Countdown to Zero film screening with Executive Producer Bruce G. Blair

 EPIIC, as part of its 25th anniversary year on "Our Nuclear Age: Peril and Promise," presents a screening of Countdown to Zero, a documentary that explores the global history of nuclear weapons.  Dr. Bruce G. Blair, the film's executive producer, will introduce the film and stay to discuss it with the audience follow the screening. 

Dr. Blair is the president of the World Security Institute. He is an expert on U.S. and Russian security policies, specializing in nuclear forces and command-control systems; in 1999, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship Prize for his work on de-alerting nuclear forces. Blair was a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution from 1987 to 2000.  He served as a project director at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment from 1982 to 1985.  From 1970 to 1974, Blair served in the U.S. Air Force as a Minuteman ICBM launch control officer and as a support officer for the Strategic Air Command’s Airborne Command Post.  He is a participant and lead author in the Hoover Institute-Nuclear Threat Initiative’s Nuclear Security Project.