The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.
I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power.
The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the beginning of the 1990s.
George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
