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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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International Security (continued)

2005

The Essential Features of a Focused Strategy to Deal with the Proliferation Challenge: What Has Been Done and What Is to Be Done?

Book Chapter

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

Dr. Ashton B. Carter contributes a chapter to the Aspen Strategy Group's book examining the global proliferation threat and the policy tools at hand to prevent catastrophe.

 

 

October 4, 2004

Overhauling Counterproliferation Intelligence

Testimony

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

Dr. Ashton B. Carter testifies before the Robb-Silberman Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction.

 

 

September/October 2004

How to Counter WMD

Journal Article, Foreign Affairs, issue 5, volume 83

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

Dr. Ashton B. Carter explains the counterproliferation policies needed to successfully wage a war on Weapons of Mass Destruction.

 

 

July 15, 2004

Implementing a Denuclearization Agreement with North Korea

Testimony

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

Dr. Ashton B. Carter testifies before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

 

 

March 17, 2004

Seven Steps to Overhaul Counterproliferation

Testimony

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

Dr. Ashton B. Carter testifies before the House Armed Services Committee.

 

 

March 10, 2004

Overhauling Counterproliferation

Testimony

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

Dr. Ashton B. Carter testifies before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

 

 

December 22, 2003

Good Nukes, Bad Nukes

Op-Ed, New York Times

By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities, Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Dr. Arnold Kanter and General Brent Scowcroft, Editorial Board Member, Quarterly Journal: International Security

Ashton B. Carter, Arnold Kanter, and William J. Perry write about the viability of the Nonproliferation Treaty in this New York Times op-ed.

 

 

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?

 

 

July 2003

An American Security Policy: Challenge, Opportunity, Commitment

Paper

By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities, Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Secretary Madeleine K. Albright, Samuel R. Berger, Louis Caldera, General Wesley K. Clark, Former Senior Advisor, 2001-2009, Preventive Defense Project, General (ret.) John M. Shalikashvili, Former Founding Senior Advisor, Preventive Defense Project, Dr. Elizabeth D. Sherwood-Randall, Former Founding Senior Advisor, Preventive Defense Project, Alfonso E. Lenhardt and John D. Podesta

A paper by the National Security Advisory Group

 

 

March 6, 2003

Alternatives to Letting North Korea Go Nuclear

Testimony

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

Dr. Ashton B. Carter testifies before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

 

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