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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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1985

The Relationship of ASAT and BMD Systems

Journal Article, Daedalus

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

Article by Dr. Ashton B. Carter in Daedalus

 

 

January 1985

Command and Control of Nuclear War

Journal Article, Scientific American

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

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

 

 

1984

Satellites and Anti-Satellites: The Limits of the Possible

Journal Article, International Security, issue 4, volume 10

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

Article by Dr. Ashton B. Carter in International Security

 

 

1984

Ballistic Missile Defense

Book

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

Book edited by Ashton B. Carter and David N. Schwartz

 

 

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

 

 

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.

 

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