The Atomic Puzzler!

In helping the editor to prepare graphics for this issue of SDA, Gamma -- Dr. Egghead's canine friend -- found out that record-keeping at NATO's photo archives in the early days was doggone inadequate. It seems that no one could dig up the identities of the ten men in this issue's cover photograph1, shown here: (For a larger photo format, visit http://www.nato.int/structur/medialib/database/caption/t00935.htm.) NATO's Media Library Web site describes the photo as "First meeting of the Nuclear Planning Group." It is one of several photos listed under "Meeting of Defence Ministers." According to its Final Communiqué the first meeting of the NATO Nuclear Planning Group was attended by NATO Secretary General Manlio Brosio plus the defense ministers of seven NATO countries: Paul Hellyer of Canada, Dr. Gerhard Schroeder of Germany, Roberto Tremelloni of Italy, Willem den Toom of the Netherlands, Ahmet Topaloglu of Turkey, Denis Healey of the United Kingdom, and Robert McNamara of the United States.2 But after hours of Web sniffing and pawing around military history books, Gamma could not find confirmation that all of these defense ministers are present in the photograph. Even if he did, he would still need to figure out who was whom. And who is the tenth person? In the end, Gamma managed to identify three of the ten: US President Johnson (fourth from right), McNamara (third from right), and Brosio (far left). We are challenging SDA readers to identify, with confirmation, each of the seven unidentified men in the photo. Include their names and titles. Confirm your answers by, for example, citing the publication in which the photograph identifying the men appears. Please provide a copy of the relevant source page(s) with your answer.