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Robert R. Holt

Robert R. Holt, a long-time student of the psychology of peace, is the retired founding director of the Research Center for Mental Health and of the Program on Peace and Global Policy Studies at New York University, where he was a professor of psychology from 1958 until his retirement in 1989.


Articles by Robert R. Holt

Meeting Einstein’s challenge: New thinking about nuclear weapons

By Robert R. Holt | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics