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Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)


June 2003 - United States Special Weapons News

  • U.S., EU to Cooperate on Terror, Counterproliferation AFPS 26 Jun 2003 -- U.S. and European Union leaders signed agreements designed to counter the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and to increase cooperation in the global war on terror.
  • Military Study Shows Safety of Smallpox Vaccination Program 26 Jun 2003 -- Dr. William Winkenwerder, Jr., assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, announced yesterday that research DoD conducted over a six-month period, suggests that a large-scale vaccination program can be carried out safely with few serious adverse events.
  • U.S., EU Leaders Pledge Renewed Efforts to Halt Spread of WMD Washington File 25 Jun 2003 -- President Bush, Greek Prime Minister Konstandinos Simitis, president of the European Council, and Romano Prodi, president of the European Commission, issued a joint statement June 25 pledging "to use all means available to avert WMD [weapons of mass destruction] proliferation and the calamities that would follow."
  • Smallpox Vaccine Has "No Serious Side Effects," Military Study Concludes AFPS 25 Jun 2003 -- Mass smallpox vaccinations can be conducted safely with "very low" rates of serious adverse effects, the Defense Department's senior medical official said today.
  • SMALLPOX VACCINATION STUDY VOA 25 Jun 2003 -- A U-S military study has found that a large smallpox vaccination campaign can be carried out safely with few adverse health consequences. The findings offer the first new data about the safety of smallpox vaccination in 35 years.
  • Northrop Grumman Marks Five Years as ICBM Prime Northrop Grumman 23 Jun 2003 -- As Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) marks five years as prime manager of the nation's Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) force, the company is continuing to meet its commitment to ensure the viability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent force through 2020.
  • Rumsfeld Says World Needs to Work Harder to Control Nuclear Weapons AFPS 20 Jun 2003 -- The world's efforts to counter the proliferation of nuclear weapons have not been successful, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said June 19. If they had, he said, the United States would not have had to go to war in Iraq.
  • EDITORIAL: INITIATIVE AGAINST WEAPONS SPREAD VOA 10 Jun 2003 -- The spread of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons poses a serious threat. To help counter this threat, President George W. Bush has announced a Proliferation Security Initiative. Countries working with the U.S., said Mr. Bush, include the other members of the Group of Eight -- Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada, and Russia
  • Bush Extends Emergency Regarding Russian Fissile Material Washington File 10 Jun 2003 -- President Bush has extended the 1994 national emergency with respect to the accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the Russian Federation. Without this action, the emergency would automatically be terminated on its anniversary date, June 21, 2003.
  • E-6B undergoes electromagnetic testing at Pax NAVSEA News Release 04 Jun 2003-- A team of personnel from the VX-20 E-6B test team, the NAVAIR Patuxent River Electromagnetic Effects Branch, and VQ-4 Alert Detachment Patuxent River recently conducted a series of tests on a VQ-4 E-6B Mercury aircraft at the Electromagnetic Effects Branch's High Power Discharge Facility.
  • NAVAIR celebrates first in U.S. military aviation history with E-6 engine milestone NAVSEA News Release 04 Jun 2003-- Members of the NAVAIR E-6B Program Office (PMA-271) and Strategic Communications Wing 1 marked a first in U.S. military aviation history on May 28 when they commemorated an E-6B Mercury engine that surpassed 15,000 hours of flight time without the need for major repair or removal from the wing. Oklahoma City community members, defense industry members from CFMI, Boeing and GE joined Wing and NAVAIR personnel to celebrate the milestone event during the ceremony held at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla.
  • Lockheed Martin Awarded Patent for a Three-Axis Flap Control System for Reentry Vehicles Lockheed Martin 03 Jun 2003 -- The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted Lockheed Martin Corporation a patent for an innovative, three-axis flap control system that promises to revolutionize the steering of rocket-launched, hypersonic and supersonic reentry vehicles/projectiles.
  • Wolfowitz Says U.S. Concerns Over Proliferation Are Global Washington File 03 Jun 2003 -- U.S. concerns about proliferation of nuclear weapons technology are not just limited to North Korea, says Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.
  • G-8 Partnership Makes Progress in Effort to Prevent Spread of WMD Washington File 02 Jun 2003 -- The Group of Eight (G-8) leading industrial democracies announced that it has made significant progress in its effort -- begun last year -- to prevent weapons of mass destruction from falling into the hands of terrorists and state sponsors of terrorism.
  • Russia/U.S.: Bush, Putin Formalize Nuclear Reduction Treaty, Say Ties Remain Strong RFE/L 02 Jun 2003 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush exchanged ratification documents yesterday on a treaty that calls for a two-thirds reduction of active nuclear weapons in their countries by the year 2012.
  • Bush, Putin Complete Ratification of Strategic Arms Treaty Washington File 01 Jun 2003 -- President Bush and Russia's President Vladimir Putin, at a joint press briefing in St. Petersburg June 1 following a 45 minute meeting, said they had just exchanged instruments for the ratification for the Treaty of Moscow. The two had signed the treaty, to reduce deployable nuclear warheads on both sides by about two-thirds by 2012, in May 2002. The U.S. Senate approved the treaty earlier this year, and the Russian Parliament ratified it in May.
  • Weapons Proliferation Concerns All, U.S. Official Says Washington File 01 Jun 2003 -- The possibility of North Korean acquisition of nuclear weapons is of global, not just bilateral, concern, according to a senior Bush administration official speaking on background June 1.
  • U.S./Russia: Bush, Putin Agree To Reduce Arms RFE/L 01 Jun 2003 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush held an informal summit in the Russian city of St. Petersburg today, during which they signed and exchanged ratification documents putting into effect a strategic nuclear weapons reduction treaty.



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