Nuclear Issues

The Belfer Center's Graham Allison, Nicholas Burns, Ashraf Hegazy, Joseph S. Nye, and Stephen Walt consider the U.S.'s shifting foreign policy in the Middle East.

On November 8, the Belfer Center's Dubai Initiative and the Dubai School of Government will sponsor a conference titled The Middle East: Between Progress and Conflict. Speakers and panelists at the conference will provide a framework for analyzing the divergent trends at play in the Middle East through academic discussions and policy-making debates.

Belfer Center's faculty in the news.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's announcement that his country has completed a uranium enrichment cycle was met with great fanfare in the country, and much worry around the world.

On March 31, 2005, the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, concluded that the "Intelligence Community was dead wrong in almost all of its pre-war judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction." Co-chaired by Laurence H. Silberman and Charles S. Robb, the WMD Commission presented its findings to President Bush after a year of intense research and interviews.

While United Nations reform efforts have been at the forefront of the news in recent months, reform activity has been underway within the U.N. for several years. The Belfer Center has been contributing its expertise to the reform debate on several fronts.

On April 5, the Belfer Center, together with the United Nations Foundation and the Nuclear Threat Initiative, convened a group of top nuclear arms control experts and leaders at the Kennedy School for a roundtable discussion to formulate recommendations on how the United Nations might take a renewed leadership role in nuclear nonproliferation. The session was held at the request of a high-level panel convened by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to propose measures to counter threats to global peace and security.