{"65668":{"#nid":"65668","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Former CIA WMD Chief Speaks on WMD Terrorism Threat","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\nOn Tuesday April 5th, Mr. Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Senior Fellow at Harvard University\u0027s Belfer Center, spoke on \u0022WMD Terrorism Threat:  Lessons Learned from Al-Qaeda\u0022 as part of the 2011 CISTP lecture series.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter more than two decades in intelligence with the CIA and U.S. Department of Energy, Mowatt-\u0026shy;Larssen is now a senior fellow at the Belfer Center focusing on \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu\/publication\/20755\/islam_and_the_bomb.html\u0022\u003Ereducing the threat of nuclear terrorism\u003C\/a\u003E, counterproliferation, increasing domestic security, and understanding \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu\/publication\/19852\/al_qaeda_weapons_of_mass_destruction_threat.html\u0022\u003Eal Qaeda\u2019s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) ambitions\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPrior to his appointment at the Belfer Center, Rolf Mowatt-Larssen served over three years as the Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence at the U.S. Department of Energy, the top intelligence job within the DOE. In that position he led a 600-person organization whose responsibilities included the areas of nuclear terrorism, nuclear proliferation, science and technology, energy security, and counterintelligence. Prior to that, he served for 23 years as a CIA intelligence officer in various domestic and international posts, to include Chief of the Europe Division in the Directorate of Operations, Chief of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Department, Counterterrorist Center, and Deputy Associate Director of Central Intelligence for Military Support.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMowatt-Larssen spoke on a number of topics including emphasizing the need for more scientists and engineers to be involved in security-related work and the importance of being able to convey technical concepts to policy makers. He noted the need to develop analytical, operational, and warfighting methodologies that are applicable to what is happening now (rather than trying to adapt existing frameworks) and the importance of measure and understanding uncertainty in different contexts.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMr. Mowatt-Larssen\u2019s talk was generously sponsored by the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cistp.gatech.edu\/programs\/regional-security-challenges\/endowmentfund.html\u0022\u003EGEN Ray Davis Memorial Endowment Fund.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Tuesday April 5th, Mr. Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Senior Fellow at Harvard University\u0027s Belfer Center, spoke on \u0022WMD Terrorism Threat:  Lessons Learned from Al-Qaeda\u0022 as part of the 2011 CISTP lecture series.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Lessons Learned from Al-Qaeda"}],"uid":"27184","created_gmt":"2011-04-19 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:34","author":"Jene Gladstone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-04-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-04-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"65669":{"id":"65669","type":"image","title":"Mr. Rolf Mowatt-Larssen (Senior Fellow at Harvard)","body":null,"created":"1449176863","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:07:43","changed":"1475894582","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:02","alt":"Mr. Rolf Mowatt-Larssen (Senior Fellow at Harvard)","file":{"fid":"193252","name":"tmo38763.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tmo38763.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tmo38763.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":32443,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tmo38763.jpg?itok=h3dBpkvb"}}},"media_ids":["65669"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cistp.gatech.edu\/","title":"CISTP"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cistp.gatech.edu\/events\/summaries\/Former%20CIA%20WMD%20Chief%20Speaks4.16.pdf","title":"Event Summary"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"12862","name":"Belfer Center"},{"id":"795","name":"CISTP"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"12863","name":"Harvard University"},{"id":"999","name":"IAC"},{"id":"851","name":"INTA"},{"id":"2437","name":"lecture"},{"id":"12864","name":"osal"},{"id":"12481","name":"Rolf Mowatt-Larssen"},{"id":"1264","name":"WMD"},{"id":"12861","name":"WMD Terrorism Threat:  Lessons Learned from Al-Qaeda"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBernard Gourley\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESam Nunn School of International Affairs\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:bernard.gourley@inta.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Bernard Gourley\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-5601\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bernard.gourley@inta.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}