Newell Mack Collected Papers

Newell Brackett Mack was an arms control and environmental policy consultant for researchers, public policy makers, and government officials. He was credited by some as being an initiator in 1968 of nationwide opposition to the deployment of the ABM missile system and the subsequent vote by the U.S. Senate to abandon the ABM.

Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Mack was the son of Julian Ellis Mack, who headed the optics division of the Manhattan Project. Mack grew up at the Los Alamos site where his father worked on the development of the atom bomb. Mack and his sister, Cornelia, were among the first to walk the sands of the first atomic test in New Mexico in July 1945. It was this experience that led him to devote his efforts toward nuclear arms control.

Mack attended Harvard College, and graduated with a B.A. from Haverford College. He served as a Science Policy Consultant at Harvard's Jefferson Laboratory Energy and Environmental Policy Center, and as a research associate at the MIT Center for International Studies. He died at age 52 after a brief illness.