NUCLEAR ISSUES
March 23, 2001
US Needs a Plan to Halt Russia's Nuclear Arms Sales to Iran
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
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
February 18, 2001
'Thirteen Days' and its Ageless Lessons for Tomorrow
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
The movie 'Thirteen Days' dramatizes the most dangerous moment in human history: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. It also reminds us vividly of an inescapable truth about the world today. As George W. Bush took office, the United States and Russia each continued to maintain active arsenals of more than 4,000 nuclear warheads on alert missiles ready for momentary launching. The new president thus serves not only as American commander in chief and leader of the free world, but also as final arbiter of the nation's survival.
2001
The PCAST Energy Studies: Toward a National Consensus on Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment Policy
Journal Article, Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, volume 26
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program and Samuel F. Baldwin
During the period 1995-1999, the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) produced three major energy studies, at President Clinton's request. The PCAST energy studies demonstrate the possibility of forging consensus around key energy issues and provide a foundation on which, it is hoped, the continuing pursuit of a coherent national policy on energy innovation will be able to build.
January/February 2001
Keeping America's Military Edge
Journal Article, Foreign Affairs, issue 1, volume 80
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities
Dr. Ashton B. Carter in Foreign Affairs.
Winter 2000/01
"Power, Globalization, and the End of the Cold War: Reevaluating a Landmark Case for Ideas"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 3, volume 25
By Stephen Brooks, Former Fellow, International Security Program, 2003-2004 and William Wohlforth, Editorial Board Member, Quarterly Journal: International Security
The authors marshal evidence from recently released sources to argue that shifting material pressures resulting from changes in the structure of global production had a much greater influence on Soviet foreign policy in the 1980s than previously thought.
Winter 2000/01
"Whether to "Strangle the Baby in the Cradle": The United States and the Chinese Nuclear Program, 1960-64"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 3, volume 25
By William Burr and Jeffrey T. Richelson
Based on an exhaustive study of newly declassified documents, the authors report that the Kennedy administration embarked on a huge intelligence effort that included U-2 flights, satellite reconnaissance, and even talks with the Soviet Union on joint action. By the time of China's first nuclear test on October 16, 1964, however, Kennedy's successor, Lyndon Johnson, and his advisers had decided against direct confrontation with China, having concluded that not only was a nuclear China a threat the United States could live with, but that a confrontation with Beijing on the eve of a presidential election might prove politically unwise.
November / December 2000
Saga of the Siberian Plutonium Production Reactors
Journal Article, F. A. S. Public Interest Report, issue 6, volume 53
By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
September 25, 2000
A Partisan Panel Scatters Poppycock
Op-Ed, Los Angeles Times
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
Twelve Republican House members, constituted as the Cox Commission on Russia, have issued a report on the Clinton administration's policy toward Russia that amounts to "sound and fury," in Shakespeare's fine phrase, "signifying nothing." Nothing except that, in the midst of a presidential campaign, a dozen Republican members of Congress dislike Clinton and Al Gore and support Texas Gov. George W. Bush.
September 2000
Preface and Acknowledgements
Book Chapter
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
Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future
Book Chapter
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities
Chapter in Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future
