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December

November

• Questions still unanswered on Bush's plans for military, By Chuck Vinch, Stars and Stripes, 09 November 2000 -- George W. Bush has many gaps to fill in his plans for the military as he prepares to assume his duties should he become the 43rd president of the United States. In an election campaign in which defense and foreign policy issues carried a decidedly low profile, Bush offered a number of proposals that on their face seem highly contradictory.
• Gore's plan for military: Stick with the basics, By Chuck Vinch, Stars and Stripes, 09 November 2000 -- Aside from pumping an infusion of cash into the Pentagon, the national security blueprint outlined by Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore can be summed up fairly easily: Stick with the basics that have made America "the world's greatest military force."
• Exploration Program, Voice of America, 08 November 2000 -- The American space agency NASA has announced new plans for exploring Mars. The plans call for six major launches to the red planet. The agency will try to find evidence of water on Mars. It will try to learn the history of rocks on the planet. And it may learn if life has ever existed there.
• U.S. Election: Foreign Policy, Trade And Character In The Final Count, Foreign Media Reaction Reports, 06 November 2000 -- Foreign media commentary on the U.S. elections.
• State Department's Holum on Steps to Keeping Arms Control Relevant, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 01 November 2000 -- Arms control faces some "serious challenges" in the emerging threat environment, but will remain vital to international security and stability, a State Department arms control expert told an audience of security strategists October 24.

  October

• John D. Holum, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, Interview With the Office of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 31 October 2000 -- Questions include such topics as the North Korean missile program, national missile defense, and Iranian chemical weapons.
• Under Secretary Holum Discusses Arms Control Issues, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 30 October 2000 -- Under Secretary of State for International Security and Arms Control John Holum says President Clinton's decision to leave a final decision on deploying a limited National Missile Defense system to the next president has eased international pressures, but has had both positive and negative ramifications overall.
• NASA Press Release on Mars Exploration Strategy, National Aeronautics And Space Administration, 27 October 2000 -- By means of orbiters, landers, rovers and sample return missions, NASA's revamped campaign to explore Mars, announced today, is poised to unravel the secrets of the red planet's past environments, the history of its rocks, the many roles of water and, possibly, evidence of past or present life.
• Gore Advisers Brief on His Foreign Policy, USIS Washington File, 27 October 2000 -- Senior foreign policy advisers to Democratic Presidential contender Al Gore highlighted his experience and foreign policy expertise at an October 24 briefing at the State Department's Foreign Press Center.
• Mars Missions, Voice of America, 26 October 2000 -- U-S space agency officials Thursday unveiled a revised, long-term program to explore Mars, the planet in our solar system thought to be most like Earth.
• Space Shuttle Program Benefits Industry and Health, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 12 October 2000 -- More than 100 documented NASA technologies from the Space Shuttle are now incorporated into the tools you use, the foods you eat, and the biotechnology and medicines used to improve your health.
• Bush/Gore Second Presidential Debate, USIS Washington File, 11 October 2000 -- Excerpts of the second debate between George Bush and Al Gore, focusing on foreign policy issues.
• Cohen Cites Foreign Policy and Defense Challenges, USIS Washington File, 03 October 2000 -- Addressing an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) October 2, Defense Secretary Cohen said the biggest challenges facing future administrations in terms of foreign policy and defense policy will be how to deal with Russia, China, and the threat of weapons of mass destruction from "two dozen countries who either have developed or are in the process of developing" such weapons.
• NASA's future wedded to costly, aging shuttle, Miami Herald, 01 October 2000 -- The nation's only vehicle capable of carrying humans into space relies on 1970s technology, cannot vault them out of Earth orbit and is plagued by staff shortages, mechanical problems and the icy memory of a winter day when seven astronauts died.

  September

• Secretary of Defense Cohen Press Conference - TMD, U.S. Department of Defense, 22 September 2000 -- QUESTION: Are you going to make [Theater Missile Defense] a closed system for only the United States and Japan and possibly Taiwan to participate, or maybe you are going to make it an open system and there is a possibility for such countries as China and Russia to participate, too.
• Ginsberg Says Gore Won't Rush Unproven Missile Defense System, USIS Washington File, 27 September 2000 -- Campaign adviser outlines Democratic foreign policy priorities
• Armitage Says Bush Wants Missile Defense System Swiftly, USIS Washington File, 27 September 2000 -- Campaign adviser outlines Republican foreign policy priorities
• Cohen Stresses Need for National Missile Defense in Context of Arms Control, USIS Washington File, 26 September 2000 -- Defense Secretary William Cohen stressed his continuing support for a National Missile Defense system "in the context of arms control" to a business group in Chicago September 26.
• Big science. Big bucks. Big questions., Christian Science Monitor, 20 September 2000 -- Laser designed to help maintain US nuclear arsenal has run into a string of problems, prompting scrutiny.
• Ambassador Mahley Gives Status Report on BWC Compliance Protocol, Testimony of Ambassador Donald A. Mahley, Special Negotiator for Chemical and Biological Arms Control, Department of State, 19 September 2000 -- The United States still hopes that a satisfactory Protocol can beachieved by the 2001 target date.
• DOD Official on Status of Biological Weapons Convention, Testimony of Dr. Susan Koch, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Threat Reduction Policy, 19 September 2000 -- "...we do not believe that theProtocol being negotiated will be able to provide the kind ofeffective verification that exists in other arms control treaties."
• Energy Sec. Richardson at IAEA Conference Sept. 18, Forty-Fourth Session of The General Conference Of The International Atomic Energy Agency, 18 September 2000 -- The IAEA needs strong andconsistent support from all of its member states.
• Legal Loopholes Help Man Sell the Moon, space.com, 15 September 2000 -- Exploiting what he calls a loophole in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty - which forbids nations, but not individuals, from appropriating the moon and other celestial bodies - a California entrepreneur has quietly sold parcels on the moon to some 300,000 people through his Rio Vista, California company, Lunar Embassy.
• Celestial Lift, ABCNews.com, 14 September 2000 -- NASA considers plans to build an elevator that would extend 22,000 miles to space and would take electromagnetically powered cars about 24 hours to reach geosynchronous orbit
• The NMD Program and the ABM Treaty, Avis T. Bohlen, Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Statement Before the House Committee on Government Reform, 08 September 2000 -- It is this administration's position that we should not moveforward with deployment until we have full confidence that thesystem will work, and until we have made every reasonablediplomatic effort to minimize the cost of deployment, andmaximize the benefit.

  August

• Cohen Issues Statement On National Missile Defense, U.S. Department of Defense, 07 August 2000 -- "I will make no recommendation about the future of the NMD program until I have analyzed their findings. I expect that to happen and to report to the president within the next few weeks. Recent reports that I have made a decision on this matter, preliminary or otherwise, are wrong."

  July

• Cohen briefs Senate on national missile defense, American Forces Press Service, 27 July 2000 -- A limited national missile defense would prevent nuclear blackmail against the United States and could "enhance deterrence and improve stability," Defense Secretary William S. Cohen said July 25.
• Cohen Clarifies National Missile Defense Testimony, U.S. Department of Defense, 27 July 2000 -- Defense secretary declares he "did not make any recommendation to be deferred, delayed, or that we go forward"
• Secretary Cohen Interview - National Missile Defense, "Sunday" program, Nine Television Network, Australia, 16 July 2000 -- Q: Sir, one of the things the Australian government is hoping you'll brief them on is "Star Wars Two," the proposed national missile defense shield. How likely is that to go ahead now?
• Satellite Weakness Studied, Albuquerque Journal, 08 July 2000 -- Kirtland Air Force scientists are studying how vulnerable U.S. and foreign satellites are to lasers.
• Son of Star Wars: America's New Missile Defences Put To Test; Despite Protests From China, Russia, Much of Europe And Canada, The 'NMD' Bandwagon Is Rolling Rapidly Towards Reality, The Independent (London), 07 July 2000 -- The trouble is that it isn't much of a test, that no one knows if the scheme will work and it isn't clear against whom it will be deployed. What is clear is that it is a crucial political event. NMD, a distant relation of President Ronald Reagan's Star Wars project, is one of the main items on the Washington agenda.

  June

• USEC Plant Closure Lowers Costs, Improves Capacity Utilization, Press Release, 21 June 2000 -- The announcement today by USEC Inc. (NYSE: USU) that it will cease uranium enrichment at its Portsmouth production plant in June 2001 is an important step in the Company's ongoing efforts to align its cost of production with lower market prices.
• USEC to Cease Uranium Enrichment at the Portsmouth, Ohio Facility in June 2001, Press Release, 21 June 2000 -- USEC Inc. (NYSE: USU) announced today that it will cease uranium enrichment operations at the Portsmouth plant in Piketon, Ohio, beginning in June 2001.
• Transcript: Interview of Albright on Diane Rehm Show 19 June 2000 -- We are now calling these states "states of concern" because we are concerned about their support for terrorist activity, their development of missiles, their desire to disrupt the international system.
• ROGUE STATES NO LONGER Voice of America 19 June 2000 -- American diplomats are no longer calling countries such as Iran, Libya and North Korea "rogue states". Now, they're called "states of concern."
• U.S. Department of State Daily Press Briefing MONDAY, JUNE 19, 2000 -- The phrase "states of concern" is a more general phrase. What we see now is a certain evolution, different ways in different places. Some places that were described that way have embarked upon more democratic internal life; others have been willing to address some of the issues that are of primary concern to the United States. We have been, for example, in the case of North Korea finding ways to address our serious concerns about nuclear weapons, about missiles, about the overall relationship, including things such as terrorism. I don't think anything has changed on missile defense at this point, and the evaluation of the threat will have to take into account the capabilities that they have developed over time. One of the four criteria the President's going to have to deal with is not based on what term we're using for places, it's based on the fact that there are nations out there who are developing missile capabilities who do not appear to be bound by the traditional strategic stability that exists, for example, between the United States and Russia, because of the network of treaties that are involved.
• Indictments have policymakers' attention JOSH SHEPHERD and RENI WINTER KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS 17 June 2000 - ''It's unavoidably the case that when you see a pattern of criminal activities that you need to review existing management procedures,'' said John Pike, a policy analyst for the Federation of American Scientists.
• Senator Cochran Comments On Charges Regarding Falsified Test Data On The National Missile Defense Program, Office of Senator Thad Cochran,Washington, DC, 09 June 2000 - "On May 11, Mr. Ted Postol, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote to a number of Clinton administration officials claiming to have discovered evidence that the National Missile Defense system now being tested will be easily defeated by simple countermeasures, that the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization's own data proved this, and that BMDO and its contractors conspired to hide this information by tampering with flight test data. Mr. Postol also claimed that BMDO had altered the National Missile Defense flight test program in order to hide the truths he claimed to have discovered...This contention by Mr. Postol is just not true."
• Text: Einhorn's June 7 Speech on Nonproliferation to Asia Society 07 June 2000 -- Asian countries have just as big a stake as the United States in the success of international nonproliferation efforts, says Robert J. Einhorn, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Nonproliferation.

  May

  April

  March

• Videotaped Remarks By The President To Carnegie Nonproliferation Conference, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 16 March 2000 -- "...we will continue to work with Russia on how to amend the treaty to permit limited defenses while keeping its central protections, and we'll continue to seek a START III treaty that will cut our strategic arsenals..."

  February

• Eberhart assumes command of NORAD, space commands North American Aerospace Defense Command/U.S. Space Command Public Affairs 22 Feb 2000 -- Gen. Ralph E. "Ed" Eberhart assumed command of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, United States Space Command and Air Force Space Command, in a ceremony here Feb 22.

  January

• STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. CLINTON, January 27, 2000 -- We must meet this threat by making effective agreements to restrain nuclear and missile programs in North Korea; curbing the flow of lethal technology to Iran; preventing Iraq from threatening its neighbors; increasing our preparedness against chemical and biological attack; protecting our vital computer systems from hackers and criminals; and developing a system to defend against new missile threats -- while working to preserve our ABM missile treaty with Russia. We must do all these things.
• Text: Senator Helms before the UN Security Council USIA 20 January 2000 -- The chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee told members of the United Nations Security Council January 20 that "The American people want the UN to serve the purpose for which it was designed: they want it to help sovereign states coordinate collective action by 'coalitions of the willing."
• Energy Department Proceeds With Implementation Of National Nuclear Security Administration - January 7, 2000 -- The Department of Energy today took two additional steps toward establishment of a new semi-autonomous agency, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
• NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION IMPLEMENTATION PLAN Department of Energy - January 1, 2000