Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic

Barr, Bob, 268

Base Realignment and Closure (BRAG), 149

Base Structure Report, 5–6, 138, 140, 146–47

Basra, 163

Batista, Fulgencio, 19

Bayard Foreign Marketing, 127

Bay of Pigs invasion, 96

BBC, 30

Bearden, Milton, 113, 118

Bell, BurwellB., 173, 221

Bergenstrand, Klas, 131

Berkin, Carol, 15–16

Berkshire Eagle-, 14

Berlin Airlift, 156

Berlin Wall, fall of, 117

Berlusconi, Silvio, 131–32, 134, 154

Berrigan, Frida, 230

Beyond Fear (Schneier), 252

Bhutto, ZulfikarAli, 115

Bilefsky, Dan, 123

Bill of Rights, 176, 254

Bilmes, Linda, 277

bin Laden, Osama, 1, 3, 25, 35, 91, 98–99, 111, 118–20

“Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” (August 6, 2001, memo), 98

Bin Laden Unit, 122

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 153

Bissell, Richard, 96

Black, Gofer, 124

Black, Hugo, 253

black budgets, 115, 229, 230, 264

Blackman, Robert L, 196

black propaganda, 105

Blair, Tony, 46

Blanton, Thomas, 248

“Bloody Niggers” (Graham), 78

blowback, 1–2, 110, 120, 122–23, 278–79

Blowback, 1–2, 278

Blumenthal, Sidney, 255

Blunt, Roy, 261–62

Board of National Estimates (BNE), 96

BoccaPaz, Alfredo, 168

Boeing Corp., 128, 211–13, 222, 225–26, 262

Boers, 75, 87

Bolivia, 94, 108, 164

Bolton, John, 15, 211

bombing, 21, 24–26, 31–33

boost-phase interception, 221–22, 224–26

Boot, Max, 71

Boston Globe, 29, 224