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• Policy Statement on Ballistic Missile Defense

  September 17, 2004 

  
  
• Announcing Missilethreat.com

  March 23, 2004 :: Thomas Karako

  On the twenty-first anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative speech, the Claremont Institute is pleased to announce a revision of our website devoted to missile defense, missilethreat.com
  
• Our Founding Principles and Ballistic Missile Defense

  March 10, 2004 :: John Grant

  Claremont Institute Fellow John Grant reminds us why our founding principles require us to defend against ballistic missile attack.
  
• Understanding the Need for a National Missile Defense After 9/11

  January 3, 2003 :: Brian T. Kennedy

  Brian Kennedy considers how superpower politics could have been behind the attacks of 9/11, and why missile defense remains as important as ever.
  
• The Decision to Deploy

  December 18, 2002 :: Thomas Karako

  Tom Karako on President Bush’s 2002 announcement of the decision to deploy missile defenses by 2004.
  
• In Memoriam: An Unsung Hero of the Cold War: William T. Lee

  November 4, 2002 

  William T. Lee, former Senior Intelligence Officer during the Cold War and tireless advocate of national missile defense, has died. In addition to serving his country in intelligence, Mr. Lee wrote six books and numerous articles, notably on the ballistic missile defenses of the Soviet Union and Russia. The Center for Security Policy has posted this tribute.
  
• The ABM Treaty Is Gone, What Now?

  June 15, 2002 :: Brian T. Kennedy

  Claremont Institute President Brian Kennedy explains what must be done if missile defense is to become a reality for post-ABM Treaty national defense.
  
• Getting Serious About Nukes

  April 5, 2002 :: Mark Clark

  Institute fellow Mark T. Clark comments on the media reaction to the Defense Department’s new thinking on nuclear weapons and the war on terrorism.
  
• Protecting Our Nation: The Urgent Need for Ballistic Missile Defense

  January 1, 2002 :: Brian T. Kennedy

  In this speech, which appeared in Vital Speeches of the Day, Brian Kennedy spoke on changes in the urgent need for a ballistic missle defense system since September 11th.
  
• Eastman: President Bush’s Christmas Present

  December 3, 2001 :: John C. Eastman

  Director of the Claremont Institute Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence and Professor of Law at Chapman University, John Eastman, on President Bush’s announcement that the United States would be withdrawing from the ABM Treaty.
  
• America is Worth Defending

  July 23, 2001 :: Brian T. Kennedy

  A good national missile defense system is necessary, and it is currently within our capabilities—so why do the arguments against it remain? Thomas Krannawitter and Brian Kennedy write on the series of arguments given against building a national missile defense system.
  
• Defending the West: Current Debate over Ballistic Missile Defense

  June 1, 2001 :: Brian T. Kennedy

  
  
• The Way to Missile Defense

  May 5, 2001 :: Angelo M. Codevilla

  President Bush says the 1972 ABM Treaty has outlived its usefulness. The question now is whether the administration will officially withdraw from the treaty. That’s the next great step toward a national missile defense, writes senior fellow Angelo Codevilla.
  
• Missile Defense and the Future of American Power

  August 1, 2000 :: Mackubin Thomas Owens

  
  
• Missile Defense: the Hard Way

  July 26, 2000 :: Angelo M. Codevilla

  The Clinton Administration intends to build a national defense that puts the ideology of the ABM Treaty ahead of saving the lives of Americans, writes senior fellow Angelo Codevilla.
  
• Why Nuclear War is Possible: The Common Sense Case for a National Missile Defense

  July 1, 1999 :: Brian T. Kennedy, Mark Clark

  
  
• Build Missile Defense Now

  June 1, 1999 :: Steven F. Hayward

  
  
• Issue in Missile Defense in Asia

  April 12, 1999 :: Gregory H. Canavan

  
  
• Clinton Administration’s Forked-Tongued Defense Initiative

  March 17, 1999 :: Brian T. Kennedy

  President Clinton has agreed reluctantly not to veto the National Defense Act of 1999, but the White House is working behind the scenes to block missile defense for at least a decade.
  
• Boxer, Fong, and the Defender Gap

  October 29, 1998 :: Brian T. Kennedy

  Recently, a controversy has emerged between Matt Fong and Barbara Boxer which goes to one of the nation’s and the Senate’s chief concerns—national security.
  
• Expand Technology, Redeploy Missiles

  August 14, 1998 

  A missile defense crisis is developing today, and the strategically important state of Alaska is key to its resolution.
  
• Morality and Pragmatism in U.S. Foreign Policy

  July 1, 1998 

  What did President Kennedy have that Clinton doesn’t? A global view, according to Distinguished Fellow Bruce Herschensohn in this transcript of his President’s Club remarks.
  
• Missile Defense: Why Pay for Pretense?

  May 11, 1998 :: Angelo M. Codevilla

  This year, like most other years for the past generation, the U.S. government will spend more than $3 billion in the name of defense against ballistic missiles. Since 1983, we have spent some $46 billion. And this year, exactly like every other year, this money will buy not a single solitary piece of equipment that might possibly be used to keep even one foreign missile from landing on the American people.
  
• U.S. Should Opt Out of ‘72 Missile Pact

  April 8, 1998 

  Fifteen years ago, President Reagan gave a speech to the nation in which he asked, “Wouldn’t it be better to save lives than to avenge them?” The question remains unsatisfactorily answered, so long as the ABM Treaty remains in place.
  
• The Defense of the West

  March 28, 1998 

  The program from “The Defense of the West,” a major conference on missile defense held at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California.
  
• Missile Defense: Now More Than Ever

  October 10, 1997 :: Brian T. Kennedy

  The end of the Cold War hasn’t decreased the risks of nuclear attack. In fact, changes inside Russia show that the United States needs a ballistic missile defense now more than ever.
  
• Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodies?”: The Quadrennial Defense Review Tries to be All Things for All People

  January 1, 1997 

  Patrick Garrity writes on the Quadrennial Defense Review, and its shortcomings.