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Dr. William J. Perry

Dr. William J. Perry

Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project

19th Secretary of Defense for the United States

 

 

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Nuclear proliferation (continued)

October 20, 2002

Nuclear over North Korea: Back to the Brink

Op-Ed, Washington Post

By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities and Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project

Carter & Perry call for determination and patience in responding to the North Koreans' recent revelation of their nuclear program.

 

 

May 21, 2002

Still Missing: A Nuclear Strategy

Op-Ed, Washington Post

By Senator Sam Nunn, Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project and Gen. (ret.) Eugene Habiger, USAF

Op-Ed by Sam Nunn, William J. Perry, and Eugene Habiger in The Washington Post

 

 

September 2000

Countering Asymmetric Threats

Book Chapter

By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities, Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project and David Aidekman

Chapter in Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future

 

 

October 12, 1999

Review of United States Policy Toward North Korea: Findings and Recommendations

Report

By Office of the North Korea Policy Coordinator, United States Department of State and Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project

The policy review team determined that a fundamental review of U.S. policy was indeed needed, since much has changed in the security situation on the Korean Peninsula since the 1994 crisis. The review focuses ondevelopments in the DPRK''s nuclear and long-range missile activities.

 

 

August 1999

Preventive Diplomacy and Preventive Defense in South Asia: The U.S. Role

Occasional Paper, volume 2

By Warren Christopher, David Hamburg, International Council Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project

Conference Report on the challenges of preventive diplomacy and preventive defense in South Asia.

 

 

March 1999

Preventive Defense: A New Security Strategy for America

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

"The most important book by any ex-Clinton official."

-Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times (April 16, 1999)

 

 

July 1998

"Content of U.S. Engagement with China"

Occasional Paper, volume 1

By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities and Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project

This workshop report describes the policies and programs that will give content to the security dimension of engagement and increase the probability that China will emerge as a security partner, rather than an adversary, of the United States in the 21st century.

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

Spring 2009

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy

Report

By Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project and General Brent Scowcroft, Editorial Board Member, Quarterly Journal: International Security

Perry and Scowcroft chaired the Council on Foreign Relations independent task force on U.S. nuclear weapons policy.  The final report of the task force is provided here.

 

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