Richard Smoke
Encyclopedia
Richard Smoke was an American historian
, and political scientist.
magna cum laude in 1965, and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
with a Ph.D. in 1972. He became a professor at Brown University
. Smoke committed suicide in 1995.
He was the co-founder of the Center for Peace and Common Security.
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
, and political scientist.
Life
He graduated from Harvard UniversityHarvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
magna cum laude in 1965, and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
with a Ph.D. in 1972. He became a professor at Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
. Smoke committed suicide in 1995.
He was the co-founder of the Center for Peace and Common Security.
Works
- War: Controlling Escalation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1978. ISBN 9780674945951
- 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. ISBN 9780813304922
- Think About Nuclear Arms Control: Understanding the Arms Race. New York: Walker, 1988. ISBN 9780802767622
- Mutual Security: A New Approach to Soviet-American Relations. (editor with Andrei Kotunov) New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991. ISBN 9780333546734