The United States provided Pakistan with Permissive Action Links, or PALs-specialized combination security locks on nuclear weapons that prevent unauthorized detonations by terrorists or rogue leaders.

Now it would include the possible use of nuclear arms against terrorist states or rogue leaders who threaten to use their own nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.

The wizard sat back suddenly, thinking he had hit upon something, thinking that any underground revolt would certainly fall into the domain of a certain rogue mercenary leader.

To the Editor: Thomas L. Friedman (column, July 24) argues against President Bush's missile defense plan, saying that any attack on the United States by any rogue leaders would result in "TAD - Their Assured Destruction."

Are these the actions of a "rogue" leader, as Hitchens calls Nixon?

He was trying to justify why we need missile defense against rogue leaders, who, he claimed, cannot be deterred by the classic doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD), which has kept the peace for 50 years.

In June, a treaty established the first International Criminal Court, a permanent body on call to deal with rogue leaders in a systematic way so that a mastermind of death like the late Pol Pot would not pose a jurisdictional problem if caught.

The notion that rogue leaders are so crazy they cannot be deterred is itself crazy.

She was haunted by the death of her parents until it was later revealed to her she was the secret daughter of Anya and the rogue Blue leader Killian.

Understanding the minds of rogue leaders, he says, is essential to developing policies that can counteract them.