Rolf Mowatt-Larssen spent more than two dozen years in intelligence, both in the CIA and U.S. Department of Energy. After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, he led the U.S. government’s efforts to determine whether al Qaeda had WMD capabilities and to prevent a nuclear terrorist attack on the United States. Mowatt-Larssen, a senior fellow at […]
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A.Q. Khan, Nuclear Proliferation and the US Response
Aki Peritz, a former Fellow with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, examines A.Q. Khan’s role in spreading Pakistan’s nuclear weapons technology to some of the most unstable countries in the world and the US response to that proliferation network. I had a lot of fun […]
A Pillar’s Progress
“A Pillar’s Progress: How Development’s History Shapes U.S. Options in the Present”, by David Ekbladh, former research fellow, International Security Program, 2009–2010, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. With the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the “War on Terror” that followed, development aid was shoved back into the spotlight. Many […]
Congress and the Intelligence Community
Confrontation or Collaboration? Congress and the Intelligence Community, by Eric Rosenbach, Faculty Affiliate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Aki J. Peritz Should the CIA have briefed Congress on secret intelligence programs? What is the legal basis for the President’s electronic surveillance program? Is the DNI actually in charge of the Intelligence Community? The […]
Analysis of Transportation Sector Policies
Analysis of Policies to Reduce Oil Consumption and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions from the US Transportation Sector This study examined a number of important transportation sector specific policy options to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and the United States’ dependence on imported oil under economy-wide CO² prices. This cover and this project in general remains one of my favorites. […]
Visiting Nurse Associations of America
The Visiting Nurse Associations of America (VNAA) is a national association that supports, promotes and advocates for community-based, nonprofit home health and hospice providers that care for all, regardless of condition or ability to pay. My work for the VNAA focused on the connections that the non-profit helped to foster throughout VNAA’s many member organizations. […]