Thomas Care Reed (March 1, 1934 – February 11, 2024) was an American politician who served as the 11th Secretary of the Air Force from January 2, 1976 to April 6, 1977 under Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.

He was released from active duty with the Air Force in May 1961, but he rejoined the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory as a civilian for the 1962 test series, continuing there as a consultant until 1967.

While maintaining an interest in Supercon Ltd., Reed organized the Quaker Hill Development Corporation at San Rafael, California, in 1965, and served as its treasurer, president and chairman.

In the early 1970s, he and another Cornell University alumni, Frank Woods, partnered in the development of a ski resort in Breckenridge, Colorado, and began growing wine grapes in Sonoma County.

Reed's financial dealings in 1981 as a private businessman were investigated for insider trading by a federal prosecutor in New York City, and he resigned as President Reagan's Special Assistant for National Security Affairs in March 1983.

[8] On March 9, 2004, At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War, an autobiographical book about his experience at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory through his time as an advisor to President Ronald Reagan.

It also describes a CIA plan approved by Reagan to undermine the Soviet Union's ability to sell natural gas to Western Europe by secretly installing malware in the technology used to operate pipelines.

[9] Reed's second book, co-authored with Danny B. Stillman, was titled The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and Its Proliferation and was published in January 2009.