Cynthia Lazaroff

Cynthia Lazaroff is a documentary filmmaker who has spent the past year interviewing officials and experts in the United States and Russia on nuclear dangers. She has founded groundbreaking US-Russian exchange initiatives since the early 1980s. Cynthia lives with Bruce Allyn and their family on a farm on Kaua’i. She and Bruce are engaged in Track II diplomacy with Russia and worked together on a series of dialogues on the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

Dawn of a New Armageddon

This particular January morning starts out like almost every other Saturday morning here on Kaua’i, though the sunrise at first light is exceptionally beautiful,...

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