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Archived News Articles: NMD and Foreign Policy
8/13/2001 from AP:
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010813/14/int-rumsfeld-russia
Russia Rejects ABM Withdrawal
By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
Updated: Mon, Aug 13 2:11 PM EDT
MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin stood
firm Monday against American determination to abandon
the landmark 1972 treaty banning national missile
defenses.
And while Putin expressed hope for a new deal on nuclear
arms cuts, his government made clear that it expects
detailed, potentially lengthy negotiations, which
President Bush is determined to avoid.
In remarks to reporters before meeting with Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Putin said Russia has not
changed its view that the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty
should be preserved, even if amended. …
8/13/2001 from ABC News:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/abc/20010813/wl/china010813_spyplane_1.html
China Refuses U.S. Spy Plane Payment
By ABCNEWS.com
8/14/2001 space.com and ap:
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/launches/satellite_orbits_010809.html
U.S. Spy Satellites Stray From Their Orbits, Analyst Says
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010806/sc/rocket_launch_1.html
Air Force Launches Titan Rocket
Monday August 6 5:11 AM ET
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The Air Force launched a
Titan IV rocket Monday carrying a satellite designed to
provide early warning of missile launches and nuclear
explosions. ...
This is the 21st satellite of its kind launched by the
Air Force. The DSP system has been a cornerstone of U.S.
efforts to monitor missile launches over the past three
decades, and would be integral to the operation of the
national missile defense system being pushed by
President Bush, said Air Force Col. Charles Cornell,
deputy system program director. ...
8/14/2001 from AP:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010814/wl/koreas_anniversary_3.html
Koreas Mark 1945 Victory Separately
By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press Writer
Tuesday August 14 12:25 PM ET
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A year ago, Aug. 15 was a
truly Korean national holiday: the leaders of the two
Koreas talked peace and reconciliation and groups of old
Koreans in Seoul and Pyongyang crossed the border for
tearful family reunions after decades apart. The mood is
hardly celebratory in Seoul this year. No show of
solidarity is planned for Wednesday, the anniversary of
Korea's 1945 liberation from Japanese colonial rule.
Instead, students filled downtown Seoul streets Tuesday
with anti-U.S. slogans, blaming the renewed chill on the
divided Korean peninsula on the Bush administration and
its plan for a missile defense system. North Korea,
along with Russia and China, oppose the plan. ...
8/15/2001 from AP:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010815/us/un_cash_crunch_1.html
Unpaid Dues Cause U.N. Cash Crunch
By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United Nations is facing a
summer cash crunch because of unpaid dues - mainly from
the United States, which owes $463 million. ...its (US)
unpaid dues account for 64 percent of the money owed to
the United Nations. ...The $463 million in unpaid U.S.
dues to the current budget is distinct from $582 million
in back dues that Washington had owed the United Nations
since the mid-1990s. That payment has not yet received
full approval from Congress. ...
8/16/2001 from ABC News:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/abc/20010816/pl/budget010816_1.html
Bush Rejiggers Accounting Practices
By Carter M. Yang ABCNEWS.com
Thursday August 16 06:13 PM EDT
" ... Under the change, $4.3 billion in tax revenues
that would have normally been earmarked for the
retirement program's trust fund will be counted as part
of the federal budget surplus, allowing the government
to spend the money while avoiding the appearance of
raiding Social Security funds.
"They realized that if we stuck with the conventional
accounting practice, the numbers would reveal that we
were dipping into the Social Security trust fund surplus
to pay for other government activities," said Robert
Reischauer, president of the nonpartisan Urban
Institute. .... "
8/16/2001 from Reuters:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010816/sc/space_satellites_dc_1.html
U.S., China, G7 Countries Flout Satellite Registry
By Christopher Noble
Thursday August 16 1:21 PM ET
BOSTON (Reuters) - The United States, China and most
other major nations with satellites in space have failed
to register all of them -- a violation of a Cold War-era
U.N. convention intended to keep the arms race from
moving into orbit, a Harvard University astronomer
(Jonathan McDowell) said. ...
The 1975 Convention on Registration of Objects Launched
into Outer Space obligates countries to keep a registry
of what they launch and file it with the United Nations.
The United Nations first passed a resolution to keep
track of space objects in 1961 and Washington and Moscow
started registering satellites in 1962 as the space race
heated up. The 1975 convention is an offshoot of the
first resolution and created the registry for the
objects. ...
At present, the United States is the worst offender in
terms of raw numbers, having failed to register 141 of
the 2,000 satellite payloads launched since the start of
the space age, McDowell said. Of those, he estimated
seven were military or spy satellites that Washington
deliberately did not register.
Other countries such as China, Germany, France, Italy
and Britain (and Japan and Canada) have failed to
register a higher percentage of their payloads, McDowell
said. Only the Russian Federation is in full compliance,
as was the Soviet Union, which registered all its space
objects from 1970, McDowell said. ...
8/19/2001 from the San Francisco Chronicle:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/08/12/ED213628.DTL
ON MISSILE DEFENSE
A pattern of deception
Sunday, August 12, 2001
" ... It's time for the American people to understand
what's at stake. The development of a missile defense
system violates the 1972 ABM Treaty, which outlawed
missile defense systems. If the United States prepares
to launch space-based weapons, it will also violate the
1967 Outer Space Treaty that banned the militarization
of space.
We also need to shed the illusion that there is such a
thing as a perfect defense. Someone, someday, will
inevitably find a way to pierce supposedly impenetrable
defenses.
This debate is not just about whether it is possible to
protect Americans from incoming missiles. It is about
the desirability of transforming the military into a
space-based fighting force and deploying weapons in
outer space.
This may sound like science fiction, but it is what's
passing as serious military policy in the Bush White House."
8/30/2001 from AP:
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010830/10/us-army-asia
Army Shifting Equipment to Asia
By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
Updated: Thu, Aug 30 10:14 AM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Army intends to move some combat
weaponry and equipment stored in Europe to areas in
Asia, reflecting the Bush administration's broader shift
in strategic focus, the Army's top official said
Thursday. Army Secretary Thomas White told a group of
reporters that weaponry and equipment stored in Germany
and Italy for use by troop reinforcements in the event
of war will be moved to Asia. No troops would be moved
with the equipment, he said. ...
8/30/2001 from CNN (Reuters) and The Washington Post:
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/08/29/missile.defense/index.html
Scientist: Missiles intercepted by U.S. could fall elsewhere
August 30, 2001 Posted: 11:16 AM EDT (1516 GMT)
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- President Bush's proposed
missile shield may protect American cities from attack,
but the intercepted missiles could fall on Canada and
European countries, according to New Scientist magazine. ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/A10827-2001Aug28.html
The Pentagon And the Professor
By Geoffrey Forden
Wednesday, August 29, 2001; Page A21
8/30/2001 from Reuters:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010830/sc/arms_missile_un_dc_2.html
Keep Space Weapons-Free, UN Urges
By Michael Christie
Thursday August 30 4:05 AM ET
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The United Nations on Thursday urged
President Bush to keep his plans for a missile shield
down on earth and to preserve outer space for peace.
``Hitherto outer space has been militarized we concede
but not weaponized. There has been no placement of
weapons in outer space,'' said U.N. Under-Secretary
General for disarmament affairs Jayantha Dhanapala in an
interview.
``I believe it is vitally important that we should
preserve outer space for peaceful purposes and the
development of missile defenses should in no way violate
the present non-weaponized state of outer space,''
Dhanapala told Reuters in Sydney. ...
9/1/2001 from The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/02/international/02CHIN.html
White House to Let China Build Up Its Nuclear Fleet
By DAVID E. SANGER
September 2, 2001
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 - The Bush administration, seeking
to overcome Chinese objections to its missile defense
program, intends to tell Chinese officials that it has
no objections to the country's plans to build up its
relatively small fleet of nuclear missiles capable of
striking the United States, according to senior
administration officials.
One senior official said that, in the future, the United
States and China may discuss resuming underground
nuclear tests if they are needed to assure the safety
and reliability of their arsenals.
Such a move, however, might also allow China to improve
the quality of its nuclear warheads and lead to the end
of a worldwide moratorium on nuclear testing. ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/02/international/asia/02DIPL.html
U.S. Imposes Sanctions on China Arms Maker
By JANE PERLEZ
September 2, 2001
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 - The Bush administration imposed
trade sanctions today on a major Chinese arms
manufacturer after failing to persuade the Chinese
government to stop exports of missile technology to
Pakistan. ...
President Bush is scheduled to visit China for the first
time in October, and preparations are underway by both
sides to make the trip as smooth and friendly as
possible. Sanctions were also being placed on the
organization in Pakistan, the National Development
Complex, that received the Chinese technology. As the
administration has tried to deal with the Chinese sales
of weapons technology in the last few months, it was
also been debating whether to suspend issuing licenses
for American telecommunication companies that place
their satellites on Chinese rockets. ...
9/2/2001 from The Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26955-2001Aug31.html
Kremlin Raises Doubts About Texas Summit Plan
By Sharon LaFraniere, Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, September 1, 2001; Page A23
MOSCOW, Aug. 31 -- The Kremlin hinted today that Russian
President Vladimir Putin might not meet President Bush
at his Texas ranch for a planned November summit on
missile defense and other issues. ...
9/2/2001 from The Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/245/nation/ABM_tests_mostly_miss_real_issues_analysts_say+.shtml
ABM tests mostly miss real issues, analysts say
Tracking capabilities have lagged for decades
By Fred Kaplan, Globe Staff, 9/2/2001
9/2/2001 from Space.com:
http://www.space.com/news/military_space_010829-1.html
U.S Air Force and NASA Work Closer on Strategic Space Control
By Leonard David, Senior Space Writer
posted: 03:55 pm ET 29 August 2001
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO -- The United States Air Force
and NASA are beefing up their cooperative efforts to
develop reusable launch vehicle technologies in an
effort to assure the American military's dominance and
control of space for national security purposes. ...
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