Arms Control Today articles from December 2003

Arms Control Today archives from December 2003

The new nuclear proliferation crisis.(Focus)
December 1, 2003... For over five decades, the United States has sought to make the acquisition and development of nuclear weapons more technically challenging and less acceptable. Republican and Democratic leaders alike have worked to restrain unbridled nuclear...

The atomic dilemma.(Special Issue)
December 1, 2003... On December 8, 1953, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave a landmark address to the UN General Assembly in which he pledged the United States' "determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma--to devote its entire heart and mind to...

The nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: history and current problems.(Special Issue)
December 1, 2003... Fifty years ago this month, President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his "Atoms for Peace" address to the UN General Assembly. He proposed to share nuclear materials and information for peaceful purposes with other countries through a new...

North Korea and Iran: test cases for an improved nonproliferation regime?(Special Issue)
December 1, 2003... If Iran and North Korea acquire nuclear arsenals, their weapons will present obvious and direct dangers to the United States, its troops, its allies, and regional and global stability. Yet, the current standoffs with Tehran and Pyongyang also...

Israel, India, and Pakistan: engaging the non-NPT states in the nonproliferation regime.(Special Issue)
December 1, 2003... The problem at the top of the global nonproliferation agenda today, particularly as viewed by the Bush administration, is how to thwart the nuclear weapons ambitions of Iran and North Korea. However, to achieve this goal the administration...

Nuclear-weapon states and the Grand Bargain.(Special Issue)
December 1, 2003... The nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) establishes a balance of obligations undertaken respectively by nuclear-weapon states and non-nuclear-weapon states to ensure nonproliferation and move toward a nuclear weapons-free world. Often...

The enduring effects of Atoms for Peace.(Special Issue)
December 1, 2003... Five decades ago, President Dwight D. Eisenhower presented a bold and imaginative nuclear initiative to the United Nations. Although the "Atoms for Peace" plan was immensely popular and fundamentally altered the way the world treated nuclear...

Iran slapped for clandestine nuclear activities.(News and Negotiations)
December 1, 2003... CLOSING A CHAPTER in its months-long investigation of Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors adopted a resolution Nov. 26 condemning Iran's pursuit of clandestine nuclear...

The IAEA's report on Iran: an analysis.(News and Negotiations)
December 1, 2003... ON NOV. 10, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) issued a report charging Iran with violating its obligations under the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. In particular, the IAEA said that Tehran had been conducting experiments with...

KEDO suspends construction of nuclear reactors.(News and Negotiations)
December 1, 2003... IN THE LATEST move in the ongoing standoff over North Korea's nuclear program, the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Corporation (KEDO) has suspended construction of two light-water nuclear reactors (LWRs) it was charged with providing to...

Intelligence agencies clarify North Korea's nuclear capabilities.(News and Negotiations)
December 1, 2003... AS U.S. DIPLOMATS move closer to restarting talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program, intelligence analyses recently made public shed new light on Pyongyang's nuclear capabilities and political stability. In unclassified...

The proliferation security initiative: an interview with John Bolton.(News and Negotiations)(Interview)
December 1, 2003... ON THE WALL of the reception room outside John Bolton's State Department office hangs a Wall Street Journal profile entitled "Disarming America's Treaties." The accompanying illustration shows Bolton, the undersecretary of state for arms...

Orbital wins competition for initial missile defense deployment booster by default.(News and Negotiations)
December 1, 2003... TWO RECENT ACCIDENTS at a California missile propellant facility have delayed production and testing of a Lockheed Martin Corporation booster being considered for inclusion in the Bush administration's proposed defense system against long-range...

GAO calls for review of missile defense satellite program.(News and Negotiations)
December 1, 2003... THE GENERAL ACCOUNTING Office (GAO) recently recommended that the Pentagon review a missile defense satellite system because of lingering problems that could result in major program cost and schedule overruns. The Air Force just restructured...

Bush sends IAEA legislation to Hill; Pentagon objections overcome.(News and Negotiations)
December 1, 2003... MORE THAN 18 months since submitting a bilateral agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the Senate for approval, the Bush administration has finally completed and delivered the implementing legislation to Congress....

Congress approves Syria sanctions bill.(News and Negotiations)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... CONGRESS HAS SENT a bill to the White House that requires President George W. Bush to sanction Syria unless the country immediately halts development of ballistic missiles, stops producing biological and chemical weapons, ends its alleged...

Congress authorizes new weapons research.(News and Negotiations)
December 1, 2003... CONGRESS HAS GIVEN its stamp of approval to Bush administration proposals calling for expanded research on new and modified nuclear warheads capability. But lawmakers stipulated that weapons designers must obtain prior authorization from...

World leaders rethinking key NPT provision.(News and Negotiations)
December 1, 2003... STUNG BY THE apparent strides of North Korea and Iran toward developing nuclear weapons, U.S. and international policymakers are rethinking Article IV of the 1968 nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). In recent speeches, key officials have...

WMD security draws U.S. Government attention.
December 1, 2003... THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION recently launched several programs to deal with securing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) worldwide, particularly radiological materials that could be combined with conventional explosives to form so-called dirty bombs....

Congress backs Bush request for CTR Programs.(News and Negotiations)
December 1, 2003... BACKING THE BUSH administration's fiscal year 2004 request, Congress last month authorized $450.8 million for the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program to safeguard and secure weapons of mass destruction and their components in the...

U.S., Russia to retrieve reactor fuel.(News and Negotiations)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... U.S. SECRETARY OF Energy Spencer Abraham and Russian atomic energy minister Alexander Rumyantsev issued a joint statement Nov. 7 pledging to cooperate in retrieving Soviet- and Russian-supplied weapons-grade nuclear fuel from 20 research...

Russian withdrawal from Moldova, Georgia lags.(News and Negotiations)
December 1, 2003... MORE THAN A dozen years after the Soviet Union's demise, Moscow continues to wrestle with the need to abandon some of the outposts of its formerly far-flung empire. Russia pledged in November 1999 that it would completely withdraw its...

U.S. plan addresses possible spread of WMD expertise from Iraq.(News Briefs)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... The Department of State is developing programs to address concerns that Iraqi scientists, engineers, and technicians may assist other countries with their weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs in the aftermath of the U.S.-led invasion of...

Political fracas stalls Senate's Iraq investigation.(News Briefs)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's investigation into Iraqi intelligence has screeched to a virtual standstill after a draft Democratic staff memo surfaced a few weeks ago. The memo laid out a strategy for forcing an independent...

Iran's Shahab-4 denial fails to impress U.S.(News Briefs)
December 1, 2003... A reported Nov. 5 Iranian Defense Ministry statement disavowing a program to build a medium-range ballistic missile with an estimated range up to 2,000 kilometers elicited little reaction from the United States and Israel, the two most...

BWC states-parties meeting yields little.(News Briefs)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... States-parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) met in Geneva Nov. 10-14 to discuss the wide variety of national legislation that has been passed related to the convention, but they avoided offering specific recommendations in their...

Russian site completes mustard gas disposal.(News Briefs)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Russian authorities announced Nov. 14 that the Gorny chemical destruction facility completed disposal of the mustard gas stocks held there, Interfax reported Nov. 17. More than 600 tons of the chemical were destroyed at Gorny, which began...

Illegal arms found in Liberia.(News Briefs)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... UN weapons experts in Liberia have revealed a cache of armaments imported into the country during the final days of President Charles Taylor's rule in violation of a UN Security Council arms embargo. The armaments were uncovered Nov. 1...

Joint U.S.-Russian nuclear cities venture launched.(News Briefs)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... The first joint venture between a U.S. firm and a Russian company in a closed nuclear city was officially launched Nov. 5 by U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham and Russian atomic energy minister Alexander Rumyantsev. The project, between...

Letters to the editor.(Readers' Voices)(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2003... To the Editor: In "Bush's Bipolar Disorder and the Looming Failure of Multilateral Talks with North Korea" (October 2003), Peter Hayes rightly points out the Bush administration's "lack of strategic co-herence." Yet, the problem with the...

Letters to the editor.(Readers' Voices)(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2003... To the Editor: With one important exception, the editorial "Course Correction on North Korea?" in the November 2003 issue accurately addresses one of the most important security problems of the new century. The exception rests in the...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
December 1, 2003... In Consolidating Threat Reduction by Harold P. Smith Jr. (November 2003), a copy editor's note on an earlier draft stating "this sentence is internally contradictory" was erroneously left on p. 22 of the final article. In Rumsfeld Reprise?...

Arms control in print.
December 1, 2003... OF SPECIAL INTEREST Bunn, Matthew. Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: A Progress Update. Harvard University & the Nuclear Threat Initiative, October 22, 2003, 17 pp. Medalia, Jonathan. Nuclear Weapon Initiatives: Low-Yield R&D, Advanced...

The Paul C. Warnke conference on the past, present & future of Arms Control.
December 1, 2003... JANUARY 28, 2004 * ICC AUDITORIUM, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY 8:15 AM WELCOME * Daryl Kimball, Executive Director, ACA 8:30 AM ASSESSING THE RECORD OF ARMS CONTROL * CHAIR: John Steinbruner, Chairman, ACA Board of Directors *...