On
June 26, 2000, Frances Fitzgerald led a timely discussion of her new book exploring
the relationship between missile defense and the American pysche. The central
thesis of her exhaustive study is that "Our national discourse about foreign
and defense policy is not about reality--or the best intelligence estimates
about it--but instead a matter of domestic politics, history, and mythology."
Transcript
of Event Additional Resources: "Assessing
the Assessment: The 1999 National Intelligence Assessment of the Ballistic Missile
Threat" by Joseph Cirincione, Nonproliferation Review, Spring
2000
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
