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• Ballistic missile [r]: A guided missile which, once its engines stop firing, follows a generally parabolic path to its target, defined by momentum, aerodynamic resistance, and gravity ^[e]
• Weapons of mass destruction [r]: Weapons that cause death or injury not primarily through kinetic energy of projectiles or the detonation of conventional explosives, but rather produce large-scale effects greater than possible with the same weight of explosives weapons; by means heat, blast and radiation from nuclear weapon; poisoning by chemical weapon; infectious disease by biological weapons; or acute or chronic radiation syndromes from radiological weapons. ^[e]

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Commissioners

• Donald Rumsfeld [r]: U.S. Secretary of Defense in the George W. Bush Administration (2001-2008); was the oldest secretary and earlier the youngest secretary in the Administration (1975-1977); major policymaker after the 9-11 attack; advisor, Project for the New American Century ^[e]
• Barry Blechman [r]: Co-founder and board member, Henry L. Stimson Center; Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States (Rumsfeld Commission) (1998-99), Defense Policy Board (2002-06), Department of State Advisory Committee on Transformational Diplomacy; Member, Committee on the Present Danger; Founder, DFI International ^[e]
• Lee Butler [r]: General, United States Air Force, who retired in 1994 as the first commander of United States Strategic Command and last commander of Strategic Air Command; now an advocate of arms control and nuclear disarmament ^[e]
• Richard Garwin [r]: Senior Fellow for Science and Technology with the Council on Foreign Relations; board of directors, Federation of American Scientists; IBM Fellow Emeritus service on President's Science Advisory Committee and Defense Science Board (1966-69); R.V. Jones Awardee (1996) for Scientific Intelligence from the United States intelligence community; nuclear physicist involved in thermonuclear weapon design ^[e]
• William Graham [r]: Add brief definition or description
• William Schneider, Jr. [r]: Chairman of the Defense Science Board; president of International Planning Services; Adjunct Fellow, Hudson Institute; board of advisers, American Foreign Policy Council; Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology (1982-1986); member of the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States (Rumsfeld Commission) ^[e]
• Larry Welch [r]: Board of Directors, Henry L. Stimson Center; Board of Directors, former President, Institute for Defense Analyses; member, Defense Policy Board; General, U.S. Air Force, retired; former Chief of Staff of the Air Force and commanding general of the Strategic Air Command; established the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies ^[e]
• Paul Wolfowitz [r]: An American political scientist and policy-level foreign affairs official, of a neoconservative ideology; resident American Enterprise Institute and on International Security Advisory Board; Deputy Secretary of Defense in the George W. Bush Administration; advisor, Project for the New American Century ^[e]
• R. James Woolsey [r]: Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution; Director, Atlantic Council; Member, International Security Advisory Board, United States Department of State; Board of Advisors, Family Security Matters; Former Director of Central Intelligence, Bill Clinton Administration; Advisor, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs; advisory board, American Congress for Truth; board of advisers, American Foreign Policy Council; Board, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments; spouse of Suzanne Woolsey ^[e]

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• SS-1 SCUD [r]: A Soviet-designed short range and inaccurate ballistic missile, a near-copy of the Second World War V-2 missile, that was widely exported, copied, employed as a base for new development, and used in combat by Iraq ^[e]
• Committee on the Present Danger [r]: An interest group that has been formed periodically to draw attention to a threat to the United States ^[e]
• American Foreign Policy Council [r]: A non-profit organization intended to inform world leaders, of or interacting with the United States, of democracy promotion and market economy development; original focus was on the former Soviet Union ^[e]
• Henry L. Stimson Center [r]: A think tank that concentrates on approaches to planning and education for regional stability, counterproliferation, and other specific areas ^[e]
• Defense Policy Board [r]: A group of part-time senior strategic advisers to the U.S. Department of Defense ^[e]
• Claremont Institute [r]: U.S. conservative think tank with special interests in military aspects of space and ballistic missile defense, as well as terrorism and restoring the principles of the Founders of the Constitution; Affiliate, Alliance Defense Fund ^[e]