Belfer in Brief

Charlie Rose Show Highlights Center's Iran Game

Belfer Center Director GrahamAllison, along with Center board of directors' member NicholasBurns, International Security Program Research Fellow EhudEiran, and Columbia University Professor GarySick, were guests on the "Charlie Rose Show" in January, discussing the findings of a Belfer Center simulation game that illuminated the possible evolution of the Iranian nuclear crisis over the next year.

Bogis Works to Improve Community Response to Disasters

Belfer Center Fellow ArnoldBogis has been working on a Department of Homeland Security-funded project run by George Washington University on community medical resilience, an effort to get beyond standard concepts of surge capacity (e.g., increasing hospital capacity) following a catastrophic event. This initiative focuses on developing a definition of what constitutes community medical resiliency, identifying barriers to achieving this goal, and expanding existing solutions to reach beyond conventional ideas about preparedness and response.

Zinberg Discusses Development in Syria

DorothyZinberg, lecturer in public policy with the Belfer Center, gave the keynote speech at the first International Development Conference of Syria held in Damascus in January. Her talk, "Vital Links," explored interrelated conditions necessary for development to gain momentum.

Center's Nuclear Experts in "Countdown to Zero"

The Belfer Center's GrahamAllison, MatthewBunn, and RolfMowatt-Larssen have significant roles in the new documentary film "Countdown to Zero." It has been described by producer LawrenceBender (also producer of "An Inconvenient Truth") as an "edge of the seat wake-up call about global nuclear threat." In the days leading up to the Nuclear Security Summit, the film was screened for policymakers and shapers in Washington, D.C.