“Multiple Nuclear Power” World Necessitates More Missile Defense

Conn Carroll / June 09, 2009

In yesterday’s Washington Post, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wrote about North Korea’s nuclear program:

More emphasis would need to be given to missile defense. It would be essential to redesign the American deterrent strategy in a world of multiple nuclear powers—a challenge unprecedented in our experience.

The eventual existence of “multiple nuclear powers” has long been a driving force of Heritage Foundation analysis of missile defense. Last March, Heritage fellow Baker Spring summed up the findings of nuclear war games conducted by policy experts in 2004 and 2005: (more…)