James Acton

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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James Acton is co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a foreign-policy think-tank, and the author of Deterrence During Disarmament: Deep Nuclear Reductions and International Security .

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