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RUSSIA AND FORMER SOVIET UNION

2012 (continued)

June 8, 2012

Russia in Review

Media Feature

Russia in Review: a digest of useful news from U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism for the week of June 1-8, 2012

June 1, 2012

Russia in Review

Media Feature

Russia in Review: a digest of useful news from U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism for the week of May 25 - June 1, 2012

May 18, 2012

Russia in Review

Media Feature

Russia in Review: a digest of useful news from U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism for the week of May 11-18, 2012.

Summer 2012

Belfer Center Newsletter Summer 2012

Newsletter

By Sharon Wilke, Associate Director of Communications

The Summer 2012 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 Belfer Center involvement with the Seoul Nuclear Security Summit and other activities to help shape debate on national and global security. We also spotlight Henry Kissinger’s return to Harvard and his remarks about power and politics, James Baker’s acceptance of the 2012 Great Negotiator Award, and Graham Allison’s cover story in TIME magazine describing decisions behind the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. And more....

Summer 2012

Belfer in Brief

Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter

Happenings and occurences in and around the Belfer Center.

May 11, 2012

Russia in Review

Media Feature

Russia in Review: a digest of useful news from U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism for the week of May 4 - 11, 2012.

May 4, 2012

Russia in Review

Media Feature

Russia in Review: a digest of useful news from U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism for the week of April 27 - May 4, 2012.

May 1, 2012

"Restoring the Spirit of the Elbe Meeting"

Op-Ed, Moscow Times

By Kevin Ryan, Director, Defense and Intelligence Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

"On the eve of the NATO summit in Chicago on May 20-21, it seems that the rhetoric from both the United States and Russia has returned to a more combative past," writes Kevin Ryan, executive director for research at the Belfer Center and noted expert on Russia. "Deep-seated disagreements over missile defense and so-called frozen conflicts in Georgia have renewed suspicions and battered trust between the countries. This corrosive situation is only amplified by the fact that both countries are in an election year when moderation is viewed as a weakness and hyperbole is the norm."

April 27, 2012

Russia in Review

Media Feature

Russia in Review: a digest of useful news from U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism for the week of April 20-27, 2012.

April 13, 2012

Russia in Review

Media Feature

Russia in Review: a digest of useful news from U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism for the week of April 6-April 13, 2012.

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Kevin Ryan

Brigadier General (ret.) Kevin Ryan is Director of the Defense and Intelligence Project and a member of the Center's US-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism. A career military officer, he has extensive service in air and missile defense, intelligence, US-Russian military relations and political-military policy.

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Simon Saradzhyan

Simon Saradzhyan is a research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center. His research interests include nuclear and conventional terrorism, arms control, foreign, defense, security and space policies of Russia and other newly-independent states as well as their relations with the United States and European Union.

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International Security

The spring 2013 issue of the quarterly journal International Security is now available!

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First Joint U.S.-Russia Assessment of Nuclear Terror Threat

Researchers from the U.S. and Russia today issued a joint assessment of the global threat of nuclear terrorism, warning of a persistent danger that terrorists could obtain or make a nuclear device and use it with catastrophic consequences. The study recommends measures to tighten security over existing nuclear weapons and the nuclear materials terrorists would need to make a crude nuclear bomb, along with expanded police and intelligence cooperation to interdict nuclear smuggling and stop terrorist nuclear plots.

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Nuclear Terrorism

Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe

Graham Allison, founding dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, a former top official at the Pentagon, and one of America’s leading scholars of nuclear strategy and national security, presents the evidence and argument that led him to two provocative conclusions: a nuclear terrorist attack on an American city is inevitable on our current course and speed, but preventable if we act now.

All Stocks of Weapons

The danger of nuclear terrorism is real enough to justify urgent action to reduce the risk. Some terrorist groups are actively seeking nuclear weapons and the materials to make them. Nuclear thieves could strike in any country. In this article, we outline a baseline set of adversary capabilities that all stocks of nuclear weapons, plutonium, or HEU should be protected against, no matter what country they are in, including both insiders and outsiders and a range of potential tactics.

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Belfer Center Newsletter Summer 2012

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Russia in Review

"Restoring the Spirit of the Elbe Meeting"

Russia in Review

Russia in Review

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First Joint U.S.-Russia Assessment of Nuclear Terror Threat

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All Stocks of Weapons

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