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A key question is whether global intelligence and law enforcement communities are tracking nuclear smuggling well enough
Rolf Mowatt-Larsson, currently a senior fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center, served more than three years as director of intelligence and counter-intelligence at the U.S. Department of Energy and for 23 years as a Central Intelligence Agency officer in various posts.
He delivered a presentation about preventing nuclear terrorism at the three-day "Reporting on International Security and Terrorism" seminar in Istanbul hosted by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Discussions are hosted by international security experts and attended by 25 journalists from around the world.
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