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- -03-09-03 Iran's Nuclear Program of Great Concern (CNN)
"The Bush administration considers new developments in Iran's nuclear program 'of great concern,' President Bush's spokesman said Monday." 3-03
- 02-11-04 Bush Speaks Against Spread of Weapons (USA Today)
"Saying that terror groups wanted to use weapons of mass destruction as 'weapons of first resort,' President Bush called Wednesday for tougher global action against dangerous regimes and terrorist networks that seek those weapons."
"In a proposal likely to anger nations such as North Korea and Iran, Bush called for preventing countries from acquiring nuclear enrichment and reprocessing technology under the guise of building civilian power facilities."
"Bush also renewed his call, first made before the U.N. General Assembly last fall, for a new Security Council resolution demanding that all U.N. members enact stricter export controls and criminalize weapons proliferation."
"Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Calif., said the president's intentions seemed long on rhetoric and short on action. She criticized him for not stepping up funding for the program to secure Russia's weapons and for withdrawing the United States from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty."
" 'He has consistently underfunded and even cut the nonproliferation programs that would make the United States safer,' Tauscher said." 2-04
- 02-11-04 Pakistan's Nuclear Shame (BBC News - Rashid)
"Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan's best-known nuclear scientist, shocked the nation on Wednesday, when he went on television and confessed to leaking nuclear secrets. He said he took full responsibility for proliferating nuclear weapons to Iran, Libya and North Korea." 2-04
- 05-08-03 India Rejects Pakistan's Offer of No Nukes (CNN News)
"India's prime minister has rejected Pakistan's offer of mutual nuclear disarmament, but told his parliament that 'friendship with Pakistan' was in both nations' best interests." 5-03
- 07-06-03 North Korea Going Nuclear (Washington Times)
"The CIA has revised an earlier intelligence estimate and now believes North Korea has begun reprocessing spent nuclear-fuel rods into plutonium for weapons, U.S. officials said.
Reprocessing the 8,000 stored nuclear fuel rods would be a key indicator that Pyongyang has abandoned past commitments to freeze its nuclear-arms program." 7-03
- 1-10-03 North Korea Withdraws from Nuclear Arms Treaty (CBC News)
"North Korea withdrew from the global nuclear weapons treaty Friday, a treaty it's already violating, but said its nuclear program is peaceful." 1-03
- 1-11-03 Atomic Agency Challenges Bush's Key Claim Against Iraq (International Herald Tribune)
"The key piece of evidence that President George W. Bush has cited as proof that Saddam Hussein has sought to revive his program to make nuclear weapons has been challenged by the International Atomic Energy Agency."
"But Mohamed ElBaradei, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, offered a sharply different assessment in a report to the UN Security Council. ElBaradei said Iraqi officials had claimed that they sought the tubes to make 81-mm rockets. ElBaradei indicated that he thought the Iraqi claim was credible." 1-03
- 10-17-02 North Korea Found to Have Nuclear Weapons Program (Guardian Unlimited)
"U.S. officials publicly reveal discovery of North Korea's nuclear weapons program."
- 10-21-03 Iran Agrees to Stop Nuclear Enrichment Program (Guardian Unlimited)
"Iran agreed Tuesday to suspend uranium enrichment and give inspectors unrestricted access to its nuclear facilities as demanded by the U.N. watchdog agency, a step that could ease the standoff over fears Iran is seeking to build nuclear weapons." 10-03
- 12-11-02 Bush Administration Threatens to Use Nuclear Weapons (Fox News)
"The United States is declaring that it will pull out all the stops and use any means necessary — including nuclear weapons — against Iraq or other hostile countries in response to a chemical or biological attack." 12-02
- 12-28-02 North Korea Expels U.N. Inspectors (Independent - Reeves)
"Washington faced a deepening dilemma last night after North Korea declared it would expel United Nations nuclear non-proliferation monitors." The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is the official name of "North Korea."
"North Korea has two incomplete reactors, with estimated capacities of 50 megawatts (MW) and 200MW, which, according to at least one US estimate, could produce enough plutonium for nearly 30 atomic bombs a year."
"Earlier this week, as part of a series of moves calculated to provoke Washington amid the Iraq crisis, North Korea moved hundreds of fuel rods to a storage room near an atomic research reactor, which it says it will fire up within two months."
- 12-29-03 Libya Years Away from Nuclear Capacity (CBS News)
"The U.N. nuclear chief said Monday that his visits to four once-secret nuclear sites proved that Libya was in the early stages of a weapons program before it dismantled its efforts."
"The inspections follow Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's admission that his country had been seeking to produce weapons of mass destruction and his decision to abandon the program." 12-03
- News on Nuclear Threat of North Korea (CNN)
Provides news stories related to North Korea's nuclear threat. 2-03
Papers
- Bush Developing a Policy of Striking First (Washington Post - Ricks and Loeb)
"The Bush administration is developing a new strategic doctrine that moves away from the Cold War pillars of containment and deterrence toward a policy that supports preemptive attacks against terrorists and hostile states with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons." A first-strike military policy is a massive change over the policy of the past 50 years. 6-02
- Dirty Bombs - Treatment With Potassium Iodide (Washington Post)
"Potassium iodide would be helpful only if a dirty bomb used radioactive iodine instead of other radioactive substances, and then only for people close to the explosion." "Experts say a dirty bomb would probably use a substance other than radioactive iodine." 6-02
- Editorial - Civil Rights and Dirty Bombs (International Herald Tribune)
Argues that terrorism should be fought without suspending the civil rights of Americans. 6-02
- Essay - North Korea's Nuclear Capacity (Time - Karon)
"Two weeks ago, North Korea vindicated Bush in spades, when the country's second most-powerful official told U.S. diplomat James Kelly that Pyongyang has, indeed, been running a secret nuclear weapons program, in violation of a 1994 agreement with the U.S." 12-02
- Essay - North Korea's Nuclear Capacity (YellowTimes.org - Pulcifer)
"The Bush administration has spun North Korea's admission of enriching uranium into an unexpected and ghastly act. For anyone familiar with the United States' dealings with North Korea, it is surprising Pyongyang hasn't made such a move earlier." 12-02
- Essay - North Korea's Nuclear Capacity (YellowTimes.org)
"North Korea's recent admission of enriching uranium for the purpose of creating a nuclear weapon may be an attempt to foil the U.S. strategy of keeping North Korea a public threat in order to facilitate the creation of the Theater Missile Defense (TMD) system." 12-02
- Glossary - Nuclear Energy Safety Glossary (International Atomic Energy Agency)
Provides technical definitions of terms related to nuclear energy and nuclear contamination. (In addition to use of biological and chemical weapons, some terrorists have shown an interest in using conventional bombs to contaminate areas with nuclear radiation.) 12-01
- National Missile Defense - Bush to Deploy Missile Defense System in 2004 (Bloomberg - Cappacio)
"President George W. Bush ordered the Pentagon to begin deploying the first elements of a missile defense system by 2004." Such systems are designed to combat weapons of mass destruction, especially nuclear bombs. 12-02
- National Missile Defense - Global Nuclear Arsenel (BBC News)
Describes how many nuclear warheads each country has and the distance it can deliver them. 7-01
- Nuclear Arms Treaty to Reduce USA and Russian Stockpiles (BBC News)
Russia and the USA will sign a treaty to reduce nuclear stockpiles. "The two leaders hope to cut the number of nuclear warheads on each side from their current levels of between 6,000 and 7,000 to between 1,700 and 2,200 over the next 10 years." 5-02
- Nuclear Risks Grow (Independent - Popham)
"At least as damaging as North Korea's departure [from the non-proliferation ban] have been successive moves by Washington to distance itself from nuclear disarmament."
"In the run-up to the Iraq war, the US President, George Bush, signed National Security Presidential Directive 17, which said: 'The United States will continue to make clear that it reserves the right to respond with overwhelming force – including potentially nuclear weapons....' "
"This assertion, analysts say, undermined...the so-called 'negative security assurances'...not to use nuclear weapons against the non-nuclear weapon states."
"The assurances were considered vital in discouraging states from developing their own nuclear weapons." "More and more states are likely to buy the argument that the only way to be secure in a unipolar world is to go down the nuclear road – 'to pre-empt pre-emption', one analyst said." 4-03
- View - U.S. Increasing Reliance on Nuclear Weapons (NRDC)
"The logic and assumptions underlying the administration's hostility to arms control, and its infatuation with nuclear weapons, deserve vigorous public scrutiny and debate. Not since the resurgence of the Cold War in Ronald Reagan's first term has there been such an emphasis on nuclear weapons in U.S. defense strategy." 6-03
- View - U.S. Not a Nuclear Threat (U.S. Department of State Sokolsky)
"Arms control advocates are sounding the alarm over recent press reports about the Bush administration's new nuclear posture review, which calls for developing nuclear plans and capabilities to deter or defend against nuclear, biological or chemical weapons attacks not only by Russia and China but also by Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Syria and Libya."
"The critics of the nuclear review claim that increasing the number of instances in which the United States might consider using nuclear weapons could well make their use more likely and is liable to stimulate further proliferation of such weapons."
"These arguments do not stand up under scrutiny. In fact, the Bush administration deserves praise for its candor in dealing with the security dilemmas posed by the post-Cold War strategic environment. The United States is right to redefine the requirements of deterrence in order to meet new threats to its security, its forces abroad and its allies." 6-03
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