November 2004 Arms Control In Print

OF SPECIAL INTEREST

Bennhold, Katrin. “Nuclear Energy Is Making a Global Comeback,” The New York Times, October 17, 2004.

Litovkin, Viktor. “Russia Modernizes Nuclear Weapons,” Moscow News, October 20-26, 2004.

Nichols, Bill and Barbara Slavin, “Powell: U.S. Doing All It Can In Iraq,” USA Today, October 19, 2004.

I. STRATEGIC ARMS CONTROL

Babakin, Alexander. “The Defense Ministry's Cuts Will Hit the Air Force Hardest,” Nezavisimaya Gazeta, October 12, 2004.

Crock, Stan. “Bush: Star Wars in His Eyes,” Business Week, October 13, 2004.

Nartker, Mike. “Russia, U.S. Complete Initial Security Upgrades at Russian Strategic Rocket Forces Sites,” Global Security Newswire, October 18, 2004.

Kislyakov, Andrei. “Weapons Should Not Be In Space,” RIA Novosti, October 14, 2004.

II. PROLIFERATION

Milhollin, Gary and Liz Palmer. “Brazil’s Nuclear Puzzle,” Science, October 22, 2004, 306:617.

IRAN
Dinmore, Guy. “U.S. Presidential Election: Europeans Urge Bush to Adopt Kerry’s Line on Iran,” The Financial Times, October 2, 2004.

Djakhfarova, Sojida. “Analysis: Russia Treads Fine Line on Iranian Nuclear Issue,” RFE/RL, October 13, 2004.

Frantz, Douglas. “Iran Moving Methodically Toward Nuclear Capability,” The Los Angeles Times, October 21, 2004.

King, Laura. “Israel May Have Iran in Its Sights,” The Los Angeles Times, October 22, 2004.

Opall-Rome, Barbara. “Israel: Iranian Shihab To Carry New Warhead,” Defense News, October 11, 2004, pp.28.

Sokolski, Henry. “Kamikaze Kerry: Should We Really Be Accelerating Iran’s Nuclear Project,” National Review Online, October 5, 2004.

Weiseman, Steven R. “U.S. in Talks With Europeans on a Nuclear Deal with Iran.” The New York Times, October 12, 2004.

Weymouth, Lally. “No Iranian ‘Plan’ for Weapons,” The Washington Post, October 4, 2004, pp.A23.

IRAQ

Barstow, David, William J. Broad and Jeff Gerth. “How the White House Embraced Disputed Arms Intelligence,” The New York Times, October 3, 2004.

Drogin, Bob. “Iraq’s ‘Nuclear Mastermind’ Tells Tale of Ambition, Deceit,” The Los Angeles Times, October 3, 2004, pp.1.

NORTH KOREA

Scoblic, Peter J. “Why N. Korea Talks Matter So Much,” The Los Angeles Times, October 5, 2004.

SOUTH KOREA

Moon, Ban Ki. “South Korea’s Nuclear Safeguards,” The Washington Post, October 8, 2004.

INDIA

Mistry, Dinshaw. “The Unrealized Promise of International Institutions: The Test Ban Treaty and India’s Nuclear Breakout,” Security Studies, Vol. 12, No.4, Summer 2003, pp.116-151.

PAKISTAN

Bowers, Faye. “Pakistan’s Disturbing Nuclear Trial,” The Christian Science Monitor, October 27, 2004.

III. MISSILE DEFENSE

Ivanov, Vladimir and Viktor Myasnikov, “U.S. Missiles in the U.K. Designed to Intercept Russian ICBM's,” Nezavisimaya Gazeta, October 18, 2004.

IV. NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION

Damianova, Julia. “If You Want to Test a Nuke, Vienna's Watching,” Reuters, October 18, 2004.

Gellman, Barton and Dafna Linzer, “Unprecedented Peril Forces Tough Calls,” The Washington Post, October 26, 2004.

Smith, Derek D. “Deterrence and Counterproliferation in an Age of Weapons of Mass Destruction,” Security Studies, Vol.12, No.4, Summer 2003, pp. 152-197.

Whitmore, Brian. “Nonproliferation Officials Urge Revamping 1970 Nuclear Controls,” Boston Globe, October 3, 2004.

V. NUCLEAR WEAPONS MATERIAL CONTROL

Albright, David and Kimberly Kramer. “ Stockpiles Still Growing,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, November/December 2004, pp.14-16.

Bunn, Matthew, William Hoehn and Anthony Weir. “Threat Reduction Funding in the Bush Administration: Claims and Counterclaims in the First Presidential Debate,” Managing the Atom Project, Harvard University, and Russian-American Nuclear Security Advisory Council, October 6, 2004.

Burghart, Daniel L., James E. Goodby, Cheryl A. Loeb and Charles L. Thornton, “Cooperative Threat Reduction for a New Era,” Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University, September 2004, pgs. 60.

Clayton, Mark. “Plutonium: Rising Terror Threat,” The Christian Science Monitor, October 7, 2004.

Habiger, Eugene, James Holmes and Igor Khripunov. “Secure Russian Stockpile,” Defense News, October 4, 2004, pp.29.

Hirsh, Michael and John Barry. “Madmen, Rogues and Nukes” Newsweek, October 11, 2004.

Maerli, Morten Bremer and Lars van Dassen. “Europe, Carry Your Weight,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, November/December 2004, pp.19-21.

VI. CONVENTIONAL ARMS CONTROL AND ARMS TRANSFERS

Cody, Edward. “Politics Puts Hold on Taiwan Arms Purchase,” The Washington Post, October 10, 2004.

Kumaraswamy, P.R. “Are Indo-Israeli Deals Doomed,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, November/December 2004, pp. 12-13.

Matthews, William. “U.S. Tries to Hold Europe to China Arms Ban,” Defense News, October 4, 2004, pp.8.

Sánchez-Andrés, Antonio. “Arms Exports and Restructuring in the Russian Defence Industry,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 56, No. 5, July 2004, pp. 687-706.

“Armed Forces to Be Reduced by 100,000 By Year End,” RIA Novosti, October 12, 2004.

VII. CHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS ISSUES

Wright, Susan. “Taking Biodefense Too Far,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, November/December 2004, pp.58-66.

VII. U.S. POLICY

Kessler, Glen. “India’s Ex-Foreign Minister Assails Powell,” The Washington Post, October 28, 2004.

Matthews, William. “U.S. Mini Nukes Funded, For Now,” Defense News, October 4, 2004, pp.16.

VIII. REGIONAL SECURITY ALLIANCES AND ISSUES

NATO

“Russia to Benefit From NATO Expansion Into Caucasus, U.S. Envoy Says,” BBC Monitoring, October 12, 2004.

Kristensen, Hans M. and Robert S. Norris, “U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Europe, 1954-2004,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, November/ December 2004, pp.76-77.