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About High Frontier:
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High Frontier is the nation's leading non-government authority on missile defense issues including missile defense, arms control, nuclear weapons, and strategic systems. Through our publications, research, congressional testimony and nationwide network of volunteers and supporters we provide a powerful voice that actively supports the deployment of an effective defense against ballistic missiles.
In 1982, High Frontier's founder- Lt. General Daniel O. Graham- published a report entitled, "High Frontier: A New National Strategy." General Graham's purpose was to seek answers in U.S. technology, especially space technology, to the strategic problems that plague the United States and the world. The foundation of High Frontier concepts was the abandonment of the suicidal and immoral strategy of Mutual Assured Destruction [MAD] for the concept of Assured Survival through the creation of effective defenses against ballistic missiles.On March 23, 1983,President of the United States Ronald Reagan adopted General Graham's recommendations and voiced them to the world in his televised speech, "Defense and National Security." In his speech, President Reagan met the missile threat head on and called on America's community of scientists "to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete." That night President Reagan began a new comprehensive research and development plan that manifested itself as the Strategic Defense Initiative [SDI], sometimes referred to as "Star Wars."
Despite President Reagan's bold initiative, despite the success of SDI in bringing down the Soviet Union, numerous budget cuts have whittled the SDI into the Missile Defense Agency, and America still has no defense against ballistic missiles. President Bush's initiatives hold out some hope, but much effort is being wasted on the land-based systems, which do not provide the most effective defenses, and worse, cost more.
HIGH FRONTIER IS COMMITTED TO ENSURING THE NATION IS DEFENDED AGAINST THE THREAT OF BALLISTIC MISSILES.High Frontier is a 501[c]3 non-profit organization dedicated by our charter to the study, research and education in the scientific, technical, military and strategic problems associated with foreign policy issues with an emphasis on space. High Frontier has always relied on grass roots support to fund our studies and educational efforts- in 1985, 66% of our funding came from individual contributions; today 90% of our funds come from individuals. All donations to High Frontier are 100% tax-deductible. Please visit our contacts page to make a donation to High Frontier.
HIGH FRONTIER STAFF
Founder- Lt. General Daniel O. Graham
Chairman- Ambassador Henry Cooper 
President
Major General J. Milnor RobertsVice-President
Brigadier General Robert C. RichardsonChief Administrator
Bernice CoakleyDirector of Communications
Rob Kenyon
Communications Consultant
Lt. Colonel Stephen J. McCormickController
Mark A. Lundquist
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