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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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1992 (continued)

March 29, 1992

The Soviet Arsenal and the Mistaken Calculus of Caution

Journal Article, Washington Post

By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities and Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School

Op-ed by Dr. Ashton B. Carter and Dr. Graham T. Allison in The Washington Post

 

 

1992

Implications of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union for Accidental/Inadvertent Uses of Weapons of Mass Destruction

Book

By Steven E. Miller, Director, International Security Program; Editor-in-Chief, International Security; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom, Owen R. Coté, Editor, International Security and Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities

Book by Steven E. Miller, Ashton B. Carter, and Owen Cote

 

 

January / February 1992

Reducing the Nuclear Dangers from the Former Soviet Union

Journal Article, Arms Control Today, issue 1, volume 22

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

Dr. Ashton B. Carter's article in Arms Control Today.

 

 

January 1992

A New Concept of Cooperative Security

Book

By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities, John D. Steinbruner, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 1973-1977 and Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project

Innovative book by Carter, Steinbruner, and Perry

 

1991

December 14, 1991

Actions to Reduce the Nuclear Danger in the Former Soviet Union

Testimony

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

Testimony by Dr. Ashton B. Carter

 

 

November 1991

Soviet Nuclear Fission: Control of the Nuclear Arsenal in a Disintegrating Soviet Union

Book

By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities, Kurt M. Campbell, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy and International Relations, 1988-1993, Harvard Kennedy School; Former Assistant Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 1988-1993; and Former Research Fellow, ISP, 1985-1987, Steven E. Miller, Director, International Security Program; Editor-in-Chief, International Security; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom and Charles A. Zraket

Book by Ashton B. Carter, Kurt M. Campbell, Steven E. Miller, and Charles Zraket

 

 

1991

Emerging Themes in Nuclear Arms Control

Journal Article, Daedalus, issue 1, volume 120

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

Article by Dr. Ashton B. Carter in Daedalus

 

1990

August 1990

New Thinking and American Defense Technology

Book

By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities and Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project

Report of the Carnegie Comission on Science, Technology, and Government

 

 

January 1990

Ashton B. Carter on Arms Control

Book

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

Dr. Ashton B. Carter on Arms Control

 

1989

July 1989

Testing Weapons in Space

Journal Article, Scientific American, issue 1

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

Dr. Ashton B. Carter's article in Scientific American

 

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