Event: National Security Seminar Series – Sep. 12

Dr. Richard Danzig will address “Talking with Terrorists about WMD: Lessons from Interviews with Leaders of the Aum Shinrikyo Cult,” President of CNA’s Institute for Public Research, Vice Admiral Lee Gunn (Ret.), will guest chair.

Dr. Danzig, who served as the 71st Secretary of the Navy from November 1998 to January 2001, and as Under Secretary of the Navy from 1993 to 1997, is a consultant to the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security on terrorism. He is a member of the Defense Policy Board and the President's Intelligence Advisory Board and serves as a Senior Advisor at CNA and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is also the Chairman of the Center for a New American Security's Board of Directors. Dr. Danzig a BA from Reed College, a JD from Yale Law School and Bachelor of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar.