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2007 (continued)

February 2007

Assessing the President's FY08 Energy RD&D Budget Request

Paper

By Kelly Sims Gallagher, Senior Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group

An analysis of U.S. Government Investments in Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Database.

February 8, 2007

The Iran Option That Isn't On the Table

Magazine or Newspaper Article, Washington Post

By Vali Nasr, Senior Fellow, Dubai Initiative

As Iran crosses successive nuclear demarcations and mischievously intervenes in Iraq, the question of how to address the Islamic republic is once more preoccupying Washington. Economic sanctions, international ostracism, military strikes and even support for hopeless exiles are all contemplated with vigor and seriousness. One option, however, is rarely assessed: engagement as a means of achieving a more pluralistic and responsible government in Tehran.

January 10, 2007

How Washington Learned to Stop Worrying and Love India's Bomb

Journal Article, Foreign Affairs

By Dr. Ashton B. Carter, Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project (on leave), Harvard & Stanford Universities

Carter's update to his July/August 2006 Foreign Affairs essay "America's New Strategic Partner?"

January / February 2007

"The Sky Is Falling"

Journal Article, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, (Special Issue: Five Minutes to Midnight), issue 1, volume 63

By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program

An interview with John P. Holdren in The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists in the magazine's Five Minutes to Midnight issue.

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January / February 2007

"The North Korean Test and the Limits of Nuclear Forensics"

Magazine or Newspaper Article, Arms Control Today, (Letter to the Editor)

By Jungmin Kang, Frank N. von Hippel and Hui Zhang, Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

Hui Zhang provides a path-breaking technical assessment of the Korean nuclear test, publishing a comment (with co-authors Jungmin Kang and Frank von Hippel) on the test and the limits of nuclear forensics in Arms Control Today.

2006

December 22, 2006

"Ensuring Global Uranium Supplies"

Op-Ed, International Herald Tribune

By Debra K. Decker, Associate, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom and Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan

"...a new look at global atomic energy supplies is sorely needed."

December 19, 2006

Behind the Rise of the Shi'ites

Magazine or Newspaper Article, Time.com

By Vali Nasr, Senior Fellow, Dubai Initiative

The most significant challenge facing the U.S. in an increasingly unstable Middle East today is understanding the rise of the Shi'ites across the region.

2006

"Energy-Technology Innovation"

Journal Article, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, volume 31

By Ambuj D. Sagar, Former Visiting Scholar, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group (ETIP), June 2009; Former Research Fellow, ETIP, 1996-2002; Former Senior Research Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 2007-2008, John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program and Kelly Sims Gallagher, Senior Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group

This paper examines the state of understanding of energy-technology innovation and its role in augmenting energy resources, enhancing the quality of energy services, and reducing the economic, environmental, or political costs associated with energy supply and use.

September 10, 2006

Plan B for Iran: What if Nuclear Diplomacy Fails?

Report

By Dr. Ashton B. Carter, Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project (on leave), Harvard & Stanford Universities and Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project

The Preventive Defense Project conducted a Washington WMD Workshop entitled "Iran Plan B Design" to collect the best thinking on the design of a plan for dealing with Iran's nuclear program should diplomacy fail and the Iranians continue on the path to nuclear capability.

September 2006

Assessing the Benefits, Costs, and Risks of Near-Term Reprocessing and Alternatives

Testimony

By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom; Co-Principal Investigator, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment (ERD3) Policy Project

Testimony of Matthew Bunn for the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Energy and Water Appropriations

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Securing the Bomb 2008

Securing the Bomb 2008

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Project on Managing the Atom Co-Principal Investigator Matthew Bunn provides a comprehensive assessment of efforts to secure and remove vulnerable nuclear stockpiles around the world, and a detailed action plan for reducing the risk of nuclear terrorism. Securing the Bomb 2008 was commissioned by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI). The full report, with additional information on the threat of nuclear terrorism, is available on the NTI website.

International Security

The Summer 2009 issue of the quarterly journal International Security is now available. It includes articles by Matthew Fuhrmann, Elizabeth Stanley, Daniel Lake, Christopher Layne, and more.

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Nuclear Terrorism

Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe

Graham Allison, founding dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, a former top official at the Pentagon, and one of America’s leading scholars of nuclear strategy and national security, presents the evidence and argument that led him to two provocative conclusions: a nuclear terrorist attack on an American city is inevitable on our current course and speed, but preventable if we act now.

Policy Brief

Speaking about the Unspeakable: U.S.-Israeli Dialogue on Iran's Nuclear Program

Despite the longstanding and ever-evolving "special relationship" between the United States and Israel, the two allies do not appear to have engaged in substantive discussions on key facets of their most pressing mutual concern, the Iranian nuclear threat. Specifically, there has been little if any dialogue on the possibility of military action if the diplomatic route comes to a dead end, nor on the possible means of living with a nuclear Iran should both countries decide to refrain from military action.

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