{"id":1310,"date":"2002-09-16T16:53:29","date_gmt":"2002-09-16T16:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comw.org\/pda\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2012-11-04T03:13:33","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T03:13:33","slug":"first-strike-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/first-strike-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"First Strike Guidelines: the case of Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pubPostType\"><a class=\"htmlLink\" href=\"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/0209schneider.html\" target=\"_newtab\" rel=\"noopener\">(HTML version)<\/a> <span class=\"varPubSum\"> by Charles Knight, <em>PDA Briefing Memo #25<\/em>, 16 September 2002 (revised and updated 10 March 2003, postscript added 01 March 2004). Assesses how the case of Iraq measures up within a set of guidelines for preemptive counterproliferation developed by the director of the Air Force Counterproliferation Center. 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