Arms Control Today articles from September 2002

Arms Control Today archives from September 2002

The task of disarming Iraq. (Focus).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Despite the overall success of the global nonproliferation regime, a small number of nuclear and non-nuclear states threaten to undermine the norm against the development, possession, and use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The record of...

Disarming Iraq: nonmilitary strategies and options.
September 1, 2002... The uncertainty regarding Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, which has increased since United Nations weapons inspectors left Iraq almost four years ago, appears to be approaching a crisis point. Concerned that Baghdad is rebuilding...

The inevitable failure of inspections in Iraq.
September 1, 2002... The United States is currently in the throes of a public debate over using military force to accomplish regime change in Iraq because of the threat Saddam Hussein could pose with weapons of mass destruction. The risks of a military invasion are...

UN-Iraq talks fail to yield progress on inspections. (News and Negotiations).
September 1, 2002... AS WASHINGTON DEBATED taking military action against Iraq, representatives from the United Nations and Baghdad exchanged views during July and August over the return of weapons inspectors to Iraq but were unable to resolve their differences....

Senate reviews U.S.-Russian nuclear reductions treaty. (News and Negotiations).
September 1, 2002... IN A SERIES of July and August hearings, senators of both parties signaled that they would support ratification of the latest U.S.-Russian nuclear arms accord, even though several questioned the treaty's failure to require the destruction of...

U.S. irked by potential growth in Russian nuclear aid to Iran. (News and Negotiations).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... RUSSIAN PRIME MINISTER Mikhail Kasyanov signed a draft document July 26 that includes plans to build five nuclear reactors in Iran in addition to the reactor currently under construction near the Iranian city of Bushehr, according to U.S. and...

KEDO pours concrete for North Korean nuclear reactor. (News and Negotiations).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... THE KOREAN ENERGY Development Organization (KEDO) held a ceremony August 7 in Kumho, North Korea, to mark the pouring of the concrete foundation for the first light-water reactor (LWR) that the United States agreed to provide North Korea under...

Pentagon opts for sea-based missile defense radar. (News and Negotiations).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... SHELVING EARLIER PENTAGON plans to build an advanced missile defense radar on a remote Alaskan island, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a $31 million contract August 1 to Boeing to begin development of a sea-based X-band radar for...

U.S. sends conflicting signals on North Korea. (News and Negotiations).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... SECRETARY OF STATE Colin Powell briefly met with his North Korean counterpart July 31 in the highest-level exchange between the two countries since the Bush administration took office, but the United States continued to call the North Korean...

ABL flies, but government agency warns sky is not clear. (News and Negotiations).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... AN AIRCRAFT DESIGNED to carry a laser that would shoot down ballistic missiles shortly after their launch made its inaugural test-flight July 18. The flight came just days after the General Accounting Office (GAO) reported that certain...

International operation removes uranium from Serbia. (News and Negotiations).
September 1, 2002... IN AUGUST, THE United States, Russia, and Serbia, with the approval of Yugoslavia, moved enough highly enriched uranium (HEU) to produce two nuclear weapons from the Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences in Belgrade to Russia, where it will be...

China issues missile export controls. (News and Negotiations).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... THE LONG-AWAITED missile export controls that Beijing committed to publishing almost two years ago were released by China's official Xinhua News Agency on August 25. Following months of nonproliferation talks with the United States, China...

U.S.-Israeli policy for exporting Arrow missile undecided. (News and Negotiations).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... TOP U.S. GOVERNMENT officials testified in July that the Bush administration has not yet formulated a policy about the possible export of a joint U.S.-Israeli theater missile defense system, the Arrow, to India or any other country. The...

Chinese nuclear forces to grow, report says. (News and Negotiations).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... REINFORCING RECENT INTELLIGENCE reports on China's strategic weapons development, the Pentagon released a report July 19 indicating that China is upgrading its nuclear forces and will increase the number of ICBMs that could be targeted at the...

Bush signs waiver, freeing threat reduction funding. (News and Negotiations).(Pres George W. Bush)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... PRESIDENT BUSH SIGNED a waiver August 7 that freed up more than $300 million in funding for U.S. efforts to safeguard and dismantle weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet Union. The waiver, however, expires at the end of September,...

New OPCW head appointed. (News and Negotiations).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... ON JULY 25, members of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) chose Rogelio Pfirter, a former Argentinean undersecretary for foreign policy, to head the international body for the next four years. The OPCW, which...

United States stays atop global arms market. (News and Negotiations).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... U.S. WEAPONS DEALS accounted for nearly half the value of all worldwide arms sales agreements and weapons deliveries last year, ranking the United States as the top global arms dealer in each of the past eight years, according to a...

NATO accepts Russian CFE compliance, but wants more. (News and Negotiations).(Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... NATO MEMBERS INFORMED Russia in July meetings that they accept its claims of being in compliance with weapons limits set out in the adapted Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, but they also urged Moscow to fulfill other...

Chinese companies sanctioned for proliferation. (News and Negotiations).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... ON JULY 9, the Bush administration sanctioned nine Chinese entities and an Indian individual for knowingly contributing to the efforts of Iran and possibly Iraq to acquire weapons of mass destruction or advanced conventional weapons. ...

Open Skies flights begin. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... In August, Russia conducted the first observation flights under the Open Skies Treaty since the accord entered into force January 1. Other treaty states-parties, including the United States, are expected to begin their permitted flights, which...

U.S. opens door for arms sales to Afghanistan. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... On July 2, the State Department announced that, for the first time in a decade, U.S. arms companies would be permitted to sell weapons and military equipment to Afghanistan. Under the new policy, U.S. arms manufacturers may make deals with the...

China reportedly tests air-to-air missile. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... In late June, China test-fired Russian-made AA-12 Adder missiles, also known as the R-77, for the first time, according to a July 1 Washington Times article. Acquisition and deployment of these advanced dog-fighting missiles would give Chinese...

CNN tapes generate questions on al Qaeda. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... After obtaining several dozen videotapes from one of its correspondents in Afghanistan, CNN aired footage August 18 that appears to show al Qaeda members administering poison gas to dogs, but analysts disagreed on whether the video demonstrated...

U.S. steps up missile defense marketing abroad. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The Pentagon and U.S. arms companies have increased efforts following the June 13 U.S. withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty to get foreign governments and businesses more involved in U.S. missile defense programs, but their...

Russia opens CW destruction plant. (News Briefs).(chemical weapons)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Russia opened its first chemical weapons destruction plant in Gorny August 21 but does not plan to begin actually destroying weapons at the site until December. Diplomats from Europe, the United States, and the Organization for the...

Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. (Document).
September 1, 2002... Casting doubt on arguments offered by critics of the treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons testing, on July 31 the National Academy of Sciences issued Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. The report challenged...