LETTERS
January 1, 2001
Letter to Presidents Bush and Putin in Wake of WTC Attack
By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
We are appalled by the terrorist attacks last week in New York and Washington D.C. Our sympathies are with the innocent victims and their families and friends. But we are also extremely alarmed by this event. There can now be little doubt that if such terrorists obtain weapons of mass destruction in the future they will use them. It is imperative, therefore, that preventing terrorists from gaining access to the technologies and materials of weapons of mass destruction - including nuclear materials - be a high priority component of the new global battle against terrorism.
January 1, 1997
Immobilization Form Peer Review Panel Report
By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
This letter represents the report of the Peer Review Panel, convened to review the recommendation and supporting documentation relating to the choice between glass and ceramic forms for immobilization of excess weapons plutonium. The Panel met August 18-21, 1997, and reviewed the second (partial) draft of the Technical Evaluation Panel (TEP) report and the initial working draft of the Final Immobilization Form Assessment and Recommendation prepared by immobilization program management at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), both dated August 17. The Panel also considered additional documentation and presentations, including presentations by advocates for both the glass and ceramic waste forms.
March 11, 2011
Response to Sri Lanka Nation Article on "War, Peace, and Reconciliation: The Way Forward for Sri Lanka" Seminar
By Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Harvard Kennedy School
The article “LTTE threat to disrupt Harvard discussion on Lanka turns into damp squib”, published on March 6, presented a severely distorted account of the March 1 seminar at the Harvard Kennedy School, “War, Peace, and Reconciliation: The Way Forward for Sri Lanka” and makes a number of inaccurate claims about individuals associated with the event.
December 2, 2004
Diplomacy and Protection
By Denise Garcia, Former Associate: International Security Program (ISP)/Intrastate Conflict Program (ICP), 2007–2010; Former Research Fellow, ISP/ICP, 2003–2006
March 25, 2003
Letter Report from the Co-Chairs of the Joint Committee on U.S.-Russian Cooperation on Nuclear Non-Proliferation
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
June 1, 1997
Letter to Presidents Yeltsin and Clinton
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program and Evgeny Velikhov
We respectfully submit the Final Report of the U.S.-Russian Independent Scientific Commission on Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium. We strongly urge that the U.S. and Russian governments, with support and cooperation from the international community, take additional steps - beyond those already underway - to more rapidly reduce the security risks posed by excess weapons plutonium, ensuring that this material will never again be returned to nuclear weapons. Our report recommends specific steps to meet this objective, including the technologies that can be used, a step-by-step plan of action for bringing these technologies into operation as rapidly as practicable, an international cooperative approach to financing the program, and establishment of an international entity to coordinate the necessary financing and implement the effort.
November 12, 2002
Young Leader or an Affront to Democracy?
By Brenda Shaffer, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 1999–2007; Former Research Director, Caspian Studies Program, 2000–2005; Former Research Director, Caspian Studies Project, 2005–2007
June 1, 1997
Letter to Presidents Yeltsin and Clinton
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program and Evgeny Velikhov
We respectfully submit the Final Report of the U.S.-Russian Independent Scientific Commission on Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium. We strongly urge that the U.S. and Russian governments, with support and cooperation from the international community, take additional steps - beyond those already underway - to more rapidly reduce the security risks posed by excess weapons plutonium, ensuring that this material will never again be returned to nuclear weapons. Our report recommends specific steps to meet this objective, including the technologies that can be used, a step-by-step plan of action for bringing these technologies into operation as rapidly as practicable, an international cooperative approach to financing the program, and establishment of an international entity to coordinate the necessary financing and implement the effort.
