BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS
October 2011
Our Own Worst Enemy? Institutional Interests and the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Expertise
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, many observers feared that terrorists and rogue states would obtain weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or knowledge about how to build them from the vast Soviet nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons complex. The United States launched a major effort to prevent former Soviet WMD experts, suddenly without salaries, from peddling their secrets. In Our Own Worst Enemy, Sharon Weiner chronicles the design, implementation, and evolution of four U.S. programs that were central to this nonproliferation policy and assesses their successes and failures.
Winner of the 2012 Louis Brownlow Book Award
Sudan: Policy Options Amid Civil War
By Debbie West, Former Program Coordinator, Intrastate Conflict Program
May 2001
Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities and John P. White, Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Most national security debates concern the outcomes of policies, neglecting the means by which those policies are implemented. This book argues that although the US military is the finest fighting force in the world, the system that supports it is in disrepair. Operating with Cold War-era structures and practices, it is subject to managerial and organizational problems that increasingly threaten our military's effectiveness.
September 2000
Preface and Acknowledgements
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities and John P. White, Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Chapter in Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future
September 2000
Advancing the Revolution in Business Affairs
By Michael J. Lippitz, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2003-2004, Sean O'Keefe and John P. White, Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Chapter in Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future
September 2000
Ensuring Quality People in Defense
By David S.C. Chu, John P. White, Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John Brown and Nurith Berstein
Chapter in Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future
September 2000
Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities and John P. White, Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Defense experts explore how the United States can rectify organizational and managerial problems to maximize its military effectiveness.
April 2007
"The Seven Myths of Nuclear Terrorism"
By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom and Anthony Wier, Former Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 2002-2007
This chapter is based on "The Seven Myths of Nuclear Terrorism" which appeared in the April 2005 issue of Current History.
September, 2006
Terrorist Nuclear Weapon Construction: How Difficult?
By Anthony Wier, Former Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 2002-2007 and Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
May, 2005
Securing the Bomb 2005: The New Global Imperatives
By Anthony Wier, Former Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 2002-2007 and Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
