Hudson Institute

The Hudson Institute was founded by Herman Kahn, who was one of the inspirations of director Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove due to his proposal for “winnable” mass nuclear war in his 1960 book On Thermonuclear War. The institute receives hundreds of thousands of dollars in foreign funding from the Taiwanese government and its China Center is chaired by former CIA director and Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo. The Hudson Institute regularly decorates neoconservative leaders with its Herman Kahn Award with former recipients including Dick Cheney, Rupert Murdoch, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, Mike Pence, Shinzo Abe, and others. The current Hudson Institute CEO and President is John Walters “Drug Czar” who escalated the War on Drugs during President George W Bush’s term.