[ih] Paul Baran

[galmes at tamu.edu (Guy Almes)]

   A friend made me aware, this morning, of the death of Paul Baran (cf. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/technology/28baran.html>).  There 
were many interesting aspects of the NYT obituary.
   One was this sentence: "He quickly developed an interest in the 
survivability of communications systems in the event of a nuclear 
attack, and spent the next several years at RAND working on a series of 
13 papers ? two of them classified ? under contract to the Air Force, 
titled, 'On Distributed Communications.' "
   Does anyone know if those classified papers might be declassified, if 
only to allow scholars to more fully assess Paul's contributions?