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Obama’s Strategic Defense Vision

By Madison Powers and CQ Guest Columnist
Posted April 9, 2009 at 12:00am

was twofold
“on Cold War threats,
possession of nuclear weapons
fundamental shift
the Cold War era,
Madison Powers is Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. His column appears on Friday in CQ Politics.

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