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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)
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
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
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
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



