Roger C. Molander, Arms Control Strategist Who Led Movement on Nuclear Threat, Dies at 71

Roger C. Molander, an arms control strategist who worked at the highest levels of government in the 1970s and later became a prominent grass-roots organizer after he grew convinced that policymakers alone could not avert a nuclear war, died March 25 at the Washington Home hospice in the District. He was 71.

At RAND, Molander was a senior policy researcher whose focus was terrorism and the use of exercises to enable more-effective decisionmaking on homeland security and counterterrorism strategy, policy, and operational issues. He also worked on the challenges presented to critical U.S. infrastructures by major hurricanes and the challenges to the Intelligence Community presented by a possible influenza pandemic. A major component of his work was leading the application of RAND's “Day After…” exercise methodology to these issues.

Read the Obituary at washingtonpost.com.

Topics

• Critical Infrastructure Protection
• Intelligence Community
• Terrorism