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==Other related topics== | ==Other related topics== | ||
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Parent topics
- Think tank [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. Department of Defense [r]: one of more than a dozen U.S. executive-managed government agencies; this one administers the military forces of the United States, and their supporting civil servants. [e]
Subtopics
World Security Institute
- Bruce Blair [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Andrew Portocarrero [r]: Add brief definition or description
Staff
- Philip Coyle [r]: Nominee for Associate Director for National Security and International Affairs, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Senior Adviser to the Center for Defense Information; previously Assistant Secretary of Defense and Director, Operational Test and Evaluation; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for military programs; deputy associate director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [e]
- Winslow Wheeler [r]: Add brief definition or description
Areas of focus
{{r|Arms trade {{r|Children and Armed Conflict
- Ballistic missile defense [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cruise missile defense [r]: A set of techniques for detecting, tracking, and neutralizing cruise missiles and their launching platforms. The techniques involved include sensors, and both kinetic and nonkinetic mechanisms for disrupting the missiles and their launchers. [e]
- Nonproliferation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nuclear weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Conventional weapons [r]: Broadly, weapons that are not weapons of mass destruction; usually includes precision guided munitions and directed energy weaponss but these are sometimes excepted [e]
- Small arms [r]: A firearm, for sporting or military use, intended to be carried and operated by a single person [e]
- Military uses of space [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Terrorism [r]: An act, with targets including civilians or civilian infrastructure, intended to create an atmosphere of fear in order to obtain a political objective. [e]