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| - Bruce G. Blair (born 1947) is the president of the World Security Institute, a non-profit organization that he founded in 2000 to promote independent research and journalism on global affairs. He is an executive producer of Countdown to Zero, a documentary film on nuclear weapons, which was released in 2010. He also created and was the executive producer of the PBS weekly television series Superpower: Global Affairs Television (2002–2004), and was the executive producer of Azimuth Media and their weekly PBS television series, Foreign Exchange, which was first hosted by Fareed Zakaria (2005–2007) and subsequently by Daljit Dhaliwal (2008–2009).
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| - Bruce G. Blair (born 1947) is the president of the World Security Institute, a non-profit organization that he founded in 2000 to promote independent research and journalism on global affairs. He is an executive producer of Countdown to Zero, a documentary film on nuclear weapons, which was released in 2010. He also created and was the executive producer of the PBS weekly television series Superpower: Global Affairs Television (2002–2004), and was the executive producer of Azimuth Media and their weekly PBS television series, Foreign Exchange, which was first hosted by Fareed Zakaria (2005–2007) and subsequently by Daljit Dhaliwal (2008–2009). He is also the publisher of Washington ProFile (Russian), Washington Observer (Chinese), Washington Prism (Persian), Taqrir Washington (Arabic) and China Security. He was also the executive producer of two television documentaries, CNN Presents’ Deadlock: Russia’s Forgotten War and the PBS FRONTLINE’s Missile Wars in 2002. Dr. Blair is Co-Founder of Global Zero, an international non-partisan group of 300 world leaders dedicated to achieving the elimination of nuclear weapons. He is an expert on U.S. and Russian security policies, specializing in nuclear forces and Command and control systems. He has frequently testified before Congress and has taught security studies as a visiting professor at Yale and Princeton universities. In 1999, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship Prize for his research, work and leadership on de-alerting nuclear forces. In 2008, he was selected as a finalist for a Skoll Social Entrepreneur Award. Dr. Blair was a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution from 1987 to 2000. In previous positions, he served as a project director at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment from 1982 to 1985. From 1970 to 1974, Dr. Blair served in the U.S. Air Force, serving as a Minuteman ICBM launch control officer and support officer for the Strategic Air Command’s Airborne Command Post. He is the author of numerous books and articles on security issues in such publications as Scientific American, National Interest, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. His books include Strategic Command and Control (Brookings, 1985), winner of the Edgar S. Furniss Award for its contribution to the study of national security; Crisis Stability and Nuclear War (Oxford, 1988; co-editor); The Logic of Accidental Nuclear War (Brookings, 1993); and Global Zero Alert for Nuclear Forces (Brookings, 1995). Dr. Blair earned a Ph.D. in operations research at Yale University in 1984. He received his B.S. in communications from the University of Illinois in 1970. He resides part-time in Washington, D.C. and in Princeton, N.J.. He has 4 children: Carrie (b. 1971), Erica (b. 1973), Paoro (b. 1987), Thomas (b. 1996).
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