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Belfer Center, Nuclear Terrorism, Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is proud to host a Director's Lunch on “Is Nuclear Terrorism Preventable?” with Graham T. Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Graham Allison has for three decades been a leading analyst of U.S.national security and defense policy with a special interest in terrorism. As Assistant Secretary of Defense in the first Clinton Administration, Dr. Allison received the Defense Department's highest civilian award, the Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, for "reshaping relations with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstanto reduce the former Soviet nuclear arsenal." This resulted in the safe return of more than 12,000 tactical nuclear weapons from the former Soviet republics and the complete elimination of more than 4,000 strategic nuclear warheads previously targeted at the U.S.and left in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belaruswhen the Soviet Uniondisappeared.
As Director of BCSIA, Dr. Allison has assembled a team of more than two dozen leading scholars and practitioners of national security to analyze terrorism in its multiple dimensions. Products include: Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy(1996), America's Achilles Heel: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack(1998), Catastrophic Terrorism(1998), and others.
Dr. Allison is also a leading analyst of Russiaand its transformation to democracy and market economy as well as an authority on the threat of loose nukes and weapons of mass destruction. He is the author of a dozen books, hundreds of articles in the foremost journals and newspapers and is a sought-after speaker and commentator. Dr. Allison's seminal book, Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, first published in 1971, and significantly revised and re-issued in 1999, ranks among the bestsellers in political science with more than 400,000 copies in print.
Dr. Allison will be speaking on his latest book Nuclear Terrorism: the Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe. It presents a strategy for preventing nuclear terrorism organized under a doctrine of "Three Nos:" no loose nukes; no new nascent nukes; and no new nuclear weapons states.
We hope you can join us for what will be an interesting and informative discussion.