Committee on the Present Danger

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An international but primarily American group that advocates policies to defend Western civilization, the Committee on the Present Danger was formed in 1950, when the danger was Soviet expansionism. It revived in 1976 over Cold War concerns, and recently reactivated against terrorism, stated as militant Islam.