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An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
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A Standard Missile Three (SM-3) is launched from the guided missile cruiser USS Shiloh during a joint Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Navy ballistic missile flight test June 22, 2006 in the Pacific Ocean. (Chris Bishop/U.S. Navy via Getty Images)
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US navy warship, forward-deployed Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Chosin (CG 65), docks at the Sydney Harbour in front of the Harbour Bridge on October 4, 2013. (SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (C) speaks as President Barack Obama (L) and Vice President Joe Biden look on during a press conference announcing Hagel's resignation, November 24, 2014. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Secretary of State John Kerry delivers a statement in Vienna on the status of negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, November 24, 2014. (JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)
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A member of Russia's delegation looks at a monitor showing the speech of US President Barack Obama during the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague on March 25, 2014. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
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Experts
Douglas J. Feith
Senior Fellow
Tsiporah Fried
Visiting Senior Fellow
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Jeremy Hunt
Media Fellow
Komei Isozaki
Japan Chair Fellow
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr.
Senior Fellow
William Luti
Adjunct Fellow
Aaron MacLean
Senior Fellow
Satoru Nagao
Fellow (Nonresident)
Aparna Pande
Research Fellow, India and South Asia
Dan Patt
Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
James J. Przystup
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Joel Rayburn
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Iku Tsujihiro
Research Associate
Timothy A. Walton
Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
