Arms Control Today articles from November 2001

Arms Control Today archives from November 2001

Will Prudence Prevail? (Focus).(antiballistics treaty positions of Russia and the United States)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... This month, American and Russian leaders will try to resolve the decade-long impasse over further strategic nuclear reductions and the United States' national missile defense ambitions. The opportunity for an agreement is close at hand, but...

A Debate Deferred: Missile Defense After the September 11 Attacks.
November 1, 2001... The unanimous Senate vote to approve the defense authorization bill that took place in the wake of the horrific September 11 terrorist attacks may have left many arms control advocates with a number of questions. Has the debate over national...

What If the New Strategic Framework Goes Bad?(nuclear weapons relations between Russia and the United States)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Events since the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington could fundamentally change the U.S.-Russian relationship. A sustained military and diplomatic campaign against terrorism will necessitate a broad international coalition and the...

Filling the Gaps in the Conventional Weapons Convention.(landmines negotiations)
November 1, 2001... The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) regulates conventional arms that pose special risks of causing indiscriminate damage to civilians or unnecessary suffering. Concluded in 1980, the CCW established a general framework to...

U.S. Under Anthrax Attack; Bioterror Source Unknown. (News and Negotiations).
November 1, 2001... AS OF OCTOBER 29, a bioterrorist attack using anthrax has killed three people in the United States, and dozens more have been infected or exposed to the bacterium, many apparently from handling mail contaminated with anthrax spores. ...

Pentagon Puts Off Missile Defense Testing, Citing ABM Treaty. (News and Negotiations).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... SECRETARY OF DEFENSE Donald Rumsfeld announced October 25 that the Pentagon had decided against carrying out October and November missile defense testing activities that he said could be viewed as violating the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM)...

U.S., Russia Still Seeking Common Ground on Missile Defense. (News and Negotiations).
November 1, 2001... AFTER MEETING ON October 21 in Shanghai, President George W. Bush and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin reported progress in their talks on missile defenses and nuclear-force cuts, but the two leaders reached no agreements and remained...

Democrats Say Debate On Missile Defense Not Over. (News and Negotiations).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... ON OCTOBER 1, less than two weeks after the Senate shelved legislation designed to curb the Bush administration's missile defense plans, two senior Democrats said that the debate regarding U.S. missile defenses and possible withdrawal from the...

U.S. Denies Talks With Pakistan on Nuclear Security. (News and Negotiations).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... BUSH ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS have denied claims that the United States has recently held discussions with Pakistan on the security of its nuclear weapons and facilities. Reports of U.S.-Pakistani nuclear security talks surfaced September...

Bush Authorized to Lift Sanctions on Pakistan. (News and Negotiations).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... REWARDING PAKISTAN FOR cooperating with the U.S. campaign against terrorism, President George W. Bush signed a bill on October 27 that grants him the authority to waive for two years prohibitions on major military sales and economic assistance...

CCW Countries Get Ready For Review Conference. (News and Negotiations).(Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... MORE THAN 50 states-parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) met September 24-28 in Geneva for their third and final preparatory meeting for a December 11-21 treaty review conference. The countries identified five issues...

U.S. to Clean Up Soviet-Era Germ Warfare Site in Uzbekistan. (News and Negotiations).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... THE UNITED STATES signed an agreement October 22 with Uzbekistan to clean up a heavily contaminated Soviet-era biological weapons complex on Vozrozhdeniye Island, located in the Aral Sea on the Uzbek-Kazakh border. At a cost of up to $6...

U.S. to Miss Chemical Weapons Convention Deadline. (News and Negotiations).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... FOLLOWING COMPLETION OF an internal review, the Defense Department approved a new schedule September 26 for eliminating the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile that increases cost estimates and misses a Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) deadline...

Ukraine Meets START I Obligations. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Ukraine destroyed its last SS-24 ICBM silo on October 30, making it the third START I party to complete its obligations under the accord. Belarus and Kazakhstan both met their obligations under the agreement in late 1996. The United States...

Russia, Iran Discuss Arms Deal. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... During an October 1-5 visit to Russia, Iranian Defense Minister Admiral Ali Shamkhani signed a military cooperation agreement that will reportedly result in hundreds of millions of dollars of new arms deals between the two countries. ...

U.S., China Make No Progress in Missile Talks. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Despite a warming of relations between Washington and Beijing since the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, recent efforts by the Bush administration to resolve U.S. allegations of Chinese noncompliance with a November 2000...

U.S. Approves Development of Enhanced Anthrax. (News Briefs).(to test anthrax vaccine's potency)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... In mid-October, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved a Defense Intelligence Agency project to develop a genetically modified, more potent form of anthrax to see if it could defeat the anthrax vaccine currently used by the United States....

PAC-3 Ready for Action. (News Briefs).(army missiles by Lockheed Martin Corp.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... On September 26, the Army declared that a "limited number" of Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missiles were available for deployment. The PAC-3, which is designed to destroy short-and medium-range ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and...

2000 UN Register of Conventional Arms. (Factfile).(sales tracking)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Established in January 1992, the UN Register of Conventional Arms calls on countries to voluntarily report each year's imports and exports of battle tanks, armored combat vehicles (ACVs), heavy artillery, combat aircraft, attack helicopters,...