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Archived News Articles: NMD and Foreign Policy
7/22/2001 from The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/22/politics/22SPAC.html
Cast of Star Wars Makes Comeback in Bush Plan
By JAMES GLANZ
July 22, 2001
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., July 18 - Twenty years after President
Ronald Reagan created an international furor by
proposing to place weapons in space, the Pentagon has
put nearly every major element of the original program
back in the center of its plans as part of a national
missile shield. ...
Along with intensified work on the ground-based system,
the Pentagon's new plan calls for the accelerated
development of chemical lasers that would fly in space
or high in the atmosphere, fresh research on an
abandoned program to launch thousands of interceptors
into space and the expansion of a project to place
dozens of sensor-laden satellites into orbit. ...
"We've now gone back to the S.D.I. era of the first
Reagan administration," said Stephen I. Schwartz,
publisher of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
"It's clearly their intention to put weapons in space to
both defend U.S. assets as well as attack enemy missiles
and enemy satellites." ...
... it now appears likely that the taboo on space-based
defenses is over, said Michael Krepon of the Henry L.
Stimson Center.
"Every U.S. administration, with one exception, has
sought to avoid an arms race in space - the exception,
of course, was Reagan," he said. "Every other
administration hedged against a competition in space but
didn't lead. It now looks like the Bush administration
will break that mold."
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/22/weekinreview/22WINE.html
A World Seeking Security Is Told There's Just One Shield
By MICHAEL WINES
7/22/2001 from Reuters and US Newswire:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010722/ts/group_russia_usa_dc_9.html
Putin, Bush Agree Missile Shield, Arms Cuts Link
By Jon Boyle
Sunday July 22 1:00 PM ET
GENOA, Italy (Reuters) - U.S.-Russia arms talks took an
unexpected bound forward on Sunday, when Vladimir Putin
and George W. Bush agreed to link missile defense
systems to cuts in nuclear arsenals in a bid to strike a
new strategic pact. ...
http://politics.yahoo.com/politics/features/us_newswire/20017/0722-102.html
Transcript of a July 22 Press Conference By President
Bush And President Putin
7/22/2001 from the Chicago Tribune:
http://chicagotribune.com/news/printedition/article/0,2669,SAV-0107200051,FF.html
Congress mulls shield with eye on ABM Treaty
By John Diamond, Washington Bureau
July 20, 2001
WASHINGTON -- Democrats and Republicans in Washington
are drawing battle lines for what promises to be a major
debate over missile defense and its impact on relations
with Russia. At stake is a 30-year-old arms-control
treaty, the possibility of a new arms race and billions
in taxpayer dollars already pouring into an aggressive
missile defense testing program. Thursday on Capitol
Hill, Democrats and Republicans agreed on one thing:
Bush should consult with Congress before he takes any
steps that would violate the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile
Treaty, a pact that prohibits national missile defenses. ...
7/22/2001 from The Times (UK):
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001250568,00.html
Blair support for missile defence earns US praise
BY JAMES LANDALE AND PHILIP WEBSTER
FRIDAY JULY 20 2001
PRESIDENT BUSH praised Tony Blair's readiness to think
afresh on security last night after the Prime Minister
gave his most sympathetic response so far to America's
missile defence plans. ...
After talks at Chequers, the Prime Minister said that Mr
Bush was wholly right to raise the issue of the
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and to look
for "new and imaginative solutions". Although the US
still had to make specific proposals, it was right to
look for answers to a huge threat facing the world, Mr
Blair said. ...
Mr Bush said that it was time to think about new
enemies, rogue states that would threaten the world with
different kinds of terrorism, including cyber terrorism. ...
7/22/2001 from AFP:
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010721/1/19ja2.html
North Korea assails US missile defense test and warns of arms race
SEOUL, July 21 (AFP) -
North Korea has accused the United States of fabricating
threats from the communist state to justify its
anti-missile defence system and warned Washington it had
sparked a global arms race. In an angry reaction to the
US's July 14 missile defence test over the Pacific
Ocean, Pyongyang warned it could take retaliatory
self-defense measures, but did not specify what actions
it might take. "The test... proves that the
controversial missile defence system has, in fact,
entered the phase of full-dress establishment," a
spokesman for the North Korean foreign ministry said. "A
new global arms race has, therefore, become
unavoidable," the unidentified foreign ministry
spokesman was quoted as saying Friday by Pyongyang's
official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
Pyongyang usually speaks through an unidentified foreign
ministry spokesman answering to questions posed by KCNA
to state its positions in key issues. For more important
issues, the ministry itself puts out statements. The
spokesman said the US was citing the "non-existent
missile threat from the DPRK (North Korea) in order to
cover up its true colours." "The DPRK is compelled to
take a counter-action for self-defence by the US
deliberate provocation made to it in a bid to attain its
sinister aim." ...
North Korea's increasing anger follows a stiffening of
North Korean-US ties since George W. Bush became
president. ...
7/22/2001 from AP:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010721/wl/ukraine_china_2.html
Jiang Enlists Ukraine's Support
By SERGEI SHARGORODSKY, Associated Press Writer
Saturday July 21 3:32 PM ET
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - Chinese President Jiang Zemin
enlisted Ukraine's support on Saturday for his country's
opposition to U.S. missile defense plans, issuing a
joint statement recommending the preservation of the
Soviet-era ABM treaty with Washington. ...
Jiang met Friday and Saturday with Ukrainian President
Leonid Kuchma. They talked about a wide range of issues,
including cooperation on space, aviation and military
technology, said Kuchma's spokesman Oleksandr
Martynenko.
The countries signed a joint declaration on friendship
and cooperation, an agreement on extradition of
criminals and a tourism accord, among other documents. …
7/22/2001 from The Korea Times:
http://www.hankooki.com/times/200107/t2001072217000240110.htm
US to Ditch Korea's Weapons Integration If It Buys
Non-US Aircraft in F-X Plan
By Kim Kwang-tae, Staff Reporter
The United States recently said that it would not help
integrate U.S. weapons and cryptographic systems should
Korea buy non-U.S. aircraft in its $3.3 billion
next-generation fighter program, code-named F-X. ...
7/22/2001 from PBS:
http://www.pbs.org/globalization/nader.html
Globalization & Human Rights
Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate
March 1998 in his Washington DC office
7/23/2001 from AP:
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010723/17/gun-buybacks
Bush Ends Funding For Gun Buyback
By SHANNON McCAFFREY, Associated Press Writer
Updated: Mon, Jul 23 5:50 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration on Monday said
it was ending funding for a gun buyback program at the
Department of Housing and Urban Development. ...
7/23/2001 from AP:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010723/wl/italy_us_1.html
Italian Leader Backs Bush on Shield
By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press Writer
Monday July 23 8:31 PM ET
ROME (AP) - Italy's premier gave strong backing to
President Bush's plan for a missile defense shield
Monday and chided other European governments for not
realizing it is necessary.
At a joint press conference, Silvio Berlusconi urged
Russia to come on board with the U.S. plans, saying he
agreed strongly that the new military threats facing the
United States, Europe and even Russia required new
responses. ...
25 July 2001 at the World Socialist Web Site:
Bush administration renews US drive to militarize space
By Joseph Kay
8/1/2001 from AP:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010801/us/space_weapons_2.html
Military Chief Urges Space Weaponry
By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
Wednesday August 1 3:03 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States' expanding
commercial stake in space makes it likely the military
will be called on to put both offensive and defensive
weapons in orbit, the Air Force's top general said
Wednesday.
Gen. Michael Ryan, the Air Force chief of staff, told
reporters that as the United States becomes more
dependent on space for communications, surveillance and
navigation, the nation's need for space weaponry will
increase.
``Eventually we're going to have to have the capability
to take things out in orbit,'' he said. He said he
favored developing anti-satellite weapons, which the
Pentagon has worked on for years but never deployed. ...
He touted the space-based laser, which is in development
as part of a U.S. defense against ballistic missiles.
Ryan said military and commercial satellites give the
United States a large advantage over most nations.
``We have to in some way be able to protect those
assets, at least defensively,'' he said. ``And that
leads you to the thought that if you're going to be up
there trying to protect them defensively, where do you
cross the line into offensive operations?
``Historically, wherever commerce has gone and our
national interests have gone, so have gone our forces -
on land, sea, in the air, we tended to exploit the realm
we were dependent upon. I would suggest that sometime in
the future here we're going to have to come to a policy
decision on whether we're going to use space for both
defensive and offensive capabilities.'' ...
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