Rear-Admiral Sir Anthony Wass Buzzard, 2nd Baronet, CB, DSO, OBE (28 April 1902 – 10 March 1972) was an officer in the Royal Navy who served as Director of Naval Intelligence from 1951 to 1954.

[1] Buzzard commanded the destroyer HMS Gurkha during the early years of the war,[1] and his actions during her sinking led to the award of the Distinguished Service Order.

Gurkha was part of a force of cruisers and destroyers sent by the British in the immediate aftermath of the German invasion of Norway on 7 April 1940.

[2] Buzzard was then one of the captains assigned to visit the parents of those lost in the sinking of HMS Hood to offer his condolences.

[5] Buzzard was assigned to the Royal Naval Air Service after the end of the war, and commanded the cruiser HMS Superb between 1946 and 1950.

As Director of Naval Intelligence, Buzzard helped develop the nuclear deterrent policy in the early 1950s and was fundamental to it.

Buzzard was a founder member of both the Institute of Strategic Studies, and the council of Christian Approaches to Defence and Disarmament.

Graduated Deterrence posited that one must issue a reasonable threat to one's enemy that is also realizable and not so massive that no one believes that it will ever happen.

His wife joined him in Australia, and four years later, in 1972, he suffered a third and fatal heart attack and died on 10 March at the age of sixty-nine.