His studies for the RAND Corporation in the 1960s and 1970s helped influence civil defense preparedness in the United States and U.S. strategy in the Vietnam War.
Gouré was born in Moscow, son of Boris and Sophie Gourevitsch,[1] who were Mensheviks who opposed the Bolshevik regime and went into exile in Berlin in 1923.
They escaped Nazi persecution, fleeing to France in 1933 and then, in 1940, fled Paris to the United States, where they settled in Hoboken, New Jersey.
In 1961, he wrote a report suggesting that the Soviet Union had massively increased their civil defense preparations to protect large numbers of people in the event of a nuclear war.
In 1973, he wrote that:[2] The fundamental Soviet view is that the better the USSR is prepared for war, the greater and more credible is its ability to deter its adversary from risking military confrontation.