{"id":22435,"date":"2016-04-19T11:21:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T15:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=22435"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:46:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:46:51","slug":"woodward-speaks-at-maine-intelligence-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2016\/04\/19\/woodward-speaks-at-maine-intelligence-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodward Speaks at Maine Intelligence Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22436\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22436\" style=\"width: 319px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/04\/Woodward_resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/04\/Woodward_resized-309x300.jpg\" alt=\"Woodward_resized\" width=\"309\" height=\"300\" class=\"wp-image-22436 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/04\/Woodward_resized-309x300.jpg 309w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/04\/Woodward_resized.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor John Woodward speaks to the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, Maine Chapter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/john-woodward\/\">John D. Woodward, Jr.<\/a><span>, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies,\u00a0<\/span>was the keynote speaker at a\u00a0meeting of the Maine chapter of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) held in Kennebunk, Maine on\u00a0April 16, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Woodward\u00a0briefed the 40 AFIO participants on\u00a0\u201cCountering the Use of Biological Weapons,\u201d a topic he covers in his <em>Intelligence and Homeland Security<\/em> (IR 516) course at Boston University.<\/p>\n<p>A retired Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer who served in the Clandestine Service and the Directorate of Science and Technology, Prof. Woodward\u00a0discussed in detail the biological weapons\u00a0threat, which he defined as the intentional or deliberate use of a pathogen by a human or humans to cause harm.\u00a0 Pathogens consist of three types, bacteria, viruses, and toxins, with bacteria and viruses being the real killers.\u00a0 Toxins, although potent and deadly, are not infectious or contagious hence do not cause nearly as much harm, according to Woodward.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Woodward\u00a0explained that biological weapons\u00a0pose a real threat in terms of the potential for death and harm.\u00a0 He noted that countering biological weapons is uniquely challenging in many ways across many disciplines; it is a classic \u201chard problem.\u201d\u00a0 He contended that countering biological weapons will only get harder largely because of advances in the life sciences and information technologies.\u00a0 In essence, these advances mean more people, like terrorist and other non-state actors, can wreak greater harm with biological weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Woodward\u00a0then discussed possible policy approaches to focus greater attention on intelligence measures the United States and global community can take to prevent or disrupt a biological weapons attack.<\/p>\n<p>Incorporated in 1975, AFIO is a national non-profit educational association for current and former intelligence professionals as well as individuals and organizations with an interest in the U.S. intelligence community.\u00a0 The AFIO Maine Chapter President Michael Severance, a retired Colonel, US Army, invited Prof. Woodward\u00a0to speak and hosted his visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. John Woodward discussed the biological weapons threat and how to counter that threat. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8411],"tags":[9287,9409,9427,1583,8396,8904,8710],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22435"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22441,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22435\/revisions\/22441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}