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White House point man on arms control leaving for Harvard
President Obama's top adviser for arms control and weapons of mass destruction is leaving the White House to become the executive director of Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the center announced.
Gary Samore has served as Obama's coordinator for arms control and the prevention of weapons of mass destruction proliferation and WMD terrorism for the past four years. As such he led efforts to try to halt Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program and helped negotiate the New START arms control with Russia.
“Gary has been the principal architect of the President’s Prague Agenda on nuclear security, arms control and nonproliferation,” National Security Adviser Tom Donilon said in a statement. “I’m sure he’ll help advance the Belfer Center’s mission to prepare future generations for leadership on these challenging national security issues.”
At the Harvard center, he's expected to “take a leadership role in the strategy, management, and operations of the Center’s research agenda. He will become cochair of the Iran Working Group, participate in the Center’s Managing the Atom Project, and carry out his own research and writing.”
