Highlights
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Henry Cooper, former head of the Pentagon's missile defense organization and a long-standing supporter of Star Wars programs, heads the pro-missile defense group High Frontier and is chairman of Applied Research Associates, a Pentagon contractor that specializes in homeland security technology. He advises the Center for Security Policy, a hawkish advocacy outfit headed by Frank Gaffney, and he is associated with the National Institute for Public Policy, a hard-line think tank that urges new nuclear weapons production and deployment of missile defense programs.
As Chairman of the Missile Defense Study Team sponsored by The Heritage Foundation, Henry Cooper has led the charge to reinvigorate the Star Wars programs. Advocates of missile defense have won one of their battles ever since President George W. Bush deserted the ABM Treaty. (7) (8) (9)
Cooper strongly
supported the administration's decision to attack Iraq, arguing
in October 2001: "The president says we are after the terrorists
and states that harbor them. His 'coalition' strategy gets in the
way of going after them all at once. But they must be on our target
list if we are to rid the world of terrorism. Does anyone believe
that Iraq, for instance, is not in cahoots with bin Laden? Perhaps
Saddam Hussein provided the Anthrax and/or know-how that has shut
down both houses of Congress and killed innocent Americans. And
remember that Saddam said in 1991 he would have attacked American
cities had he the missiles to reach them. Do we doubt him?"
(6)
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Institutional
Affiliations
High Frontier:
Chairman of the Board (1)
National
Institute for Public Policy: Senior Associate (1); Board of
Advisors (4); Participant, U.S. Nuclear Forces and Arms Control
Study (5)
Heritage Foundation: Chairman of the Missile Defense Study Team
Heritage
Foundation: Visiting Fellow (1)
Clemson
University: Instructor (1)
Center
for Security Policy: National Security Advisory Council Member
(3)
Government
Posts/Panels/Commissions
U.S. Department
of Defense, Strategic Defense Initiative Organization: Former
Director (1)
Geneva
Defense and Space Talks: Chief U.S. Negotiator; Ambassador and
Deputy U.S. Negotiator under Reagan (1, 2)
Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency: Former Assistant Director (1)
U.S. Department
of Defense: Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force
(1)
Air Force
Weapons Laboratory (now Phillips Laboratory): Scientific Advisor
(1)
U.S. Air
Force: 1st Lieutenant (2)
Corporate
Connections/Business Interests
Applied
Research Associates: Chairman (1)
Jaycor: Former Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning (1,
2)
R&D
Associates: Deputy Director of Nuclear Weapons Effects Division
(1)
Bell Telephone
Laboratories: Technical Staff Member (1)
Education
New
York University: Ph.D. in mechanical engineering (1)
Clemson
University: B.S., M.S. mechanical engineering (1)
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