How has U.S. counterproliferation policy adapted to the changing threats of the post-9/11 environment?
On August 4, 2009, Ambassador Kenneth Brill addressed a special Policy Forum as part of The Washington Institute's ongoing lecture series with senior U.S. counterterrorism officials sponsored by the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Policy. In his remarks, Ambassador Brill focused on what the United States and its allies can do to prevent weapons of mass destruction from falling into the hands of terrorists willing to use them.
Kenneth Brill is director of the National Counterproliferation Center and is counterproliferation mission manager for the director of national intelligence (DNI). In this capacity, he is principal advisor to the DNI on issues relating to WMD proliferation and delivery. A career foreign service officer, Ambassador Brill served from September 2001 through July 2004 as U.S. representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency and U.S. representative to the Vienna office of the United Nations. He was appointed to his current post in 2005.
