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Belfer Center Newsletter Winter 2013-14

| Winter 2013-14

The Winter 2013-14 issue of the Belfer Center newsletter features recent and upcoming activities, research, and analysis by members of the Center community on critical global issues. This edition highlights six new colleagues from the front lines of government who have joined the Center to engage students, fellows, and faculty on challenges ranging from American competitiveness to denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, China, and Iran. Welcome to Stephen Bosworth, Tom Donilon, Stephen Krasner, Dan Meridor, Michael Morell, and David Petraeus.

This issue also features collaborative efforts by U.S. and Russian generals, officials, and academics to reduce nuclear threats by transcending the mutual deterrence doctrine of the Cold War and by working together to prevent nuclear terrorism. A new report, “Plutonium Mountain: Inside the 17-Year Mission to Secure a Dangerous Legacy of Soviet Nuclear Testing,” tells the story of how scientists and engineers in three countries overcame suspicion, secrecy, and bureaucracy to secure more than a dozen bombs’ worth of plutonium left behind at a Soviet nuclear test site in Kazakhstan.

Also included in the issue is a an interview with Gary Samore, executive director for research and former White House coordinator for arms controls and WMD terrorism, and with Stephen Bosworth, former special envoy on North Korea and, until recently, dean of Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

 

Front Page Feature

Nuclear Threat Reduction

Climate and the Environment

Iran, Syria, and Middle East Uprisings

In the Limelight

Fellows in Focus

In Print

News and Notes

    The Communications Office was assisted in the production of this newsletter by Monica Achen, Josh Anderson, Catalina Gaitan, Bryan Galcik, Ramiro Gonzalez Lorca, Krysten Hartman, Susan Lynch, Martin Malin, Nickolas Roth, Cristine Russell, and Alexandra Van Dine.

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    For Academic Citation: Wilke, Sharon, ed. Belfer Center Newsletter Winter 2013-14. Edited by Wilke, Sharon. Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Winter 2013-14.

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