New Zealand, 31, 165
Nicaragua, 11, 17, 34, 75, 128, 192, 193
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 309
Nigeria, 274, 311
Niger uranium claim, 304–5
Nixon, Richard M., 59, 205–6, 223, 236, 265, 284, 295
Nixon Doctrine, 135
Niyazov, Saparmurat, 172, 176
Nobel, Alfred, Robert, and Ludwig, 168
No Child Left Behind Act (2001), 111
nonaligned countries, 258
Noriega, Manuel, 69
North, Oliver, 130
North Africa, 15
Northern Alliance (Afghanistan), 177, 180, 181, 182–83, 229
Northern Command, 121–22
North Korea, 20, 31, 58, 64, 77, 88–95, 202, 288, 290, 310
Northrop Grumman, 57, 63, 135, 240
North Vietnam, 134
Novartis, 271
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (1970), 73, 77, 90, 290–91
Nuclear Posture Review (2002), 290
nuclear war, 33–34, 61
nuclear weapons, 64, 77, 94, 97, 124, 163, 291
Bush II and “low yield” or “mini,” 290–91
China and, 83–84, 87, 88
cost of, 56, 265, 306
Japan and, 199, 201
North Korea and, 94
Philippines and, 212–13
special operations and, 129–30
Oakley, Robert, 178
Obrenovic, Dragan, 75
Occidental Petroleum, 311
Office for Global Communications, 299
Office of Defense Trade Controls, 133
Office of National Estimates, 9–10
Office of Strategic Influence, 298–99
Office of Strategic Services, 10, 204, 218
oil, 26, 137
Africa and, 311
Central Asia and Iraq and, 145–46, 215, 226–28, 233–34
