Dozens of senior U.S. statesmen, led by former Secretary of State George Shultz and former Senator Sam Nunn (L)-Ga., are urging the United States to lead the world toward nuclear disarmament through such steps as ratifying tin Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTRT), rendering nuclear forces less ready to launch an short notice, and eliminating tactical nuclear weapons, including U.S. bombs stationed in Europe. To prevent bioterror attacks, I will strengthen U.S. intelligence collection overseas to identify and interdict wouldbe bioterrorists before they strike, assist states to meet their obligations under UN Security Council Resolution 15403 and the Biological Weapons Convention, strengthen cooperation with foreign intelligence and law enforcement agencies, build capacity to mitigate th...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Iranian Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh said January 23 that international concerns about the Tehran government's nuclear activities should be resolved through negotiations and at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) rather than the UN Security Council, which is the preferred U.S. and European approach. He also said that Iran is willing to work with the IAEA during its inspection visit this week in Iran "on the whole range of issues they want discussed. Soltanieh, who is Iran's permanent representative to the IAEA, discussed the current crisis surrounding the Iranian nuclear program during an exclusive interview with Dr. Oliver Meier, international correspondent for Arms Control Today, which is the monthly journal of the Washington-based ...
In September 1994, at a special conference in Geneva ostensibly called to consider the VEREX report, BWC statesparties hammered out a negotiating mandate for a "legally binding instrument," or compliance protocol, to augment the convention.\n The goal of U.S. policy toward the BWC should be to persuade the other states-parties to abandon the existing negotiating mandate and start over with a clean slate. Because of the technical differences between biological and chemical weapons, the CWC verification system, which focuses primarily on routine inspections of declared dual-use industry facilities, is clearly an inappropriate model for the BWC.
The five NPT nuclear-weapon states have not used the year since the Prague speech to send clear signals about a decreasing role for nuclear weapons, and the cases of Iran and North Korea are poisoning the preconference atmosphere. The goals and promises that secured the indefinite extension of the treaty in 1995 have been broken, delayed, or unfulfilled: a fissile material cutoff treaty (FMCT), the CTBT, the disarmament objectives, and the Middle East agreement.1 Similarly, after 2000 all these and many additional agreements were left hanging: the diminishing role of nuclear weapons, their operational status, tactical nuclear weapons, the Conference on Disarmament (CD) process.
Reuters reported April 11 and Arms Control Today confirmed with congressional sources that the declaration process described by Hill would consist of three parts: a declaration provided by North Korea regarding its plutonium program, a U.S. "bill of particulars" detailing Washington's suspicions of a North Korean uranium-enrichment program and Pyongyang's nuclear proliferation to other countries, and a North Korean understanding of the U.S. concerns. Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a press statement April 24 saying that the North Korean assistance to Syria "underscores the need for pursuing the talks," to address North Korea's nuclear program and its proliferation, and called for Congress to waive the legislative restrictions that ...
Current and former U.S. government officials familiar with Bush administration sanctions offer various explanations for the shifting trends, including personnel changes, bureaucratic battles, modified Chinese behavior, and the introduction of Executive Order 13382. [...] in a Sept. 10 briefing on the imposition of additional sanctions under Executive Order 13382, Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman, the principal deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, told reporters that the sanctions "are having an impact" but added that "much of what we know is based on intelligence that we can't really discuss in an open briefing.
Iraq under Saddam, Libya, Syria and Iran. [...] Israel has begun to show signs of a greater willingness to engage, although officials still refrain from expressing open support for the conference.
Congress also approved a fiscal year 2008 defense authorization bill that seeks to expand Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) programs administered by the Defense Department to countries outside of the former Soviet Union.
The Obama administration would not want to appear weak, especially in the lead-up to the 2012 presidential election. [...] the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) faces political constraints in that its leadership has to remain politically neutral while balancing the demands from developing and more technologically advanced states.
The United States and countries in the region - China, japan, and North Korea in particular - follow events in South Korea carefully and try to shape its nuclear development. [...] nuclear technology is of specific concern when it is sold to volatile regions such as the Middle East - South Korea's key export market.
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