* Licklider changes the name from "Command & Control Research" to "Information Processing Techniques Office" before he left and Robert Taylor takes over.†
* Taylor convinced Charles M. Herzfeld to build a resource sharing network.
* Taylor recruited Larry Roberts to design/build ARPAnet. Wesley A. Clark was part of the design/build team.
* Roberts didn't have any kind of goal related to nuclear survivability (per interviews with him in published sources/books).
* Roberts met Donald Davies. Davies had no interest in nuclear survivability. Davies introduced Roberts to Paul Baran's work.
Is any of the above in dispute?
Did anyone other than Baran ever express interest in nuclear survivability?
† Given Licklider efforts in the name change, can anything be gleaned by his about intentions‡ in the way he wants the office/department to go?
> Any present-day large-scale computer is too fast and too costly for real-time cooperative thinking with one man. Clearly, for the sake of efficiency and economy, the computer must divide its time among many users. Timesharing systems are currently under active development. There are even arrangements to keep users from "clobbering" anything but their own personal programs.
> It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries together with anticipated advances in information storage and retrieval and the symbiotic functions suggested earlier in this paper. The picture readily enlarges itself into a network of such centers, connected to one another by wide-band communication lines and to individual users by leased-wire services. In such a system, the speed of the computers would be balanced, and the cost of the gigantic memories and the sophisticated programs would be divided by the number of users.
