ARTICLES AND OP-EDS
September 22, 2005
Limiting Secrecy under the Patriot Act
Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
In the next week or so, Congress is expected to vote on a bill to renew certain expiring sections of the Patriot Act. The debate over this law is a crucial conversation for our country and for how we protect both the security and privacy of a free citizenry.
September 19, 2005
Small Steps Toward Nuclear Control
Defense News
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
In September 2000, the U.S. and Russian governments signed the Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement, obligating each to destroy 34 tons of plutonium. As the White House announcement said, this was "enough plutonium to make thousands of nuclear weapons"— 8,000, to be precise. How many of these potential nuclear bombs have been eliminated to date? Zero.
September 14, 2005
A Meeting Long Overdue
San Francisco Chronicle
By Xiaohui (Anne) Wu, Former Associate, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2007–2010; Former Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2004–2007
September 12, 2005
Appointments That Disappoint
Los Angeles Times
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
At the very least, Congress should reconsider its position of "once approved, always approved."
September 10, 2005
Book Review: Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States by Sheila Jasanoff
New Scientist, issue 2516
By Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa
August 31, 2005
Can Democracy Defeat Terrorism?
Taipei Times
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
August 25, 2005
Fits and Starts
Washington Times
By Daniel B. Prieto, Former Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Former Research Director of the Homeland Security Partnership Initiative, 2004-2005
August 20, 2005
Whose Children Will Go to War?
New York Times, Letter to the Editor
By Paul Kane, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, February 2004–August 2008
August 19, 2005
Lockdown of Nuclear Material Best Way to Protect Charleston
The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
If terrorists detonated a nuclear weapon in Charleston, how many people would die? How many devastated survivors would need hospital beds? And in what ways is the country prepared or unprepared?
August 18, 2005
The End of Tyranny in Zimbabwe
Boston Globe
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
TYRANNY OFTEN ends in a whimper, not a conflagration. So it seems in today's Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe's immensely corrupt regime has destroyed a once prosperous African country, leaving behind only the stench of decay.
