to the Archive’s embrace of telecommuting and distance learning, as he beamed in from Los Angeles to oversee the management of his extensive, pristinely organized files, and to direct, comment, and critique not only the development of the Cyber Vault but every Archive publication on nuclear weapons or the intelligence agencies, and more.

Jeffrey Talbot Richelson grew up in the Bronx, earned his B.A. at City University of New York and his Ph.D. at the University of Rochester. He later taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the American University, and Catholic University in Washington D.C. before joining the Archive full-time. He appeared on a variety of TV and radio programs, as well as on C-SPAN, and was regularly quoted in print media around the world.

Jeff never soughtspace launches for one of the National Security Archives' document collections in the early 1990s. While doing that, I ended up contacting Jonathan McDowell and other people who wrote about military space, so a lot of the contacts I made later were because of the initial work I had to do for him. He was a quiet guy, rather shy. He liked Battlestar Galactica (hated the finale) and Star Trek (couldn't stand Enterprise, respected Picard even if he thought he was a wimp and Kirk would kick his ass) and baseball.