Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic

Nebuchadnezzar II, 51–52

Negroponte, John, 92

Nehru, Jawaharlal, 80

“Neighborhood Girl” (Shreffler), 10–11

Nelson, Bill, 262

Nemesis (goddess), 10–11, 243–44, 279

neoconservatives, 142, 148–49, 198–99, 210–11, 215–16, 231

neoliberalism, 82, 164

Nero, emperor of Rome, 70

Neumann, Michael, 74

New Deal, 272–73

New Republic, 102

Newsweek, 125, 159, 160

New Yorker, 37, 122, 167

New York Journal-American, 176

New York Times, 3, 38, 44, 48, 58, 80, 81, 100, 106, 123, 135, 146, 156, 159, 209, 255, 256, 266, 268

      Magazine, 73

New Zealand, 75, 157

Nicaragua, 3, 19, 94, 103–4, 112–13, 163–65, 248. See also Iran-Contra scandal

Niebuhr, Reinhold, 76

Niger, 100, 148

Nimrud excavations, 52, 48

9/11 Commission (National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States), 98–99, 123

      Report, 137

Nineveh, 52

Nixon, Richard M., 54, 92, 94–96, 104, 106–8, 121, 246–47, 250

noise pollution, 173–74, 195

nongovernmental organizatons (NGOs), 152

Nordstrom, 263

Noriega, Roger, 168

North, Oliver, 112–13

North, Thomas, 67

North Africa, 63, 147–48

North American Treaty Organization (NATO), 5, 141, 171–72, 174

Northcom, 61

Northeast Asia, 143, 157

Northern Alliance, 35–37, 100, 143

North Korea, 94, 145, 199, 205, 207, 210, 221, 223

Northrop Grumman, 212, 225, 257, 264

North Vietnam, 96

nuclear weapons, 7–8, 98–100, 138, 141, 154–56, 202, 206, 208–10, 212–13, 241, 274, 276

Obering, Henry, 225

Observer, 137

Occidental Petroleum Co., 165

Octavian, 66–69

Office of Legal Counsel, 36, 251

Office of National Estimates, 94

Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA), 50

Office of Special Plans, 99–100