In the aftermath of 9/11 the Bush administration published the 2002 National Security Strategy. The strategy identified the gravest danger to our Nation as the Òcrossroads of radicalism and technology.Ó By announcing that ÒAmerica will act against such emerging threats before they are fully formed,Ó the strategy brought preemption to the forefront of the national security debate. Three 2003-2004 Harvard National Security Fellows, Commander Joanne Fish, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel McCraw, and Colonel Christopher Reddish, argue that, when the National Security Strategy introduced the strategy of preemption, it simultaneously and unknowingly created a conceptual Ògray zoneÓ by failing to clarify the substantive difference between Òimminent threatsÓ and the Òadapted imminent threatsÓ identified by the Bush administration. The resulting strategic confusion is most problematic when facing the nexus of rogue states, terrorists, and weapons of mass destruction.