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![Graham Allison, who directs the Belfer Center, moderated a Harvard Kennedy School Forum panel on the future of nuclear weapons. The gist: There is real reason to fear because, given that there are thousands of bombs, global terrorists could exploit a security gap. “All we’re talking about is just one,” said Rolf Mowatt-Larssen (far right), a senior fellow at the Belfer Center who worked for the Central Intelligence Agency for 23 years. “We’ve got to be right all the time [about security]. The terrorists only have to be right once for us to fail.” Other panelists included former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson (left) and Matthew Bunn (center), a co-principal investigator for the Harvard Kennedy School’s Project on Managing the Atom Scholars.](https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/120110_nukes_073_605-400x267.jpg)
