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Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)


March 2003 - United States Special Weapons News

  • Wolf Says U.S. Determined to Push Back Nuclear Proliferation Washington File 20 mar 2003 -- The United States is "determined to do what it takes to push back" the efforts of Iraq, Iran and Libya to achieve nuclear weapons capabilities, Assistant Secretary of State for Nonproliferation John Wolf told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee March 19.
  • DoD Experts Testify on Much-Improved Troops' Chem-Bio Defense Gear AFPS 19 Mar 2003 - - American troops deployed overseas for the war against Iraq are much better equipped to deal with possible chemical or biological attacks than their Gulf War predecessors, DoD experts said on Capitol Hill today.
  • Text: Greater Action Needed to Combat Infectious Disease, Report Finds Washington File 19 Mar 2003 -- The U. S. government should be doing more to prepare for outbreaks of infectious diseases, both domestically and internationally, according to a report issued March 18 by the Institute of Medicine (IOM).
  • "Success Hinges on Verifying," by Representative Duncan Hunter Washington File 17 Mar 2003 -- long shadow hangs over the horizon of Krasnoyarsk, a city in central Russia. It is a $10-million plant built to neutralize volatile missile fuel that American taxpayers funded but will never benefit from. It will never be operated because the Russians diverted the fuel to their space program before the plant was even completed. This giant, empty facility is another example of the problems plaguing efforts to control weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet Union.
  • Abraham Warns of "Terrible Threat" from Radiological Weapons Washington File 12 Mar 2003 -- U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham told a Vienna conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency that Radiological Dispersal Devices (RDDs), or "dirty bombs" as they are sometimes called, pose "a terrible threat" that requires "a determined and comprehensive international response."
  • RUSSIA / U-S / NUCLEAR VOA 12 Mar 2003 -- The United States today (Wednesday) signed an agreement with Russia to help close down Russia's last nuclear reactors producing weapons grade plutonium.
  • New chemical warfare concepts debut at Beale ACCNS 11 Mar 2003 -- When Saddam Hussein's administration used chemical weapons against the Iranians and Kurds just before the Gulf War in 1991, more than 5,000 people died.
  • Feinstein Says U.S. Must Not Sanction First Use of Nuclear Arms Washington File 11 Mar 2003 -- The United States should never sanction the first use of nuclear weapons because such an action could serve as a pretext for other nations or terrorist organizations to use such weapons against the United States, says a member of the Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence.
  • IAEA / DIRTY BOMBS VOA 11 Mar 2003 -- The United States has announced a program to help poor countries keep track of radioactive material that could be used by terrorists to build bombs.
  • Text: Energy's Abraham Discusses Future Fuels, Nuclear Safety with EC Washington File 07 Mar 2003 -- U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham and officials of the European Commission met in Brussels March 6 to discuss continued U.S.-EC cooperation in the research and development of clean energy systems and alternative fuels.
  • U.S. Senate Unanimously Approves Moscow Treaty Washington File 07 Mar 2003 -- The U.S. Senate March 6 unanimously approved the Moscow Treaty, which will reduce U.S. and Russian long-range nuclear warheads by two-thirds by the year 2012.
  • RUSSIA-US TREATY VOA 07 Mar 2003 -- Russia has welcomed the Senate's ratification of a Russian-American treaty calling for major reductions in both countries' nuclear-weapons stockpiles.
  • U-S RUSSIA - TREATY VOA 06 Mar 2003 -- The U-S Senate late Thursday unanimously ratified (by a 95-zero vote) a treaty between the United States and Russia to reduce both countries' nuclear weapons stockpiles.
  • Vershbow on Opportunities, Challenges in U.S.-Russian Relations Washington File 06 Mar 2003 -- "U.S.-Russian relations are increasingly guided by common interests, and the scope of our cooperation is expanding in ways that would have been inconceivable ten years ago," U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation Alexander Vershbow said February 27.
  • "Moscow Treaty is Full of Holes," by Senator John Kerry Washington File 05 Mar 2003 -- This column by Senator John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), was published in The Boston Globe March 5: "President Bush claims that his Moscow Treaty "will liquidate the legacy of the Cold War" by eliminating thousands of nuclear arms left over from a bygone era when the United States and Russia faced each other across the nuclear divide. In reality, it does no such thing."
  • Transcript: Rademaker Says Arms Control Remains Viable in the 21st Century Washington File 04 Mar 2003 -- leading U.S. arms control official says arms control remains viable in the 21st century and, as evidence, points to the 2002 U.S.-Russian Moscow Treaty that he says will produce "the largest reduction ever in deployed strategic nuclear warheads."



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