EAST ASIA

October 20, 2004

The Acid Test for China's Resurgent Diplomacy

Op-Ed, Financial Times

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

October 4, 2004

Overhauling Counterproliferation Intelligence

Testimony

By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, 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.

Courtesy Missile Defense Agency

October 2004

"China's ASAT Capabilities: As a Potential Response to US Missile Defense and 'Space Control' Plans"

Journal Article, Ensuring America's Space Security: Report of the FAS Panel on Weapons in Space, Federation of American Scientists

By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

"China is concerned about U.S. missile defense and "space control"plans, which would lead to weaponization of outer space and stimulate a costly and destabilizing arms race. China is further concerned that the US missile defense program, as currently advertised, would neutralize China's strategic nuclear deterrent...."

Fall 2004

"Correspondence: Damn the Torpedoes: Debating Possible U.S. Navy Losses in a Tawian Scenario"

Journal Article, International Security, issue 2, volume 29

By Lyle Goldstein, William Murray and Michael O'Hanlon

The authors debate the likelihood of a Chinese submarine blockade of Taiwan in the next several years.

September 21, 2004

Seattle Vulnerable to Nuclear Terrorism

Op-Ed, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School

Seattle was baptized into the era of terrorism in December 1999 when a customs agent became suspicious of a driver disembarking from a ferry at Port Angeles.

September 15, 2004

"America's Neoconservatives -- All Muscle, No History?"

Magazine or Newspaper Article, The Globalist

By Thomas J. Wright, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2004-2007

Thomas Wright examines America’s ideological hawks and their post-Iraq future.

September 10, 2004

Nuclear Nightmare Closer to Reality

Op-Ed, Balitmore Sun

By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School

Some in the intelligence community now refer to the leader of the al-Qaida movement as "Osama bin Missing." While he lost his sanctuary and terrorist training camps in Afghanistan, bin Laden, his No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and 86 percent of the individuals identified by the U.S. government as al-Qaida leaders remain at large.

September 2004

Legal Standards and Autonomy Options for Minorities in China: THE TIBETAN CASE

Book

By Theodore C. Sorenson and David L. Phillips, Former Non-Resident Fellow, The Future of Diplomacy Project

Legal Standards and Autonomy Options for Minorities in China: The Tibetan Case is a resource for strengthening minority rights and autonomy arrangements in the ethnic Tibetan areas in China. Rather than attempt to address all 55 of China's minority groups, the report focuses on the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and Tibetans in the provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, Yunnan, and Sichuan. Effective autonomy would enhance, not impair, China's sovereignty and territorial integrity while reinforcing its stated commitment to the rule of law. Autonomy is also the best and most realistic way to preserve Tibetan culture.

September/October 2004

How to Counter WMD

Journal Article, Foreign Affairs, issue 5, volume 83

By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities

Dr. Ashton B. Carter explains the counterproliferation policies needed to successfully wage a war on Weapons of Mass Destruction.

August 9, 2004

Lessons of Nagasaki for Fighting Terrorism

Op-Ed, Boston Globe

By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School

THE NUCLEAR bomb dropped on Hiroshima became an icon of the nuclear age, seared into the collective consciousness of postwar Americans by John Hersey's classic book. Fewer Americans remember much about the destruction of Nagasaki three days later on Aug. 9, 1945, and fewer still have reflected on lessons it offers for threats we face today.