Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard University where he studies national security with special interests in nuclear proliferation, China and Russia. Professor Allison was the first dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and served as the director of its Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs until 2017. He is the author of the 2017 book Destined For War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? and co-author of the seri