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• NPT goals key topic of UN disarmament meeting in Akita, Japan, UN News, 25 August 2000 -- The importance of reaching the goals of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and their potential effect on the Asia and Pacific region were key topics of discussion at a United Nations-sponsored disarmament meeting held in Akita, Japan this week.
• Navy Area Theater Ballistic Missile Defense program completes second flight test of the SM-2 Block IVA Missile, U.S. Navy Office of Information, 25 August 2000 -- The U.S. Navy moved another step closer to Navy AREA Theater Ballistic Missile Defense (TBMD) capability with the second successful test flight of the Standard Missile 2 (SM-2), Block IVA in two months.
• Army Space Command runs missile defense exercise, Army News Service, 24 August 2000 -- U.S. Army Space Command organized a joint Battle Planning Exercise Aug. 16 for the nation's missile defense system.
• Army Space Command runs missile defense exercise, Army News Service, 24 August 2000 -- U.S. Army Space Command organized a joint Battle Planning Exercise Aug. 16 for the nation's missile defense system, the eighth in a series of exercises sponsored by the U.S. Space Command to fine-tune its battle management command, control and communications system.
• U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE DAILY PRESS BRIEFING, 22 August 2000 -- The President has said he expects to make the decision [on NMD deployment] in the next few weeks.
• CHINA/ US DEFENSE, Voice of America, 16 August 2000 -- Chinese military experts have warned that US missile defense plans could spark a new global arms race and sour Sino US relations.
• DoD News Briefing, 15 August 2000 -- Q: Anything new on NMD?
• BUILDING A DEFENSE PBS Newshour August 9, 2000 - JOHN PIKE: "The reality is that the Iranian leadership has demonstrated profound rationality in looking at the suffering of their own people. The casualties that they were prepared to suffer during the war with Iraq back in the 1980s, only a very small percentage as a percentage of population of those that supposedly rational countries like France, or Britain, or Germany suffered during the First World War."
• Team Airborne Laser Continues Modification Work With Delivery Of New Titanium Belly Skins For 747-400 Freighter Flying Platform, U.S. Department of Defense, 07 August 2000 -- Two 25-foot-long-by-5.5-foot-wide titanium "belly skins" for the first flying platform of the Airborne Laser (ABL) -- a 747-400 Freighter -- have been delivered to the Boeing modification center in Wichita, Kan.
• CEC/Patriot Interoperability Test - Environmental Assessment, Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, 03 August 2000
• DoD News Briefing - NMD, U.S. Department of Defense, 03 August 2000 -- Q: During Secretary Cohen's briefing to the Senate Armed Service Committee, the hearing, he said that there was a necessity to have allied support. And recently the British have hinted a little opposition to that. Does that have any effect on his recommendation at all? Has he said anything about that?
• Radar Test Planned for Ocean City Airport, Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, 03 August 2000 -- From August 4 to August 19, 2000, the Department of Defense's Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) plans to conduct a test of radar capabilities using radars at Wallops Island, VA, the Ocean City, MD airport, and aboard a Navy cruiser at sea.
• Environmental Assessment - CEC/PATRIOT Interoprtability Test, Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, 03 August 2000 - Overview of the test
• DoD News Briefing - NMD Test Failure, U.S. Department of Defense, 01 August 2000 -- Q: Has the SecDef received the report on NMD yet? And when does he plan to report to the president? And when are we going to get a briefing on what happened and why the kill vehicle couldn't separate?