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Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)


April 2003 - United States Special Weapons News

  • Iraq Showed Limits of Nonproliferation Regime, Armitage Says Washington File 30 Apr 2003 -- The example of Iraq under Saddam Hussein demonstrates that the current international nonproliferation "architecture is showing some signs of age," says Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.
  • Abraham Calls International Cooperation Vital for Energy Security Washington File 29 Apr 2003 -- U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham says that international collaboration is "critical" for addressing energy security challenges in the 21st century.
  • U.S. Urges Serious Consequences For Non-Proliferation Treaty Violators Washington File 28 Apr 2003 -- A leading U.S. government nuclear nonproliferation official urged "serious consequences for those who violate their NPT commitments" and described Iran's nuclear program as a "fundamental challenge" at an international conference in Geneva April 28.
  • U-S / N-P-T VOA 28 Apr 2003 -- The United States says that North Korea, Iran, and several other countries have cheated on their obligations under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
  • Brooks Outlines Measures to Combat Future WMD Proliferation Washington File 25 Apr 2003 -- A top U.S. Department of Energy official says the threat of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) must be addressed through measures that focus on counter-proliferation, strengthened non-proliferation, and minimizing the effects of WMD use.
  • Bush Says Proliferation Controls Must Be Strengthened Washington File 25 Apr 2003 -- The world must focus on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and on strengthening international controls of it, President Bush says.
  • FIRST JOINT PROGRAM EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DEFENSE FORMED 25 Apr 2003 -- The Department of Defense today announced the formation of the first ever Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD). This DoD initiative will focus on the protection of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines against the use of battlefield chemical and biological weapons.
  • AVOIDING NUCLEAR ARMAGEDDON VOA 21 Apr 2003 -- Weapons of mass destruction pose a greater threat today than ever before. Though we have had the capacity to destroy ourselves since the dawn of the nuclear age, what makes today different is the availability of such weapons to rogue states and terrorists.
  • America's Secret City: Oak Ridge, Tennessee VOA 17 Apr 2003 -- Imagine taking a job without being told what task you would perform or even what city you would work in. As World War Two raged in the early 1940s, 20-old Joanne Gailar took just such a job in a city without a name. Not until the war's end would Ms. Gailar discover that she had helped to create the world's first atomic bomb.
  • Nuclear forces transform to meet requirements AFPN 09 Apr 2003 -- The Air Force is modernizing its strategic systems even as the nation reduces its nuclear stockpile, the director of Air Force nuclear operations said April 8.
  • Cheney Says U.S. Will Break Alliance of Terrorists, Rogue States Washington File 09 Apr 2003 -- The alliance between terrorist networks seeking weapons of mass destruction and rogue states that have such weapons constitutes "the gravest current threat" to U.S. security, and therefore "a vital element" in America's antiterrorism strategy must be to break the alliance between these groups, Vice President Dick Cheney said April 9.
  • START Aggregate Numbers of Strategic Offensive Arms US Dept. of State 01 Apr 2003 -- As of January 31, 2003, as compiled from individual data submissions of the Parties



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