Graham Allison Biography

Founding dean of Harvard's modern John F. Kennedy School of Government and Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Graham Allison has for three decades been a leading analyst of U.S. national security and defense policy with a special interest in terrorism. He served as Special Advisor to the Secretary of Defense under President Reagan and as Assistant Secretary of Defense in the first Clinton Administration during which Dr. Allison received the Defense Department's highest civilian award the Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service for reshaping relations with Russia Ukraine Belarus and Kazakhstan to reduce the former Soviet nuclear arsenal. This resulted in the safe return of more than 12000 tactical nuclear weapons from the former Soviet republics and the complete elimination of more than 4000 strategic nuclear warheads previously targeted at the U.S. and left in Ukraine Kazakhstan and Belarus when the Soviet Union disappeared.
As Director of BCSIA Dr. Allison has assembled a team of more than two dozen leading scholars and practitioners of national security to analyze terrorism in its multiple dimensions. Dr. Allison was the organizer of the Commission on America's National Interests (1996 and 2000) that included leading Senators and national security specialists from across the country (former Senator Sam Nunn Senators John McCain Bob Graham and Pat Roberts Condoleezza Rice Richard Armitage Robert Ellsworth and others).

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