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Ashton B. Carter

Ashton B. Carter

Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities

Former Chair of International & Global Affairs faculty, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy (1993–1996), U.S. Department of Defense

Member of the Board (on leave), Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs

Former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (April 2009–October 2011)

 

 

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1984 (continued)

April 1984

Directed Energy Missile Defense in Space

Report

By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities

Report by Dr. Ashton B. Carter for The Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress

 

1981

September 1981

Air Mobile MX Basing

Book Chapter

By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities

This chapter discusses three concepts, distinguished by their approaches to the problems of dependence on warning for survivability and postattack endurance beyond the unrefueled flight time of the aircraft.

 

 

April 1981

CP Violation in B-Meson Decays

Journal Article, Physical Review D, issue 7, volume 23

By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities and Anthony I. Sanda

Article by Ashton B. Carter and Anthony I. Sanda

 

1980

September 1980

CP Nonconservation in Cascade Decays of B Mesons

Journal Article, Physical Review Letters, issue 12, volume 45

By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities and Anthony I. Sanda

Article by Ashton B. Carter and Anthony I. Sanda

 

 

1980

Perturbative QCD in a Covariant Gauge

Journal Article, Nuclear Physics, volume B162

By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities and C. H. Llewellyn Smith

Article by Ashton B. Carter and C. H. Llewellyn Smith

 

1979

December 1979

Weak Rule and the Dynamical Higgs Mechanism

Journal Article, Physical Review Letters, issue 25, volume 43

By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities and Heinz Pagels

Article by Ashton B. Carter and Heinz Pagels

 

1976

November 1976

Polarization of Prompt Muons Produced at Rt = 2.15 GeV/c by 400-GeV Proton Interactions

Journal Article, Physical Review Letters, issue 21, volume 37

By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities and Michael J. Lauterbach

Article by Ashton B. Carter and Michael J. Lauterbach, et al.

 

 

April 1976

Polarization of Prompt Muons

Journal Article, Physical Review Letters, issue 17, volume 36

By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities and Robert K. Adair

Article by Ashton B. Carter and Robert K. Adair, et al

 

1975

December 1975

Polarization of Prompt Muons in the Forward Direction by 400-GeV Proton Interactions

Journal Article, Physical Review Letters, issue 24, volume 35

By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities and Robert K. Adair

Article by Ashton B. Carter and Robert K. Adair, et al

 

 

October 1975

Quarks, Charm and the Psi Particle

Journal Article, Yale Scientific, issue 1, volume 50

By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities

Article by Dr. Ashton B. Carter

 

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