Richard Smoke
Richard Smoke (October 21, 1944, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania – May 1995, Sarasota, California) was an American historian and political scientist.
Life
He graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude in 1965, and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. in political science in 1972. His doctoral thesis was entitled Toward the control of escalation: a historical analysis and his advisor was William W. Kaufmann. A professor of political science, he became the Research Director of the Watson Institute's Center For Foreign Policy Development at Brown University in 1985. Smoke committed suicide in 1995.[1][2]
He was the co-founder of the Center for Peace and Common Security.[3] An internship at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies has been named in his honor.
Awards
- 1975 Bancroft Prize
Works
- "America's 'New Thinking'", Foreign Policy, Fall, 1988
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- War: Controlling Escalation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1978. Template:ISBN
- National Security and Nuclear Weapons. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1983.
- Beyond the Hotline: Controlling a Nuclear Crisis: A Report to the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. (with William Langer Ury) Cambridge, MA: Nuclear Negotiation Project, Harvard Law School, 1984.
- Paths to Peace: Exploring the Feasibility of Sustainable Peace. (with Willis Harman) Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1987. Template:ISBN
- Think About Nuclear Arms Control: Understanding the Arms Race. New York: Walker, 1988. Template:ISBN
- Mutual Security: A New Approach to Soviet-American Relations. (editor with Andrei Kotunov) New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Template:ISBN
- "National Security and the Nuclear Dilemma: An Introduction to the American Experience in the Cold War." McGraw Hill, 1993. Template:ISBN
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- 1944 births
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- People from Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
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- Bancroft Prize winners
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