June 2004 Arms Control In Print

OF SPECIAL INTEREST

"From the Editors: The Times and Iraq," The New York Times, May 26, 2004, p. A22-23

Gordon, Michael. "'Iraq: Now They Tell Us': An Exchange," The New York Review of Books, April 8, 2004.

Okrent, Daniel. "Weapons of Mass Destruction? Or Mass Distraction?," The New York Times, May 30, 2004,.p.4-2.

I. STRATEGIC ARMS CONTROL

Baker, Peter. "A Former Superpower's Hazardous Legacy," The Washington Post, May 26, 2004.

Blank, Stephen. "Spinning the Nuclear Missile Wheel," The Asia Times, May 4, 2004.

Perry, William J. "United States and Russia in Isolation," The Moscow Times, May 7, 2004.

Peterson, Scott. "U.S. and Russia Nukes: Still on Cold War, Hair-Trigger Alert," The Christian Science Monitor, May 6, 2004.

Vasilyev, Yuri. "On the Brink," The Moscow News, May 12, 2004.

Yaynich, Valery E. "The Ultimate Terrorism," The Washington Post, April 30, 2004, p. A29.

II. PROLIFERATION

Broad, William J. "Plowshare or Sword?," The New York Times, May 25, 2004, p. F1.

PAKISTAN

Weiss, Leonard. "Pakistan: It's déjà vu all over again," The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, May/June 2004, p. 52-59.

IRAQ

Burrough, Bryan, Evgenia Peretz, and David Rose. "The Path to War," Vanity Fair, May 2004.

Landay, Jonathon S. "Iraqi Defector, Source on WMD Claims, Was Cited as Unreliable," The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 18, 2004.

NORTH KOREA

Poneman,Daniel and Robert Gallucci. "U.S. Should Offer a Deal to North Korea," Los Angeles Times, May 24, 2004, p. B11.

Sanger, David E. "The North Korean Uranium Challenge," The New York Times, May 23, 2004, p. A9.

Sanger, David E. and William J. Broad. "Evidence Is Cited Linking Koreans to Libya Uranium," The New York Times, May 22, 2004, p. 1.

Wolfsthal, Jon. "Building Trust with Pyongyang May Not Be Enough to End Nuclear Crisis," Munhwa Ilbo, May 4, 2004.

IRAN

Charbonneau, Louis. "U.N. Nuke Report On Iran Seen Full Of Open Questions," Reuters, May 25, 2004.

Kristof, Nicholas D. "Nuts with Nukes," The New York Times, May 19, 2004, p. A25.

III. MISSILE DEFENSE

Diehl, Jackson. "Dubious Threat, Expensive Defense," The Washington Post, April 26, A23.

Glanz, James. "Star Wars: The Next Version," The New York Times, May 4, 2004, p. F1.

Hackett, James. "Will KEI Toughen Missile Shield? No: Revive Brilliant Pebbles Approach," DefenseNews, May 17, 2004, p. 45.

Lambakis, Steven. "Will KEI Toughen Missile Shield? Yes: Boost-Phase Is Worth the Expense," DefenseNews, May 17, 2004, p.45.

Sherman, Jason. "Laser Weapon Research," Defense News, May 24, 2004, p. 22.

Wall, Robert. "Vanishing Margin; U.S. Missile Defense Projects Show Poor Cost and Schedule Performance," Aviation Week & Space Technology, May 3, 2004, p.31.

IV. NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION

Potter, William C., Charles D. Ferguson, and Leonard S. Spector. "The Four Faces of Nuclear Terror," Foreign Affairs, May/June 2004, p. 130-132.

V. NUCLEAR WEAPONS MATERIAL CONTROL

Slevin, Peter. "U.S.-Russia Plutonium Disposal Project Languishing," The Washington Post, May 10, 2004, p. A17.

VI. CHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS ISSUES

Hirschberg, Rona, John La Montagne, and Anthony S. Fauci. "Biomedical Research- An Integral Component of National Security," The New England Journal of Medicine, May 20, 2004, p. 2119-2121.

Leitenberg, Milton, James Leonard, and Richard Spertzel. "Biodefense Crossing the Line," Politics and the Life Sciences, September 2004.

Richardson, Louise. "Buying Biosafety-Is the Price Right?," The New England Journal of Medicine, May 20, 2004, p. 2121-2123.

Tucker, Jonathan B. "The BWC New Process: A Preliminary Assessment," The Nonproliferation Review, Spring 2004.

Tucker, Jonathan B. and Paul F. Walker. "Bush Funding Cuts Put Chemical Arms At Risk," The Boston Globe, April 29, 2004.

Warrick, Joby. "An Al Qaeda 'Chemist' and the Quest for Ricin," The Washington Post, May 5, 2004, p. A1.

VII. U.S. POLICY

Berger, Samuel R. "Foreign Policy for a Democratic President," Foreign Affairs, May/June 2004, p.47-63.

Levi, Michael A. "Dreaming of Clean Nukes," Nature, April 29, 2004, p.892.

Matthews, William. "Scientists: Bunker-Busting Nukes Are Unreliable," Defense News, May 3, 2004, p. 26.

VIII. REGIONAL SECURITY ALLIANCES AND ISSUES

NATO/ EU

Timofeeva, Irina. "The Party Said: NATO!," Novaya Gazeta (from WPS Montioring Agency), April 22, 2004.

Stroganov, Yuriy. "Russia's Kokoshin Sees Cooperation With US in Mutual Interest, But No Alliance (Interview with Andrey Kokoshin)," Trud, April 22, 2004.