The '''Committee on the Present Danger''' (CPD), according to ''PublicEye.org'''s web site (last updated July 1989), was originally "formed in 1950 by top eastern establishment luminaries. It was designed as a 'citizen's lobby' to alert the nation to the Soviet 'present danger,' and the resultant need to adopt the [[NSC-68]] agenda in order to survive. NSC-68 was a top secret [[National Security Council]] document written by [[Paul H. Nitze]] promoting a huge military build-up for the purpose of rolling back communist influence and attaining and maintaining U.S[[Category:Nuclear PR]]The '''Committee on the Present Danger''' (CPD) is a hawkish "advocacy organization" first founded in 1950 and re-formed in 1976 to push for larger defense budgets and arms buildups, to counter the [[Soviet Union]]. In June 2004, ''The Hill'' reported that a third incarnation of CPD was being planned, to address the [[War on terrorism]]. The head of the 2004 CPD, PR pro and former [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] adviser [[Peter Hannaford]], explained, "we saw a parallel” between the Soviet threat and the threat from terrorism. The message that CPD will convey through lobbying, media work and conferences is that “the war