Peter Huessy

Commentary

President Reagan was the father of the modern push for missile defenses.

Next week, Congress will consider the Defense Authorization bill for the next fiscal year.

In August 2001, a former chief terrorism expert at the Department of State wrote in the New York Times that the Bush Administration was obsessed with terrorism and using it to persuade the American people to build missile defenses.

When the Bush Administration took office, the specter of proliferating nuclear weapons was high on its agenda.

In the December 17, 2003 issue of In The National Interest, Nikolas Gvosdev argues that part of the trick of useful diplomacy is to enhance the number of shareholders in any enterprise, using power to create consensus, which can then act as a force m

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May 25, 2012