Chairman's Note

lnternational Security 16:3 I 4 disaster, because it impelled the United States into a long war against Japan in Asia when a less costly policy of containment might have been more successful. Gar Alperovitz and Robert Messer respond to Barton Bernstein’s Spring 1991 article, which argued that the U.S. decision to drop the bomb on Japan may not have been directed against the Soviet Union; Bernstein replies. Finally, this issue is my last as Managing Editor of International Security. 1 have had the good fortune to edit this journal during a period of exciting and unexpected changes in international politics. I was also fortunate to have had the assistance of many able colleagues who shared my commitment to the journal. But 1 have decided that the time has come to return to my own scholarship, so 1will happily turn my attention back to several long-delayed research projects. --Sean M. Lynn-Jones Chairman’sNote I 1 W t h this issue, Sean Lynn-Jones steps down as Managing Editor after four years of distinguished service to International Security to enjoy a well-deserved stint as a research fellow at the Center for Science and International Affairs, editing his own thoughts rather than those of others. Readers should know what authors already know, namely that Sean and his staff deserve most of the credit for the journal’s high standards of intellectual cogency and policy relevance. We are all in his debt. It is the great good fortune of International Security that oversight of the journal will be assumed by Editor Steven Miller, who upon his return to Harvard will also serve as Director of Studies at CSlA. Steve served from 1981-84 as Managing Editor of the journal, from 1984-90 with me as Co-editor, and for the past year as Editor. He is thereforewell acquainted with the journal’s operations and with the community of thinkers about security problems that it serves. It is also my pleasure to announce the promotion of Assistant Managing Editor Teresa Johnson to the position of Deputy Editor, after more than four years of firstrate involvement in the running of the journal. Anyone whose work has been in Teresa‘s meticulous hands will attest to the high degree of skill and energy she brings to the task of making every article as good as it can be. With Steve in command, Teresa on board, and Sean in residence at CSlA (where he will continue to serve IS as Consulting Editor), readers and contributors can look forward to International Security’s continued dedication to its community of readers and authors and to the cause of reasoned debate in international security affairs. -Ashton B. Carter ...