Reagan Doctrine legal barriers prohibiting private organizations and citizens from supporting these resistance movements. Within the Reagan administration, the doctrine was quickly embraced by nearly all of Reagan's top national security and foreign policy officials, including Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, and a series of Reagan National Security advisers including John Poindexter, Frank Carlucci, and Colin Powell. Reagan himself was a vocal proponent of the policy. Seeking to expand Congressional support for the doctrine in the 1985 State of the Union Address in February 1985, Reagan said: "We must not break faith with those who are risking their lives...on
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical & Biological Defense Programs the Secretary of Defense (Atomic Energy) was given control over the Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA), which became the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. In February 1996, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (P.L. 104-106) officially created the office of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear & Chemical & Biological Defense Programs, or ASTD (NCB) to replace that of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Atomic Energy). The Clinton administration declined to nominate an Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear & Chemical & Biological Defense Programs between 1997 and 2001, having determined (as