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Dr. Ashton B. Carter

Dr. Ashton B. Carter

Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project (on leave), Harvard & Stanford Universities

Chair of International & Global Affairs faculty (on leave), 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

 

 

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2005 (continued)

July 1, 2005

Interim Report on Nuclear Threat Reduction and the Fuel Cycle

Report

By Dr. Ashton B. Carter, Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project (on leave), Harvard & Stanford Universities, Dr. Ronald Lehman II, Robert Einhorn, Dr. Alan A. Foley, Dr. David Kay, Dr. Susan Koch, Lawrence Scheinman, Former Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program, 2000-2002, Dr. Arnold Kanter and Dr. William Schneider, Jr


Interim Report from the Policy Advisory Group (PAG), a panel of experts convened to provide advice to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on what Congress and the administration should do to strengthen the NPT system.

 

 

June 27, 2005

Worst People and Worst Weapons

Testimony

By Dr. Ashton B. Carter, Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project (on leave), Harvard & Stanford Universities

Dr. Ashton B. Carter testifies before the 9/11 Public Discourse Project's hearings on "The 9/11 Commission Report: The Unfinished Agenda."

 

 

June 27, 2005

Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction

Transcript

By Dr. Ashton B. Carter, Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project (on leave), Harvard & Stanford Universities, Juliette Kayyem, Member of the Board (on leave), Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Timothy Roemer, Senator Sam Nunn, Leonard Spector and Steven Brill

9/11 Public Discourse Project holds panel discussion on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

 

 

April 5, 2005

A Failure of Policy, Not Spying

Op-Ed, Washington Post

By Dr. Ashton B. Carter, Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project (on leave), Harvard & Stanford Universities

The fallacy in the Bush administration's appointment of a commission to study intelligence failures is that there is almost never such a thing as a pure intelligence failure. Intelligence failure is usually linked to policy failure.

 

 

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 Dr. Ashton B. Carter, Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project (on leave), 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.

 

2004

October 4, 2004

Overhauling Counterproliferation Intelligence

Testimony

By Dr. Ashton B. Carter, Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project (on leave), 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 Dr. Ashton B. Carter, Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project (on leave), 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 Dr. Ashton B. Carter, Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project (on leave), 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 Dr. Ashton B. Carter, Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project (on leave), Harvard & Stanford Universities

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

 

 

March 10, 2004

Overhauling Counterproliferation

Testimony

By Dr. Ashton B. Carter, Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project (on leave), Harvard & Stanford Universities

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

 

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