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Bruce G. Blair is the president of the World Security Institute, a nonprofit organization that he founded in 2000 to promote independent research and journalism on global affairs.
4 April 2008
Features
CENTER FOR DEFENSE INFORMATION
"The Return of the Doomsday Machine?"
5 September 2007
It turns out that Dr Strangelove isn't a strange fantasy after all -- read a recent Slate article that discusses the reality of a "doomsday device," possibly still in place, to automatically launch Russian nuclear missiles in response to a perceived US attack; the article also highlights the World Security Institute's efforts to convince the US and Russian governments to de-alert their arsenals and take new steps to thwart nuclear disaster.
Click here to read "The Return of the Doomsday Machine?" published by Slate.com on Aug. 31, 2007.
Click here to go to WSI's Center for Defense Information's Nuclear Proliferation project.
Related:
November/December 2008 Defense Monitor - Posted on 4 December 2008
September/October 2008 Defense Monitor - Posted on 6 October 2008
July/August 2008 Defense Monitor - Posted on 31 July 2008
111 Countries Agree to Cluster Munitions Treaty - Posted on 1 July 2008
A Different Kind of Enemy - Posted on 11 June 2008
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Pulitzer Center Featured as Finalist for Game Changers Award by We Media
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12 December 2008
Events
"Project: Report" Event at American University on Jan. 11, 2009
Come join the Pulitzer Center in an evening of films from "Project: Report" on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at American University's Harold and Sylvia Greenberg Theatre, 4200 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
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Publications
Advance Preview of America's Defense Meltdown
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