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Archived News Articles: NMD and Foreign Policy
6/23/2001 from AP:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010623/ts/us_mideast_threat.html
Threat Scrambles US Troops in Mideast
By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
Saturday June 23 1:12 PM ET
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) - The last U.S. Marines on a joint
exercise in Jordan were being pulled out Saturday and
forces elsewhere in the Middle East stayed on a fresh
alert called in response to a terrorist threat against
Americans. ...
In its alert Friday, the State Department did not give
any specifics on a terrorist threat. In Washington, one
official said the threat was against Americans but not
necessarily the U.S. military. Another official said the
intelligence warning suggested that a terrorist attack
was imminent. ...
The Bahrain-based U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet was ordered out
of port Thursday. U.S. forces in Turkey's southern
Incirlik air base were also put on an alert. ...
6/23/2001 from AP and Reuters: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010623/wl/russia_missile_defense_3.html
Putin Pushes ABM Treaty
By JOHN IAMS, Associated Press Writer
Saturday June 23 4:07 PM ET
MOSCOW (AP) - President Vladimir Putin repeated his
threat of a Russian nuclear buildup if the United States
abandons the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, but asserted
that the Kremlin's response would not be aimed at the
United States. ...
Upgrading the Russian nuclear arsenal is just one of
several options, Putin said. ``There are many other
response options and that is just one of them,'' he
said. ...
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010623/ts/arms_russia_dc_2.html
Putin Says Russia Could Add Warheads if ABM Ignored
Saturday June 23 10:47 AM ET
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said again
Saturday that Russia could respond to any U.S. bid to
abandon a key 1972 arms control accord by adding
multiple warheads to its nuclear missiles. ...
Saturday the commander of Russia's land-based rocket
forces, Nikolai Solovtsov, also warned that Moscow would
find a way to counter any U.S. anti-missile system. ``If
the United States proceeds with work in this direction,
Russia and its rocket forces are capable of responding
with a series of measures able to neutralize such a
scheme,'' he told Interfax news agency. ...
6/23/2001 from AP:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010623/ts/powell_interview_5.html
Powell Dismisses Putin Threat
By BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Colin Powell is
brushing aside a warning by Russian President Vladimir
Putin that he will upgrade his country's strategic
nuclear arsenal if the United States deploys a missile
defense system.
Putin has issued the warning on several occasions, and
again on Saturday, but Powell seemed almost dismissive
of the Russian leader's stand when asked about it Friday
in an interview with The Associated Press.
``I am not in charge of Russia but I don't think that's
what they would do,'' Powell said. He said he was
confident that Putin would not try to enhance Russia's
strategic force once he takes into account the cost.
Powell added that Putin also will come to realize that a
U.S. missile defense is not a threat to Russia. ...
6/23/2001 from The Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35751-2001Jun22.html
Firm's Iraq Deals Greater Than Cheney Has Said
Affiliates Had $73 Million in Contracts
By Colum Lynch
Special to The Washington Post
Saturday, June 23, 2001; Page A01
UNITED NATIONS -- During last year's presidential
campaign, Richard B. Cheney acknowledged that the
oil-field supply corporation he headed, Halliburton Co.,
did business with Libya and Iran through foreign
subsidiaries. But he insisted that he had imposed a
"firm policy" against trading with Iraq. "Iraq's
different," he said. According to oil industry
executives and confidential United Nations records,
however, Halliburton held stakes in two firms that
signed contracts to sell more than $73 million in oil
production equipment and spare parts to Iraq while
Cheney was chairman and chief executive officer of the
Dallas-based company. ...
6/23/2001 from The Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34263-2001Jun22.html
China Growing Uneasy About U.S. Relations
Bush's Comments Cited as Catalyst
By John Pomfret, Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, June 23, 2001; Page A01
BEIJING, June 22 -- China's leaders are increasingly
concerned that Washington and Beijing are headed for a
confrontation as China emerges as an economic and
military power in Asia, and the United States ponders
how to deal with its rise, according to a senior Chinese
official, Western diplomats and Chinese policy analysts.
In recent interviews, these officials and analysts
described growing unease in Beijing that shifts in
attitudes in both nations seem to be pointing toward a
showdown. The senior Chinese official, who spoke on
condition of anonymity, said Chinese leaders have become
especially concerned about the outlook for U.S.-China
relations since President Bush took office. Bush has
termed China a "strategic competitor."
The topic dominated a discussion between Chinese
President Jiang Zemin and Singapore's senior minister,
Lee Kuan Yew, during Lee's visit to Suzhou, China, last
week, sources said. It has prompted China to send an
unprecedented number of emissaries to the United States,
most recently Assistant Foreign Minister Zhou Wenzhong,
who was in Washington this week, carrying a message to
senior U.S. officials that the Chinese leadership wants
to head off future conflicts. ...
"If conflict is inevitable, then it will be very
troublesome. People are saying conflict between the
United States and China is inevitable. Chinese are
saying it, Americans are saying it. It's creating a
vicious cycle. It's very destructive." ...
6/25/2001 from Reuters: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010625/wl/mideast_leadall_dc_10.html
Israeli Minister Warns of Bin Laden Threat
By Roger Crabb
Monday June 25 11:49 AM ET
"...Defense Minister Ben-Eliezer told Jewish community
leaders in Jerusalem bin Laden was ``trying very hard to
penetrate into the country through local people and
through people that he wants to send in different ways
to enter Israel to establish an infrastructure here in
this country.
``They also plan to attack American and European
targets.''
U.S. officials said on Friday forces in the Gulf had
been put on Threat Condition Delta, their highest state
of alert, based on a non-specific but credible threat
linked to bin Laden.
An aide to bin Laden on Monday denied that he given an
interview to the Arabic Television Channel MBC during
which threats -- seen as the basis for the U.S. alert --
had been issued.
The London-based channel later stood by its story,
saying bin Laden had been present and, although banned
by his Afghan hosts from speaking out himself, had
listened with apparent approval when his aides ``said a
severe blow would be directed against American and
Israeli interests within two weeks.'' ..."
6/25/2001 from The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/25/politics/25MISS.html
Pentagon Study Casts Doubt on Missile Defense Schedule
By JAMES DAO
June 25, 2001
WASHINGTON, June 24 - An internal Defense Department
study concluded last year that testing on the national
missile defense program was behind schedule and
unrealistic and had suffered too many failures to
justify deploying the system in 2005, a year after the
Bush administration is considering deploying one. ...
6/26/2001 from Reuters: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010626/sc/arms_usa_research_dc_1.html
Pentagon Says Betting on Lasers, Other New Gizmos
By Jim Wolf
Tuesday June 26 10:28 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Defense Department said on
Tuesday it was pouring research dollars into high-energy
lasers, microwave systems and a host of other advanced
gizmos designed to win 21st-century wars more quickly
and decisively than ever. ...
Aldridge divided U.S. needs into three categories:
``hard problems,'' or significant technical challenges
that, if solved, would check a significant threat;
``revolutionary war-fighting concepts,'' and militarily
significant research areas.
``Hard problems'' include developing a remote capability
to detect and identify potentially toxic chemical and
biological agents and to forecast their dispersion
through a battlefield. Another such challenge is coming
up with munitions capable of knocking out deeply buried
targets.
For ``revolutionary war-fighting concepts,'' new
technologies are being worked on for ``fuller dominance
of space.'' Key areas include affordable space
transportation including advanced propulsion and
long-lasting power systems; sensing technologies for
enhanced space surveillance, and protection of U.S.
assets in space. ...
In militarily significant research, the third category,
a priority is the ``generation, storage, use and
projection of electrical and other forms of power
throughout the battle-space,'' Aldridge and Etter said.
He said ``directed-energy'' weapons -- lasers and
high-powered microwave systems -- had the potential to
shoot down ballistic missiles as they were lifting off,
to defeat high-speed anti-ship and anti-aircraft
missiles and to zero in on targets in urban centers
without harming civilians. ...
7/1/2001 from space.com:
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/nuclear_space_010625-1.html
Nuclear Power Poised for Re-Entry into Space
By Robert Roy Britt, Senior Science Writer
posted: 06:00 am ET, 25 June 2001
7/1/2001 from the Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News:
http://starbulletin.com/2001/06/30/news/story1.html
Kauai missile tests return
A new target could be the waters off the island
By Anthony Sommer
BARKING SANDS, Kauai >> STARS, a long dormant missile
program that pitted the military against
environmentalists and native Hawaiians on Kauai in the
early 1990s, is back. ... STARS is one of several
programs that provide targets for the anti-missile
missiles. ... The Navy has two anti-missile missiles
under development. The first of these is being tested at
the Pacific Missile Range on Kauai. The Army has two
others in the works, a beefed-up version of the Patriot
and a new rocket called the Theater High Altitude Air
Defense missile. All of the new defense missiles are
designed for "kinetic kills": hitting a bullet with
another bullet. To test them the military needs target
missiles to shoot at, and that is where STARS comes in.
The STARS missile consists of a surplus Polaris missile
-- the first generation of long-range missiles to be
fired from submarines -- mated to a new Orbus third
stage that can make the rocket mimic a wide variety of
hostile rockets. It has a maximum range of 3,400 miles. ...
7/2/2001 from AP:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010702/wl/russia_france_4.html
Russia Willing to Cut Arsenal
By DEBORAH SEWARD, Associated Press Writer
Monday July 2 12:05 PM ET
MOSCOW (AP) - President Vladimir Putin said Monday that
Russia was willing to cut its nuclear arsenal from 6,000
warheads to under 1,500 as long as the process was
``controlled'' and the 1972 ABM treaty was preserved. ...
7/2/2001 from The Seattle Times Company:
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?
slug=warriors02&date=20010702
Robot 'warriors' may take place of humans
By William McCall
The Associated Press
Nation & World : Monday, July 02, 2001
7/3/2001 from The Weekly Post:
http://www.weeklypost.com/010625/010625b.htm#one
Japan's Foreign Minister Tanaka Makes Inappropriate
Private Remark About Bush
The Weekly Post - June 25 - July 1, 2001
Editorial:
" ... Japan's Foreign Minister Makiko (Tanaka)
reportedly said, "I will definitely oppose the new
missile defense plan proposed by President Bush. It is
beyond my imagination that we need it" ...
During the conversation with her old classmates at the
reception in German Town High School, The Weekly Post
learned that Ms. Tanaka made a remark about George Bush,
"He is totally an asshole" in English. ... "
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