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Obama’s Strategic Defense Vision

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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