PDF) (Report). United States Naval Institute. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
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(help) - ^ Register of Alumni. Annapolis, Maryland: U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association. 1 July 1956. p. 414.
- ^ a b c d "Class of 1946". United States Naval Academy Alumni Association and Foundation. 2005. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
- ^ "Pancake Festival's 2015 Military Honoree Rear Admiral Robert H. Wertheim" (PDF). Newsletter. Rancho Bernardo Historical Society. Spring 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
- ^ a b Spinardi, Graham (6 January 1994). From Polaris to Trident: The Development of US Fleet Ballistic Missile Technology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521413572.
- ^ Craven, John Pina (2 June 2002). The Silent War: The Cold War Battle Beneath the Sea. Simon and Schuster. p. 78–. ISBN 978-0-7432-4225-7.
- ^ a b Lawson, Cliff (2017). The Station Comes of Age: History of the Navy at China Lake, California (PDF). Government Printing Office. p. 355. ISBN 9780160939709. Archived from the original on 31 December 2017. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
- ^ Mackby, Jenifer; Cornish, Paul (2008). U.S.-UK Nuclear Cooperation After 50 Years. Chatham House. Washington, D.C.: Center for Strategic & International Studies. pp. 359–361. ISBN 9780892065301.
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He was the beloved husband for 38 years of Elaine (Edwards) Wertheim; devoted father of Benjamin E. Wertheim; son of Rear Adm. Robert H. Wertheim and the late Barbara Selig Wertheim; and brother of David A. Wertheim.
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External links
- Bob Wertheim on LinkedIn
- Wertheim, Robert (1981). "Wertheim, Robert H., Rear Adm., USN (Ret.)". Oral Histories (Interview). Interviewed by John T. Mason, Jr. United States Naval Institute.
- "Robert Halley Wertheim". Who’s Who Lifetime Achievement. 8 February 2018.
- "Robert H. Wertheim". Jews in Green. Jewish War Veterans Online Post 77, Jewish War Veterans of America. 1 July 2005.
- "Robert Halley Wertheim". Plaques. Mount Soledad National Veterans Memorial.
- 1922 births
- 2020 deaths
- Jewish American military personnel
- New Mexico Military Institute alumni
- Military personnel from New Mexico
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- People from Carlsbad, New Mexico
- Recipients of the Navy Distinguished Service Medal
- United States Naval Academy alumni
- United States Navy admirals