Editing Committee on the Present Danger

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The '''Committee on the Present Danger''' ('''CPD''') is the name used by a succession of American [[Anti-communism|anti-communist]] [[foreign policy interest group]]s.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bronner |first=Stephen Eric |date=2005 |title=Blood in the sand: imperial fantasies, right-wing ambitions, and the erosion of American democracy |location=Lexington, Ky. |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=0-8131-7168-7 |oclc=65562600}}</ref> Throughout its four iterations—in the 1950s, the 1970s, the 2000s, and 2019—it has influenced foreign policy since the administration of [[Harry S. Truman]].<ref name="soviet_book">{{cite book |last=Christopher I. |first=Xenakis|title=What happened to the Soviet Union?|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gmdyC4wDPqwC&pg=PA111 |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-275-97527-2}}</ref> Its first iteration disbanded as its leading members joined the Dwight Eisenhower administration, leading for it to be reformed in 1976 to counter the Soviet Union during the cold war.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2019-03-26 |title=Steve Bannon helps revive US cold war-era committee to target China |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3003283/cold-war-back-steve-bannon-helps-revive-us-committee-target |access-date=2024-02-04 |website=South China Morning Post |language=en |archive-date=February 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204003543/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3003283/cold-war-back-steve-bannon-helps-revive-us-committee-target |url-status=live }}</ref> This iteration achieved notable success during the [[Presidency of Ronald Reagan|Reagan administration]]. The third iteration was formed by veterans of the [[Cold War (1979–1985)|Cold War]] in 2004 in support of the [[war on terror]].<ref name="TheHill_Kirchick_20040630" /> The fourth iteration, the [[Committee on the Present Danger: China|Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC)]] returned the group to its anti-communist roots with a focus on the threat posed to the United States by the [[China Communist Party]].<ref name=":1" />

==Overview==
The committee first met in 1950, founded by [[Tracy Voorhees]], to promote the plans proposed in [[NSC 68]] by [[Paul Nitze]] and [[Dean Acheson]]. It lobbied the government directly and sought to influence [[public opinion]] through a publicity campaign, notably a weekly radio broadcast on the [[Mutual Broadcasting System]] throughout 1951.<ref name="Peddlers" /> This iteration was effectively disbanded after 1952, following the appointment of Voorhees and others to senior positions in the administration.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wells |first=Samuel F. |date=1979 |title=Sounding the Tocsin: NSC 68 and the Soviet Threat |journal=International Security |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=116–158 |doi=10.2307/2626746 |jstor=2626746 |s2cid=155072379 |issn=0162-2889}}</ref>

It was privately revived in March 1976 to try to influence the [[United States Presidential election, 1976|presidential candidates]] and their advisors.{{citation needed|date=September 2008}} After [[Jimmy Carter]] won the election, CPD went public again and spent the next four years lobbying, particularly against [[détente]] and the [[SALT II]] agreement. Its [[War Hawk|hawkish]] conclusions influenced the [[CIA]]'s future reporting on the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] threat.{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}} This iteration of the CPD provided 33 officials to the [[Presidency of Ronald Reagan|Ronald Reagan administration]], plus Reagan himself.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Shribman |first1=David |last2=Times |first2=Special To the New York |date=November 23, 1981 |title=Group Goes from Exile to Influence |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/23/us/group-goes-from-exile-to-influence.html |access-date=May 1, 2020 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

==History==

=== First CPD (1950s) ===
On December 12, 1950, [[James Bryant Conant|James Conant]], [[Tracy Voorhees]] and [[Vannevar Bush]] announced the creation of the committee on the Present Danger.<ref name="Peddlers">{{Cite book |last=Sanders |first=Jerry |url=https://archive.org/details/peddlersofcrisis0000sand/page/54 |title=Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment |publisher=South End Press |year=1983 |isbn=0896081818 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/peddlersofcrisis0000sand/page/54 54]}}</ref> The group was formed in order to support the Truman Administration's remilitarization plans contained within [[NSC 68]].<ref name="Peddlers" /> The 'present danger' to which the group's title referred was "the aggressive designs of the Soviet Union", the CPD announced.<ref name="Peddlers" />

==== Members of the First CPD ====
* [[James Bryant Conant|James B. Conant]] (chairman)
* [[Tracy Voorhees|Tracy S. Voorhees]] (Vice Chairman)
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* [[Julius Ochs Adler]]
* [[Raymond B. Allen]]
* [[Frank Altschul]]
* [[Dillon Anderson]]
* William Douglas Arant
* [[James Phinney Baxter III|James Phinney Baxter, III]]
* [[Laird Bell]]
* [[Barry Bingham Sr.|Barry Bingham]]
* [[Harry Amos Bullis|Harry A. Bullis]]
* [[Vannevar Bush]]
* [[William L. Clayton]]
* [[Robert Cutler]]
* R. Ammi Cutter
* Mrs. Dwight Davis
* [[Everette Lee DeGolyer|E.L. DeGolyer]]
* [[Harold W. Dodds|Harold Willis Dodds]]
* Charles Dollard
* [[William J. Donovan]]
* Goldthwaite H. Dorr
* [[David Dubinsky]]
* [[Leonard Firestone|Leonard K. Firestone]]
* [[Truman Gibson|Truman K. Gibson Jr.]]
* Miss Meta Glass
* [[Arthur Goldberg|Arthur J. Goldberg]]
* [[Samuel Goldwyn]]
* W. W. Grant
* Edward S. Greenbaum
* [[Paul G. Hoffman]]
* Monte H. Lemann
* William L. Marbury
* [[Stanley Marcus]]
* [[William C. Menninger|Dr. William C. Menninger]]
* [[Frederick Middlebush|Frederick A. Middlebush]]
* [[James Morrill|James L. Morrill]]
* [[Edward R. Murrow]]
* [[John Lord O'Brian]]
* [[Floyd Odlum|Floyd B. Odlum]]
* [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]]
* [[Robert P. Patterson]]
* [[Howard C. Petersen]]
* [[Daniel A. Poling]]
* [[Stanley Rogers Resor|Stanley Resor]]
* [[Samuel Rosenman]]
* [[Theodore Schultz|Theodore W. Schultz]]
* [[Robert E. Sherwood]]
* Edgar W. Smith
* [[Robert Gordon Sproul|Robert G. Sproul]]
* Robert L. Stearns
* [[Edmund A. Walsh|Edmund A. Walsh, S.J.]]
* W. W. Waymack
* [[Henry Wriston|Henry M. Wriston]]
* [[James David Zellerbach|J. D. Zellerbach]]
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=== Second CPD (1970s) ===
On November 11, 1976, the second iteration was announced. The name of this version of the committee was "borrow[ed]" from the 1950s version, and was not a direct successor.<ref name="AlertingAmerica">{{Cite book |last=Kampelman |first=Max M. |title=Alerting America: The Papers of the Committee on the Present Danger |publisher=Pergamon Brassey's |year=1984 |isbn=0080319254 |editor-last=Tyroler, II |editor-first=Charles |pages=xviii}}</ref>

Some of its members lobbied for, and were members of, the 1976 [[Team B]], providing an opposing view to the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s ''Team A''.

Thirty-three officials of the Reagan administration were CPD members, including [[Director of Central Intelligence]] [[William Casey]], [[National Security Advisor (United States)|National Security Advisor]] [[Richard V. Allen]], [[United States Ambassador to the United Nations]] [[Jeane Kirkpatrick]], [[Secretary of the Navy]] [[John Lehman]], [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] [[George Shultz]], and [[United States Assistant Secretary of Defense|Assistant Secretary of Defense]] [[Richard Perle]]. Reagan himself was a member in 1979.

==== Founding members of the second CPD ====
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* [[Theodore Achilles|Achilles, Theodore C.]]
* [[Richard V. Allen|Allen, Richard V.]]
* [[John Moore Allison|Allison, John M.]]
* [[Eugenie Anderson|Anderson, Eugenie]]
* [[Jacob D. Beam|Beam, Jacob D.]]
* [[Saul Bellow|Bellow, Saul]]
* [[Karl Bendetsen|Bendetsen, Karl R.]]
* [[Warren Randolph Burgess|Burgess, W. Randolph]]
* [[John Moors Cabot|Cabot, John M.]]
* [[William J. Casey|Casey, William J]],
* [[Sol Chick Chaikin|Chaikin, Sol C.]]
* [[Ray S. Cline|Cline, Ray S.]]
* [[William Colby|Colby, William E.]]
* [[John Connally|Connally, John B.]]
* [[John T. Connor|Connor, John T.]]
* [[Colgate Darden|Darden, Colgate W. Jr.]]
* [[Arthur Dean (lawyer)|Dean, Arthur H.]]
* [[C. Douglas Dillon|Dillon, C. Douglas]]
* [[S. Harrison Dogole|Dogole, S. Harrison]]
* [[Peter H. Dominick|Dominick, Peter H.]]
* [[Walter C. Dowling|Dowling, Walter]]
* [[Evelyn Dubrow|DuBrow, Evelyn]]
* [[James T. Farrell|Farrell, James T.]]
* [[David Fellman|Fellman, David]]
* [[Henry H. Fowler|Fowler, Henry H.]]
* [[Peter Frelinghuysen Jr.|Frelinghuysen, Peter H. B.]]
* [[Nathan Glazer|Glazer, Nathan]]
* [[Andrew Goodpaster|Goodpaster, Andrew J.]]
* [[J. Peter Grace|Grace, J. Peter]]
* [[Gordon Gray (politician)|Gray, Gordon]]
* [[Oscar Handlin|Handlin, Oscar]]
* [[Rita Hauser|Hauser, Rita E.]]
* [[J. C. Hurewitz|Hurewitz, J. C.]]
* [[Chalmers Johnson|Johnson, Chalmers]]
* [[David C. Jordan|Jordan, David C.]]
* [[Max Kampelman|Kampelman, Max M.]]
* [[Geoffrey Kemp|Kemp, Geoffrey]]
* [[Leon Keyserling|Keyserling, Leon H.]]
* [[Lane Kirkland|Kirkland, Lane]]
* [[Jeane Kirkpatrick|Kirkpatrick, Jeanne J.]]
* [[Foy D. Kohler|Kohler Foy D.]]
* [[Peter F. Krogh|Krogh, Peter]]
* [[Ernest W. Lefever|Lefever, Ernest W.]]
* [[Lyman Lemnitzer|Lemnitzer, Lyman L.]]
* [[Willard Libby|Libby, W. F.]]
* [[Seymour Martin Lipset|Lipset, Seymour Martin]]
* [[Jay Lovestone|Lovestone, Jay]]
* [[Clare Boothe Luce|Luce, Clare Boothe]]
* [[William McChesney Martin|Martin, William McChesney Jr.]]
* [[Edward A. McCabe|McCabe, Edward A.]]
* [[George C. McGhee|McGhee, George C.]]
* [[Robert Evander McNair|McNair, Robert E.]]
* [[Joshua Morse|Morse, Joshua M.]]
* [[Steven Muller|Muller, Steven]]
* [[Robert S. Mulliken|Mulliken, Robert S.]]
* [[Bess Myerson|Myerson, Bess]]
* [[Paul Nitze|Nitze, Paul H.]]
* [[George H. Olmsted|Olmsted, George]]
* [[David Packard|Packard, David]]
* [[Midge Decter|Podhoretz, Midge Dector]]
* [[Norman Podhoretz|Podhoretz, Norman]]
* [[Estelle Ramey|Ramey, Estelle R.]]
* [[Paul Ramsey (ethicist)|Ramsey, Paul]]
* [[Matthew Ridgway|Ridgway, Matthew B.]]
* [[Eugene V. Rostow|Rostow, Eugene V.]]
* [[Dean Rusk|Rusk, Dean]]
* [[Bayard Rustin|Rustin, Bayard]]
* [[Charles E. Saltzman|Saltzman, Charles E.]]
* [[Richard Mellon Scaife|Scaife, Richard M.]]
* [[Richard Schifter|Schifter, Richard]]
* [[Paul Seabury|Seabury, Paul]]
* [[Albert Shanker|Shanker, Albert]]
* [[George Tanham|Tanham, George K.]]
* [[Maxwell D. Taylor|Taylor, Maxwell D.]]
* [[Edward Teller|Teller, Edward]]
* [[Charles Tyroler II|Tyroler, Charles, II.]]
* [[William Van Cleave|Van Cleave, William R.]]
* [[Charls Walker|Walker, Charls E.]]
* [[Eugene Wigner|Wigner, Eugene P.]]
* [[Francis O. Wilcox|Wilcox, Francis O.]]
* [[Bertram Wolfe|Wolfe, Bertram D.]]
* [[Elmo Zumwalt|Zumwalt, Elmo R.]]
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===Third CPD (2004)===
[[File:Committee on the Present Danger (logo).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Logo of the third incarnation of the Committee on the Present Danger]]In June 2004, ''[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]'' reported that a third incarnation of CPD was being planned, to address the [[War on Terrorism]].<ref name="TheHill_Kirchick_20040630">{{cite news|url=http://thehill.com/news/063004/coldwar.aspx|title=Cold warriors return for war on terrorism|author=Kirchick, James|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|date=June 30, 2004|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061219045322/http://www.thehill.com/news/063004/coldwar.aspx|archivedate=December 19, 2006}}</ref> This incarnation of the committee was still active as of 2008. The head of the 2004 CPD, PR pro and former [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] adviser [[Peter D. Hannaford]], explained, "we saw a parallel" between the Soviet threat and the threat from terrorism. The message that CPD will convey through lobbying, media work and conferences is that the war on terror needs to be won, he said.<ref name="TheHill_Kirchick_20040630" />

Members of the 2004 CPD included Vice President for Policy [[Larry Haas]], Senator [[Joseph I. Lieberman]], former CIA director [[R. James Woolsey Jr.]], former National Security Advisor to President Reagan, [[Robert C. McFarlane]], and Reagan administration official and 1976 Committee founder [[Max Kampelman]].<ref name="TheHill_Kirchick_20040630"/> At the July 20, 2004, launching of the 2004 CPD, Lieberman and Senator [[Jon Kyl]] were identified as the honorary co-chairs.<ref name=WashingtonPost_Lieberman_20040719>{{cite news|author=Lieberman, Joe and Jon Kyl|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63067-2004Jul19.html|title=The Present Danger|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=July 20, 2004}}</ref>

===Fourth CPD (2019)===
[[File:Committee on the Present Danger- China.png|alt=Committee on the Present Danger: China|thumb|200x200px|Logo of the Committee on the Present Danger: China]]
The fourth iteration of the Committee on the Present Danger was unveiled on March 25, 2019.<ref name="Swanson">{{Cite news |last=Swanson |first=Ana |date=July 20, 2019 |title=A New Red Scare Is Reshaping Washington |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/20/us/politics/china-red-scare-washington.html |access-date=July 21, 2019 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |archive-date=July 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190720234508/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/20/us/politics/china-red-scare-washington.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Rogin |first1=Josh |date=April 10, 2019 |title=China hawks call on America to fight a new Cold War |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/10/china-hawks-call-america-fight-new-cold-war/ |accessdate=July 12, 2020 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |archive-date=June 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617214429/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/10/china-hawks-call-america-fight-new-cold-war/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The revived CPDC was focused on education and advocacy on a perceived existential and ideological threat posed by Communist China to the United States.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wu |first1=Wendy |date=March 26, 2019 |title=Cold War is back: Bannon helps revive U.S. committee to target 'aggressive totalitarian foe' China |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/26/steve-bannon-china-1238039 |accessdate=July 12, 2020 |newspaper=[[Politico]] |archive-date=July 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712185050/https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/26/steve-bannon-china-1238039 |url-status=live }}</ref> 

The relaunched organization was announced with [[Frank Gaffney]], a former White House official under President [[Ronald Reagan]], playing a key role. Its stated aim is to "educate and inform American citizens and policymakers about the existential threats presented from the People's Republic of China under the misrule of the [[Chinese Communist Party]]".<ref name="nationcpdc">{{cite journal |last=Carden |first=James |date=August 5, 2019 |title=Steve Bannon's Foreign Policy Crusade Against China |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/steve-bannon-foreign-policy-crusade-china/ |url-status=live |journal=The Nation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191205082504/https://www.thenation.com/article/steve-bannon-foreign-policy-crusade-china/ |archive-date=December 5, 2019 |access-date=January 19, 2020}}</ref> Between 2000 and 2023, there were 224 reported instances of Chinese espionage directed at the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Survey of Chinese Espionage in the United States Since 2000 {{!}} Strategic Technologies Program {{!}} CSIS |url=https://www.csis.org/programs/strategic-technologies-program/survey-chinese-espionage-united-states-2000 |access-date=2024-01-21 |website=www.csis.org |language=en}}</ref> The CPDC takes the view that there is "no hope of coexistence with China as long as the Communist Party governs the country".<ref name="diplomatcpdc">{{cite web |last=Skidmore |first=David |date=July 23, 2019 |title=The US Scare Campaign Against China |url=https://thediplomat.com/2019/07/the-us-scare-campaign-against-china/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191014183408/https://thediplomat.com/2019/07/the-us-scare-campaign-against-china/ |archive-date=October 14, 2019 |access-date=January 19, 2020 |publisher=The Diplomat}}</ref> In a statement on the launch of the committee, the [[Population Research Institute (organization)|Population Research Institute]] stated: "The United States is in a new cold war. The Chinese Communist Party poses the greatest threat to both the United States and the world since the fall of the Soviet Union. Then, as now, the threat of a totalitarian regime with an evil ideology – one that is willing to kill 400 million of its own unborn children – must be stopped."<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2019-03-28 |title=Distinguished Team Launches the Committee on the Present Danger: China |url=https://www.pop.org/distinguished-team-launches-the-committee-on-the-present-danger-china/ |access-date=2024-01-27 |website=PRI |language=en-US |archive-date=2024-01-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240127204522/https://www.pop.org/distinguished-team-launches-the-committee-on-the-present-danger-china/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Members====
The Committee on the Present Danger: China lists a variety of members including the former politicians and national security professionals, White House officials, business leaders, and others:<ref name="CPD_Members">{{cite web |title=Members |url=https://presentdangerchina.org/members |access-date=June 9, 2023 |website=Committee on the Present Danger |archive-date=June 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610192610/https://presentdangerchina.org/members/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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* Brian Kennedy, Chairman
* [[Frank Gaffney]], Vice chairman
* [[Greg Autry]]
* [[Steve Bannon]]
* [[Kyle Bass|J. Kyle Bass]]
* [[William Bennett]]
* [[William G. Boykin]]
* José Cardenas
* [[Robert B. Charles|Robert Charles]]
* Henry Cooper
* [[Kenneth E. deGraffenreid|Kenneth DeGraffenreid]]
* [[Paula A. DeSutter|Paula DeSutter]]
* [[Nicholas Eftimiades]]
* Sam Faddis
* James Fanell
* [[Kevin Freeman (businessman)|Kevin Freeman]]
* [[Bob Fu]]
* [[Richard W. Fisher|Richard Fisher]]
* [[Mark Helprin]]
* [[Rosemary Gibson]]
* Sasha Gong
* Chadwick R. Gore
* Lianchao Han
* Peter Huessy
* Bradley Johnson
* Phillip Karber
* [[Steven L. Kwast]]
* Ratko Knezevic
* Xiaoxu Sean Lin
* [[Tidal W. McCoy|Tidal McCoy]]
* Robert Maness
* Richard Manning
* Rod Martin
* Faith McDonnell
* [[Bob McEwen|Robert McEwen]]
* [[Thomas McInerney]]
* John Mills
* [[Steven W. Mosher]]
* Reggie Littlejohn
* [[Jay Lucas]]
* [[Scott Perry]]
* [[Benedict Peters]]
* [[Miles Prentice]]
* [[Suzanne Scholte]]
* [[Arthur Waldron]]
* [[Frank Wolf (politician)|Frank Wolf]]
* [[R. James Woolsey Jr.]]
* [[Yang Jianli]]
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====Criticisms====
The CPDC has been criticized as promoting a revival of [[Red Scare]] politics in the United States, and for the involvement of [[Frank Gaffney]] and activist [[Steve Bannon]].<ref name="Swanson" /><ref name=":0">{{cite news |last=Skidmore |first=David |date=July 23, 2019 |title=The US Scare Campaign Against China: The political calculations behind exaggerating the 'present danger' – from the Cold War to today |url=https://thediplomat.com/2019/07/the-us-scare-campaign-against-china/ |accessdate=December 31, 2020 |newspaper=[[The Diplomat (magazine)|The Diplomat]] |archive-date=October 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191014183408/https://thediplomat.com/2019/07/the-us-scare-campaign-against-china/ |url-status=live }}</ref> David Skidmore, writing for ''[[The Diplomat (magazine)|The Diplomat]]'', described it as the latest instance of "what was once referred to as the 'military-industrial complex'" influencing policy.<ref name=":0" /> [[Charles W. Freeman Jr.]] at the [[Watson Institute]] called the CPDC "a ''[[Who's Who]]'' of contemporary [[Wingnut (politics)|wing-nuts]], very few of whom have any expertise at all about China and most of whom represent ideological causes only peripherally connected to it."<ref name="nationcpdc" /> 

==See also==
* [[Citizens for a Free Kuwait]]
* [[Coalition for a Democratic Majority]]
* [[Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf]]
* [[Committee for the Liberation of Iraq]]
* [[Foreign policy interest group]]
* [[Institute on Religion and Democracy]]
* [[Neoconservatism]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
{{Library resources box}}
* Boies, John, and Nelson A. Pichardo (1993–1994). "The Committee on the Present Danger: A Case for the Importance of Elite Social Movement Organizations to Theories of Social Movements and the State". ''Berkeley Journal of Sociology'' 38: 57–87. {{JSTOR|41035466}}.
* Singh, Robert. [http://www.kropfpolisci.com/obama.foreign.policy.singh.pdf "Neoconservatism in the Age of Obama"], in  Inderjeet Parmar, ed., ''Obama and the World'' (Routledge, 2014). pp.&nbsp;51–62.
* {{Cite book |last=Vaïsse |first=Justin |year=2010 |title=Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement|chapter=Chapter 5: Nuclear Alarm: The Committee on the Present Danger |publisher=Belknap |isbn=978-0-674-06070-8}}
* {{cite book |last=Walker |first=Martin |year=1995 |title=The Cold War: A History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=67jOU3BAeW4C |department=Chapter 11: "The Death of ''Détente'' and the Change of the Western System"; and Chapter 12: "The New Cold War" |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=0-8050-3454-4}}

==External links==
* [https://presentdangerchina.org Committee on the Present Danger: China]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160220161351/http://committeeonthepresentdanger.org/index.php?option=com_cpdfront&Itemid=90 CPD Home page (Third CPD)]
* [http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6w1038fh/ The Committee on the Present Danger Papers at the Hoover Institution]

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