Richard Smoke
Introduction '''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.He was the co-founder of the Center for Peace and Common Security. 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* * ''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. *
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