Pharmacist Mate Third Class Dean
Warren, entered the United States Navy at the end of World War II. He
volunteered to be trained as a radiological technician and sailed to Bikini
Atoll for the atomic tests. As a young veteran of the Bikini Atom bomb tests,
Dean Warren attended UCLA, The London School of Economics, and Harvard. While in
London, he and two other graduate students drove from there to New Delhi, India.
Later, he sold Lockheed aircraft in Southwest Asia and was promoted to Director
of Marketing for Lockheed International. The State Department then lured him to
run Program Planning for the Agency of International Development. He finished
his working career as Director of Strategic Planning for the Lockheed Martin
Electronics and Missiles Group in Orlando, Florida. In that role he helped bring
his Group into the forefront of the precision guidance revolution. His
experiences and writing skills have led him in retirement to publish illustrated
memoirs of his nuclear and car trip adventures, as well as seven science
fiction, speculative novels. Dean Warren is the author of The Bomb And
Its Deadly Shadow: A Memoir; Imaginings: Selected Stories; the three volume work
The Pacification of Earth which includes American Revolt, The Crescent Strikes
and Imperial Power; From London to New Delhi by Car in 1951; Growing Young; The
Last Underclass; and, Man over Mind.
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