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U.S.-Korea relations, especially related to nuclear weapons issues, have long been a focus of the Belfer Center and its experts, who research, analyze, and take part in relevant security-related activities. The Center-based Harvard Korea Working Group addresses key policy questions about major security transformations on the Korean Peninsula through activities that brings together practitioners, researchers, and professional degree students.

Managing the Atom and International Security Program Fellow Reid Pauly discusses his research at the Belfer Center.

Mahsa Rouhi’s research bridges the academic and policy worlds on nuclear and international security issues in the Middle East. Having grown up in Iran, she brings a unique perspective to her work.

In February, the Pentagon released a new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), a comprehensive overview of the nation’s nuclear forces, their disposition, and plans for the future. Here, Belfer Center experts share their assessments of this NPR and the future of America’s nuclear capabilities.

While his grammar school classmates gleefully followed sports cars and soccer stars, Elmar Hellendoorn would get excited about the newest airplanes and tanks. No surprise, growing up next to a U.S. airbase in Soesterberg, Netherlands. "F-15s were always flying over and as a young kid you would stand on a hill so you could see the planes taking off," he recalled.

Matthew Bunn, Nicholas Burns, Ash Carter, John Park, Gary Samore, and Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall provide expert analysis on nuclear tests and threats from North Korea.