Habiger dead at 82: Oversaw U.S. nuclear weapons, then ran San Antonio Water System
Gen. Eugene Habiger, Department of Energy Security Director, is sworn in prior to testifying on Capitol Hill in 1999, on security at the Los Alamos, Livermore and Sandia national laboratories. Habiger later ran the San Antonio Water System. He died March 18 at 82. Gen. Eugene Habiger, who flew B-52 bombers over Vietnam before becoming a nuclear weapons expert running the U.S. Strategic Command and befriending Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev, has died in San Antonio.
“If it wasn’t for Gene Habiger, NTI probably wouldn’t exist,” former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia, who served as its CEO for 16 years, said in a statement NTI issued after Habiger’s death. “Gene was a passionate advocate for strengthening U.S. security while reducing global nuclear threats.” In 1996, the Air Force’s chief of staff, Gen. Ronald Fogleman, nominated Habiger to lead Strategic Command at Offut AFB in Nebraska. He held that job for two years before closing out his Air Force career and moving to the Department of Energy, where he was director of security and emergency operations.
“In fact, I talked to Gene about that right after that and said, ‘I couldn’t believe you did that, ‘and he said, ‘Well, we did that when I was in the military and it worked out really good,’” Divich recalled. “‘Everybody got together and made it more cohesive, the job they were doing, but obviously the people on the board of SAWS, the employees, didn’t take it that way.’ He just made a wrong call, I guess.
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