In 1998, Gordon-Hagerty took a job on the staff of the National Security Council as director for combating terrorism. She was on duty in the White House when the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, occurred. In 2003, she became executive VP and CEO of USEC, which supplied fuel for commercial nuclear power plants. Gordon-Hagerty was said to be a model for Nicole Kidman's character--a woman supervising the search for stolen Russian nuclear weapons--in the 1997 film, The Peacemaker.
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