CHINA AND NUCLEAR ISSUES
Summer 2006
"Q&A with Jeffrey Lewis"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
Jeffrey Lewis recently joined the Belfer Center as the executive director of the Managing the Atom Project. MTA is a cooperative effort by two programs at the Center aimed at bringing together scholars and practitioners to conduct policy-relevant research on key strategic issues affecting the future of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy technology.
April 25, 2006
King Gyanendra, We Gave You Fair Warning
Op-Ed, Chicago Tribune
By Xenia Dormandy, Former Senior Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Warnings went unheeded. Now, after two weeks of major demonstrations, the king finally gets it— or at least he says he does. Unfortunately, his actions lag far behind.
Spring 2006
"Space Weaponization and Space Security: A Chinese Perspective"
Journal Article, China Security, issue 1, volume 2
By Hui Zhang, Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
"...China is worried about how U.S. space weaponization plans might affect Chinese national security, international security, and protection of the space environment...."
March 12, 2006
The Nightmare This Time
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School
According to a recent Gallup poll, most Americans now view Iran as our country's greatest national enemy. Indeed, a Washington Post-ABC News survey reports that 42 percent of Americans support a military strike to prevent Iran from developing nuclear technology.
Arms Control Today
December 2005
"Action/Reaction: U.S. Space Weaponization and China"
Magazine or Newspaper Article, Arms Control Today, issue 10, volume 35
By Hui Zhang, Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
"Chinese officials have expressed a growing concern that U.S. space and missile defense plans will stimulate a costly and destabilizing arms race...."
June 10, 2005
"Act Now to Stop a Space Arms Race"
Op-Ed, Financial Times
By Hui Zhang, Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
"While the US views — and characterises — these weapons as defensive, to China and to many other countries the construction of such a system looks more like the development of the Death Star spaceship in the Star Wars film series...."
May 16-17, 2005
"The U.S. Weaponization of Space: Chinese Perspectives"
Presentation
By Hui Zhang, Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Presentation at the Nuclear Policy Research Institute Conference:
Full Spectrum Dominance: The Impending Weaponization of Space,
Warrenton, Virginia, May 16–17, 2005.
May 7, 2005
"Nuclear Pact in Real Trouble"
Op-Ed, The Irish Times
By Thomas J. Wright, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2004-2007
Could the World Be on the Path to a New Nuclear Crisis?
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, 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...."
January/February 2004
How to Stop Nuclear Terror
Journal Article, Foreign Affairs, issue no. 1, volume vol. 83
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School
President Bush has called nuclear terror the defining threat the United States now faces. He's right, but he has yet to follow up his words with actions. This is especially frustrating since nuclear terror is preventable. Washington needs a strategy based on the "Three No's": no loose nukes, no nascent nukes, and no new nuclear states.
