Background
Falkenrath, Richard A. was born in 1969.
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Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy: Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Material (BCSIA Studies in International Security)
( What if the bomb that exploded in Oklahoma City or New ...)
What if the bomb that exploded in Oklahoma City or New York's World Trade Center had used 100 pounds of highly enriched uranium? The destruction would have been far more vast. This danger is not so remote: the recipe for making such a bomb is simple, and soon the ingredients might be easily attained. Thousands of nuclear weapons and hundreds of tons of weapons-grade uranium and plutonium from the weapons complex of the former Soviet Union, poorly guarded and poorly accounted for, could soon leak on to a vast emerging nuclear black market.This study by Graham Allison and three colleagues at Harvard's Center for Science and International Affairs warns that containing the leakage of nuclear materials--and keeping them out of the hands of groups hostile to the United States--is our nation's highest security priority.As the most open society on a shrinking planet, the United States has no reliable defense against smuggled weapons fashioned from black-market materials by a determined state or terrorist group. Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy highlights the fact that the only way to combat the threat is by preventing nuclear leakage in the first place. Its message is both timely and urgent: it outlines the new nuclear danger and details how to reshape U.S. national security policy to deal with these dangers.
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Richard A. Falkenrath
Edit ProfileEducation
Graduate, Occidental College, 1991. Doctor of Philosophy, King's College, 1993.
Career
Postdoctoral research fellow Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John. F. Kennedy School Government Harvard University, 1993—1995, executive director, 1995—1998. Assistant professor public policy Harvard University, 1998—2003.
Founder, co-principal investigator executive session domestic preparedness United States Department Justice. Staff member National Security Council transition team The White House, 2000, director proliferation strategy National Security Council, 2001. Senior director policy and plans, special assistant to President Office Homeland Security, 2001—2003.
Deputy assistant to President, deputy homeland security advisor The White House, 2003—2004. Managing director Civitas Group LLC. Stephen and Barbara Friedman senior fellow Brookings Institute.
Deputy commissioner for counter terrorism New York City Police Department, since 2006.
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Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy: Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Material (BCSIA Studies in International Security)
( What if the bomb that exploded in Oklahoma City or New ...)
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Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy: Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Material (BCSIA Studies in International Security)
Connections
Married Penelope Wilson. 2 children.
