Richard Smoke Explained

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
• Book: Deterrence in American Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice. registration. Richard Smoke.. Alexander L. George . Richard Smoke . Columbia University Press. 1974. 978-0-231-03838-6 .
• War: Controlling Escalation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1978.
• 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.
• Think About Nuclear Arms Control: Understanding the Arms Race. New York: Walker, 1988.
• Mutual Security: A New Approach to Soviet-American Relations. (editor with Andrei Kotunov) New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.
• "National Security and the Nuclear Dilemma: An Introduction to the American Experience in the Cold War." McGraw Hill, 1993.
• Book: Perceptions of Security: Public Opinion and Expert Assessments in Europe's New Democracies. Richard Smoke. Manchester, UK. Manchester University Press. 1996. 978-0-7190-4813-5 .

References

https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/bios/Smoke__Richard

Notes and References

1. Web site: "Richard Smoke", Pennsylvania State University, Alan Jalowitz, Fall 2006.
2. Toward the control of escalation: a historical analysis . Richard . Smoke . 1972 . Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science . 2022-05-05.
3. Web site: Page No Longer Available | UC Irvine Libraries. www.lib.uci.edu.