September 2000 Space News |
- DoD News Briefing - BMD, U.S. Department of Defense, 28 September 2000 -- The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization will announce later today, if they haven't already, that they have completed two risk reduction flights, which are not intercept flights, but are designed to test various components of the national missile defense system that's currently under development.
- Army accused of diverting system's money, Huntsville Times, 22 September 2000 -- Army officials are diverting money meant for an anti-satellite weapons system to other uses and are intimidating employees who blow the whistle on them, according to a New Hampshire senator.
- Deadlocked, Conference on Disarmament ends 2000 session with no work plan, UN News, 21 September 2000 -- Disagreements over nuclear disarmament and the prevention of an arms race in outer space blocked the Conference on Disarmament from adopting a work programme during its entire 2000 session, which ended today.
- Conference On Disarmament Concludes 2000 Session, UN Press Release, 21 September 2000 -- The Conference on Disarmament, the world's sole multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, today concluded its 2000 session by adopting its annual report to the General Assembly.
- Defense Department Regular Briefing, U.S. Department of Defense, 14 September 2000 -- Q: What are the reasons for the postponement of the THEL test in New Mexico?
- Clinton's No- Go Decision On NMD Hailed By Overseas Media As 'Wise Move', Foreign Media Reaction Reports, 07 September 2000 -- Commentary from around the world on Clinton's decision to delay deployment of NMD.
- DoD News Briefing, U.S. Department of Defense, 07 September 2000 -- Questions on costs and testing of a missile defense system.
- Defense Department Report, Thursday, September 7, USIS Washington File, 07 September 2000 -- The next test of the National Missile Defense (NMD) system, initially scheduled for December, now will probably take place "sometime early next year," Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon told reporters at the Defense Department September 7, after the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) has completed its analysis of the failure of Integrated-Test number five last July.
- U-S OPINION ROUNDUP: PRESIDENT CLINTON DEFERS MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM, Voice of America, 06 September 2000 -- A sampling of U.S. editorial opinion on Clinton's decision to delay deployment of a national missile defense system.
- PENTAGON/MISSILE DEFENSE, Voice of America, 05 September 2000 -- U-S Defense Department officials seem undisturbed by President Bill Clinton's announcement last Friday that he is leaving to his successor a decision on whether to deploy a controversial national missile defense system.
- ABOLISHING NUCLEAR WEAPONS, source, 05 September 2000 -- An article in a major American journal proposes the United States take the lead in bringing about the complete elimination of nuclear weapons before they spread beyond control.
- President Defers Missile Defense System Decision, American Forces Press Service, 01 September 2000 -- President Bill Clinton said that while the United States may eventually need a national missile defense system, he will leave it up to his successor to decide whether or not to proceed with plans to develop that system.
- STATEMENT OF SECRETARY OF DEFENSE WILLIAM S. COHEN, Department of Defense, 01 September 2000 -- The President's choice to defer a deployment decision on a National Missile Defense system to his successor involved many factors. Central for me, as I have stated publicly, is the importance of sustaining a solid national consensus not only on the need for an NMD system but on the scope and structure of such a system...
- GORE-BUSH MISSILE DEFENSE, Voice of America, 01 September 2000 -- Both candidates for president of the United States are responding to President Clinton's announcement that he will leave a final decision on deployment of a missile defense system to his successor.
- CLINTON-MISSILE DEFENSE, Voice of America, 01 September 2000 -- President Clinton has announced he is leaving a decision on whether the United States will deploy a missile defense system to his successor.
- Berger Briefing on Clinton's NMD Decision, THE WHITE HOUSE, Office of the Press Secretary, 01 September 2000 -- U.S. National Security Advisor Samuel R. Berger told reporters at the White House September 1 that the technology for a National Missile Defense "is promising but unproven" and "we have to be cleared-eyed about this."
- Albright Statement on Presidential Decision on NMD, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Office of the Spokesman, 01 September 2000 -- U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says President Clinton's decision not to commit now to deployment of a national missile defense "will give us more time to press ahead on several diplomatic fronts."
- Clinton Defers Missile Defense Decision to Next President, THE WHITE HOUSE, Office of the Press Secretary, 01 September 2000 -- President Clinton announced September 1 his decision to leave to his successor the critical decision on whether to deploy a National Missile Defense (NMD) system to defend all 50 American states against a limited ballistic missile attack.
- NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE, PRESS BRIEFING BY JOE LOCKHART, 01 September 2000 -- Any reaction to Bush's comment on NMD announcement?
- FACT SHEET: National Missile Defense Decision, THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary, 01 September 2000
- NAVSEA's Theater Ballistic Missile Defense Program Complete Successful Test Flights, NAVSEA Public Affairs, 01 September 2000
