INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND DEFENSE
July 1989
Testing Weapons in Space
Journal Article, Scientific American, issue 1
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities
Dr. Ashton B. Carter's article in Scientific American
May 28, 1989
Thawing Cold War
Op-Ed, The Dallas Morning Star
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
Once again General Secretary Gorbachev appears to be trying to answer da to a Western proposal -- this time on conventional arms control. Moscow's latest proposal largely accepts the North Atlantic Treaty Organization proposal for reductions in conventional arms by both alliances to equal numbers of tanks, artillery and armored troop carriers. Moreover, the numerical ceilings Mr. Gorbachev proposed are identical with NATO's earlier proposal on tanks and armored troop
March 15, 1989
If Not the Cold War, Then What?
Op-Ed, Chicago Tribune
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
The beginning of East-West conventional arms talks in Vienna represents another window of opportunity for stabilizing a relationship between the two superpowers beyond the Cold War. If not the Cold War, what? What relationship between the superpowers is both desirable and feasible?
February 28, 1989
The Relationship Between the Defense and Commercial Technology Bases
Testimony
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities
Testimony by Dr. Ashton B. Carter
February 19, 1989
Success Is Within Reach
Op-Ed, New York Times
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
With the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the unilateral reductions in tanks and troop divisions in Eastern Europe, Mikhail S. Gorbachev will have sharply reduced the major military threat to American vital interests. If he continues pursuing his current agenda for the next several years, he will pose for the West for the first time since the late 1940's a conceptual challenge: What do we want beyond victory in the cold war?
1989
"Analyzing the Dual Use Technologies Question"
Discussion Paper
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities
Discussion Paper by Dr. Ashton B. Carter
Fall 1988
Testing Gorbachev
Journal Article, Foreign Affairs, issue no. 1, volume vol. 67
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
Criticizes "the failure of American policymakers to develop any concept or strategy for dealing with the 'new-thinking' Soviet leadership". Proposes that "the United States and its allies... reach beyond containment to aggressive engagement of the Soviet Union in ways that encourage Gorbachev's reformist instincts" by means of specific tests of his intentions in the fields of arms control, regional conflict and human rights.
September 4, 1988
Defusing The Nuclear Menace
Op-Ed, Washington Post
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School and Albert Carnesale, Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
ARMS CONTROL has fallen off the nation's political radar in recent months. But it shouldn't. The world is as dangerous as ever.
U.S. and Soviet arsenals number over 50,000 nuclear weapons, most more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima; intercontinental ballistic missiles can deliver these destructive payloads in less than 30 minutes to any point on the globe.
May 3, 1988
Why Ratifying the INF Treaty Really Matters
Op-Ed, Christian Science Monitor
By Albert Carnesale, Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
The United States Senate should vote to ratify the INF Treaty - and it will. As in the committee hearings, debate on the floor focuses on the consequences of this treaty for national security. In the end, most members will agree with Sen. Sam Nunn's conclusion that the treaty makes a 'modest but useful contribution to NATO security.'
1987
"Does Strategic Defense Breed Offense?"
Occasional Paper
By Herbert York, Albert Carnesale, Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities, George Rathjens and Stephen P. Rosen
Occasional Paper from the Center for Science and International Affairs
