Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
The Belfer Center is the hub of the Harvard Kennedy School's research, teaching, and training in international security affairs, environmental and resource issues, and science and technology policy.
Location: Cambridge, MA
Website: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/
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The author reviews his recent study using historical examples to predict how states will act once they have acquired nuclear weapons, finding "history suggests that if Iran were to acquire nuclear weapons, it would be less universally emboldened than the pessimists fear, but nor would it find nuclear weapons to be useless."
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The author argues that, paradoxically, an Iranian economy that is growing and reconnected to the world economy is more susceptible to sanctions due to U.S. dominance of the global financial system.
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Matthew Bunn analyzed the nuclear deal reached in Vienna and gives his perspectives on the proposed agreement.
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Saudi Arabia has for past several years been laying the groundwork for a civil nuclear program with no military intent but the pending nuclear deal is compelling the Kingdom to engage in a contingency planning for a defensive nuclear program with military intent.
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The author argues that the U.S. should give the nuclear deal a chance to succeed given the paucity of alternatives to the deal and the promise that a peaceful solution to the issue would have for promoting stability in the region.
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The author argues that "the empirical record does not support claims that air strikes on states' nuclear weapons infrastructure always produce the desired results."
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Graham Allison is director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the author of "Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe."
Associate, Project on Managing the Atom Aaron Arnold is an Associate of the Project on Managing the Atom. Prior to joining MTA, Aaron spent nine years as a non-proliferation and counterproliferation consultant to Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Justice. His work primarily focused on proliferation threat finance and sanctions evasion.
Professor at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center Matthew Bunn is a professor at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and is co-principal investigator with the Belfer Center’s Project on Managing the Atom. He is a former adviser on nonproliferation in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he focused on control of nuclear weapons and materials.
Assistant Professor of Political Science in the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University Robert J. Reardon is Assistant Professor of Political Science in the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Containing Iran: Strategies for Addressing the Iranian Nuclear Challenge (RAND Corporation, 2012).
