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Graham Tillett Allison, Jr.
(born 23 March 1940) is an American political scientist and professor at the John F.
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
He is renowned for his contribution in the late 1960s and early 1970s to the bureaucratic analysis of decision making, especially during times of crisis.
His book Remaking Foreign Policy: The Organizational Connection, co-written with Peter Szanton, was published in 1976 and had some influence on the foreign policy of the administration of President Jimmy Carter which took office in early 1977.
Since the 1970s, Allison has also been a leading analyst of U.
S.
national security and defense policy, with a special interest in nuclear weapons and terrorism.
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President Mikhail Gorbachev recounts the end of the Cold War and the reduction of nuclear arms.
Although the Cold War is behind us, the threat of nuclear disaster remains very real. Director Lucy Walker discusses the invention of the atomic bomb and brings the story into the present day, examining the possibility of nuclear calamity under the categories of "Madness," "Accident" and "Miscalculation." With narration by Gary Oldman, the film includes a hypothetical sequence of a nuclear explosion in New York City's Times Square, timed to coincide with the New Year's Eve countdown.