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This section of the Belfer Center newsletter includes highlights from the Fall 2011 edition of the International Security journal.

When the Academy Award-winning producer of An Inconvenient Truth,Lawrence Bender, wanted to create a new nuclear proliferation film, he turned to leading experts at the Belfer Center.

In this Q&A, we asked Belfer Center alumni Gary Samore and Laura Holgate to comment on the planning and successes of the Nuclear Security Summit, which they were responsible for organizing. The Summit that brought 46 global leaders to Washington, D.C. in April was a major step by President Obama to "ensure that terrorists never acquire a nuclear weapon." Samore, coordinator for arms control and weapons of mass destruction, proliferation, and terrorism, and Holgate, senior director for weapons of mass destruction terrorism and threat reduction, are alumni of the Belfer Center's International Security Program.

"When the Belfer Center's Broadmoor Project launched in October 2006, a year after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans' Broadmoor neighborhood, it was difficult to imagine how much progress would be possible. But the project's partnership between Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) students and the Broadmoor community has delivered impressive results and invaluable lessons to the neighborhood and beyond."

New and notable books from the Belfer Center.

Notable quotes from opeds and testimonies.

Rory Stewart is the Ryan Family Professor of the Practice of Human Rights and  director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and a member of the Belfer Center Board of Directors. A former  officer in the British Army and deputy governate coordinator with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, Stewart spent two years walking 6,000 miles across Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal - a journey he describes in his critically acclaimed book  The Places in Between.

The latest publications released by Belfer Center faculty and fellows.

Preventive Defense Project Co-Director Ashton Carter appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in November to comment on the implications of the July 18, 2005 Joint Statement between the United States and India committing both countries to cooperate in the area of civil nuclear power. India, one of the countries never to have signed the NPT, tested nuclear weapons in 1974 and 1998 and is barred by U.S. law and international convention from engaging in any nuclear commerce with the United States. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee's NPT Policy Advisory Group on the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which Carter co-chairs, was asked to review the Bush-Singh deal and recommend to the Congress whether to support or reject the Bush initiative.