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)
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
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
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
March / April 2007
China on the March
Magazine or Newspaper Article, National Interest, issue 88
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities and Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project
China's announcement of a major increase in military spending has raised many questions about the future of Washington's relations with Beijing. In the March/April 2007 issue of The National Interest, Ashton B. Carter and William J. Perry provide answers.
July 8, 2006
The Case for a Preemptive Strike on North Korea's Missiles
Magazine or Newspaper Article, TIME / time.com
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities and Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project
Former Clinton administration officials Ashton Carter and William Perry argue that the most effective way to curb the threat from Pyongyang is to destroy its missiles at their test sites
January / February 2006
A Fuel-Cycle Fix
Magazine or Newspaper Article, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities and Stephen A. LaMontagne
A new international regime could stop nations before they enter the proliferation “red zone.”
September/October 2003
The Korean Nuclear Crisis: Preventing the Truly Dangerous Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Magazine or Newspaper Article, Harvard Magazine
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities
How could the North Korea's nuclear program have advanced so far, and what should be done now about the world's most serious nuclear crisis?
December 5, 2007
The Shifting Balance of Power
Media Feature
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative, Vali Nasr and Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities
"The Middle East: Between Progress and Conflict," an inaugural conference jointly hosted by The Dubai Initiative and the Dubai School of Government, was held on November 8, 2007 at the Kennedy School of Government.
Panel I: The Shifting Balance of Power was chaired by Joseph Nye and featured the following presentions, followed by a Q&A:
- America and the Arab World - Rami Khouri
- Contending with Iran's Regional Role - Vali Nasr
- Challenges of Nuclear Proliferation - Ashton Carter
