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September 2005 Bibliography
OF SPECIAL INTEREST
Adiga, Aravind et. al, “Living Under the Cloud,” Time, August 1, 2005, pp. 36-39.
Bird, Kai, and Sherwin, Martin J., “The Myths of Hiroshima,” The Los Angeles Times, August 5, 2005.
Department of State, Adherence To And Compliance With Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments, August 2005, 108 pages.
Kennedy, David M., “Crossing the Moral Threshold,” Time, August 1, 2005, pg. 50.
Perkovich, George, “From Hiroshima to Armageddon: A Reading List,” Washington Post Book World, July 31, 2005, pg. 7.
Rhodes, Richard, “Living With the Bomb,” National Geographic, August 2005, pp. 98-113.
I. PROLIFERATION
BBC News, “UK Helped Israel Get Nuclear Bomb,” August 4, 2005.
Bender, Bryan, “U.S. Saw Spread of Nuclear Arms as ‘Inevitable,’” The Boston Globe, August 6, 2005.
Boese, Wade, “False Claims of PSI Success,” The Washington Times, August 17, 2005, A16.
Cirinicione, Joe and Jon B. Wolfsthal and Miriam Rajkumar, Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Threats, 2 nd ed., Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC, 2005, 490 pages.
Grier, Peter, “A Pivotal Moment for ‘Axis of Evil,’” The Christian Science Monitor, August 25, 2005.
Iacovou, George and Condoleezza Rice, “Safeguarding Nuclear Arsenals: Multinational Proliferation Security Initiative Proving Critical,” The Washington Times, August 12, 2005, A19.
Macfarlane, Allison, All Weapons of Mass Destruction Are Not Equal, MIT Security Studies Program, July 2005, 6 pages.
Rosen, James, “Nuclear Risks Grow as Memories Fade,” The Rock Hill Herald, August 6, 2005.
Slavin, Barbara, “N. Korea, Iran Take Firm Stand on Nukes,” USA Today, August 7, 2005.
Turner, Mark, “Countries Push for Stronger Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime,” The Financial Times, July 27, 2005.
BRAZIL
Associated Press, “Brazil Nearly Built Nuclear Bomb in 1990s, Scientist Says,” The Globe and Mail August 30, 2005.
CHINA
Alder, Edward; Harney, Alexandria; and Sevastapulo, Demetri, “Top Chinese General Warns US over attack,” The Financial Times, July 14, 2005.
Office of the Secretary of Defense, Annual Report to Congress: The Military Power of the People’s Republic of China, July 2005, 45 pages.
INDIA
Chandran, Suba, “Indo-U.S. Nuclear Agreement: A Grand Deal or a Faustian Bargain?” Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies ( New Delhi), August 10, 2005.
Economist, “Welcome to the Nuclear Club,” July 19, 2005.
Harrison, Selig, “Why the India Deal is Good,” The Washington Post, August 15, 2005.
Horner, Daniel and Mark Hibbs, “India to receive U.S. nuclear goods, expand safeguards under new proposal,” Nucleaonics Week, July 21, 2005, page 1.
Korb, Lawrence J., and Ogden, Peter, “A Bad Deal for India,” The Washington Post, August 3, 2005.
LaFranchi, Howard, “Why US is shifting nuclear stand with India,” The Christian Science Monitor, July 20, 2005.
Linzer, Dafna, and Milbank, Dana, “U.S., India May Share Nuclear Technology,” The Washington Post, July 19, 2005.
Robbins, Carla Anne, “Bush’s India Deal Bends Nuclear Rules,” The Wall Street Journal, July 20, 2005, A11.
Sokolski, Henry, “U.S. Nonproliferation Policy Melts Down,” The Weekly Standard, August 1, 2005.
Squassoni, Sharon, U.S. Nuclear Cooperation With India: Issues for Congress, Congressional Research Service, July 29, 2005, 11 pages.
Talbott, Strobe, “Good Day for India, Bad Day for Nonproliferation,” YaleGlobal, July 21, 2005.
Varadarajan, Siddharth, “Nuclear cooperation with US: Experts urge caution,” The Hindu, July 18, 2005.
Weisman, Steven R., “U.S. to Broaden India’s Access to Nuclear-Power Technology,” The New York Times, July 19, 2005.
IRAN
Afrasiabi, Kaveh L., “The Myth of the EU Olive Branch,” Asia Times Online, August 13, 2005.
Davis, Ian, “Taking Iran to the UN: A Dangerous Game,” International Herald Tribune, August 4, 2005.
Dombey, Daniel and Najmeh Bozorgmehrin, “EU-3 Seeks to Take Iran Before UN on Nuclear Issue,” The Financial Times, August 31, 2005.
Fathi, Nazila, “Iran Resumes Nuclear Work, a Step That May Lead to Sanctions,” The New York Times, August 8, 2005.
King, Jr., Neil and Farnaz Fassihi, “Iran Holds Big Bargaining Chips in Dispute,” The Wall Street Journal, August 18, 2005.
Linzer, Dafna, “No Proof Found of Iran Arms Program,” The Washington Post, August 23, 2005.
Milhollin, Gary, “Don’t Underestimate the Mullahs,” The New York Times, August 23, 2005.
Mojtahedzadeh, Pirouz, “Iran’s Nuclear Program: A Crisis of Choice, Not Necessity,” The International Herald Tribune, August 11, 2005.
Mokhtari, Fariborz, “Coping With Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions,” The Los Angeles Times, August 22, 2005.
Rajesh, Y.P., “Iran Eyes Indian Support as Nuclear Row Escalates,” Reuters, August 31, 2005.
IRAQ
Rich, Frank, “Follow the Uranium,” The New York Times, July 17, 2005.
NORTH KOREA
“North Korea’s Nuclear Odyssey Aided by Soviets, China, Pakistan,” Agence France Presse, July 26, 2005.
Demick, Barbara, “N. Korea Takes Pride in Arsenal,” The Los Angeles Times, July 11, 2005.
Demick, Barbara, “Split Develops over North Korea’s Right to Civilian Nuclear Power,” The Los Angeles Times, August 24, 2005, page A3.
Gottemoeller, Rose, “The Process in Place,” The New York Times, August 23, 2005.
Jehl, Douglas and Sanger, David E., “North Korean Nuclear Goals: Case of Mixed Signals,” The New York Times, July 25, 2005.
Kessler, Glenn, “Both Sides Bend to Restart N. Korea Talks,” The Washington Post, July 13, 2005.
Kirkpatrick, David D., “Christian Groups Press Bush about North Korea,” The New York Times, August 9, 2005.
Kristof, Nicholas, “Behind Enemy Lines,” The New York Times, July 12, 2005.
Kristof, Nicholas, “A Sucker Bet,” The New York Times, July 17, 2005.
Levin, Carl and Hillary Clinton, “North Korea’s Rising Urgency,” The Washington Post, July 5, 2005.
Marquand, Robert, “China key to new North Korea talks,” The Christian Science Monitor, July 12, 2005.
Schweid, Barry, “U.S. Envoy Says N. Korea Received Offer,” Associated Press, August 23, 2005.
Shanker, Thom, “U.S. Banks on Technology in Revised Military Plan for Possible North Korea Conflict,” The New York Times, August 29, 2005.
Stossel, Scott, “North Korea: The War Game,” The Atlantic Monthly, July/August 2005, pp. 97-108.
The Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Building Multi-Party Capacity for a WMD-Free Korea, June 2005, 58 pages.
Wu, Anne, “Kim Jong-Il Practicing the ‘Art of War,’” The Korea Herald, August 15, 2005.
PAKISTAN
Masood, Salman and David Rohde, “Pakistan Now Says Scientist Did Send Koreans Nuclear Gear,” The New York Times, August 25, 2005.
II. MISSILE DEFENSE
Brown, Drew, “Missile Defense System Tests To Restart in Fall,” Miami Herald, July 22, 2005.
Christie, Rebecca, “DoD: US Has ‘Better Than Zero’ Chance at Missile Intercept,” Dow Jones News, July 21, 2005.
Pasquale, Cynthia Di, “Independent Review Confirms SBIRS Cost Growth Tops 25 Percent,” Inside Missile Defense, August 17, 2005, page 3.
Pugliese, David, “No Thanks, Neighbor,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2005, pp. 14-16.
Sieff, Martin, “BMD Watch: Japan in PAC-3 Deal,” United Press International, July 22, 2005.
Tyson, Ann Scott, “U.S. Missile Defense Being Expanded, General Says,” The Washington Post, July 22, 2005, A10.
III. NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION
Brosnan, James W., “Keeping Track of The Stuff Bombs Are Made Of,” Scripps Howard News Service, August 4, 2005.
Brugger, Seth, “International Law, Terrorism, and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Finding and Filling the Gaps,” Rutgers University Law Review, 57 Rutgers L. Rev. 803. Winter 2005.
Costa, Keith J., “Sen. Domenici: U.S., Russia Agree on Liability for Plutonium Disposition,” Inside Missile Defense, August 3, 2005, pp 13-14.
Finn, Peter, “Delegation Led by U.S. Senators Detained Briefly at Russian Airport,” The Washington Post, August 29, 2005, A16.
Government Accountability Office, Nuclear Nonproliferation: Better Management Controls Needed for Some DOE Projects in Russia and Other Countries, August 29, 2005, 31 pages.
Holley, David, “U.S.–Russian Efforts to Protect Arsenal Gain Steam,” The Los Angeles Times, August 27, 2005.
Johnson, Rebecca, “All Talk, No Action,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2005, pp. 19-20.
MacLachlan, Ann, “U.S., Russia resolve liability issue that had blocked Pu disposition program,” Nucleaonics Week, July 18, 2005, page 1.
Read, Jeffrey, Reported Accomplishments of Selected Threat Reduction and Nonproliferation Programs, By Agency, For Fiscal Year 2004, RANSAC Policy Update, July 2005, 13 pages.
Webb, Greg, “Nonproliferation Sees Little Headway at G-8 Summit,” Global Security Newswire, July 8, 2005.
Williams, Isabelle, Nonproliferation Issues at the July 2005 Group of Eight Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, RANSAC Policy Update, July 18, 2005, 4 pages.
IV. CONVENTIONAL ARMS CONTROL AND ARMS TREATIES
Agence France-Presse, “Two Centuries Later, Russian Troops Begin Leaving Georgia,” July 30, 2005.
Chivers, C.J., “Ill-Secured Soviet Arms Depots Tempting Rebels and Terrorists,” The New York Times, July 16, 2005.
Dine, Philip, “Boeing Seeks to Persuade India to Buy Super Hornet Fighters,” The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 27, 2005.
Gedda, George, “Venezuela Giving Arms to FARC,” The Miami Herald, August 4, 2005.
Grimmett, Richard F., Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 1997-2004, Congressional Research Service, August 29, 2005, 86 pages.
Hewson, Robert, and Koch, Andrew, “Pakistan Tests Cruise Missile,” Jane’s Defence Weekly, August 17, 2005, Page 4.
Medellín, Jorge Alehandro, and Roeder, Jonathan, “U.S. Arms Fuel Drug Violence on Border,” The Herald Mexico/El Universal, August 3, 2005.
Raghuvanshi, Vivek, “Pakistan Missile Test Jolts India,” Defense News, August 22, 2005, page 50.
Raghuvanshi, Vivek, “Indian Navy Wants More MiG-29Ks,” Defense News, August 1, 2005, page 15.
The Jerusalem Post, “Rethink Arms Exports,” July 1, 2005, page 13.
UN Secretary General, Assistance to States for curbing illicit traffic in small arms and collecting them: The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects, July 25, 2005, 16 pages.
Zorzovilis, Pericles N., “Greece to Buy F-16s, Tanks, Other Aircraft,” Defense News, July 25, 2005, pg. 33.
V. CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS ISSUES
Agence France-Presse, “As the Aral Sea Dries Up, The Soviet Union’s Biological Weapons Secrets Surface,” August 10, 2005.
Ahmed, Azam, “Congress Warned of New Bio-Terror Threat,” United Press International, July 13, 2005.
Anderson, Norman, and Anderson, N. Leigh, “A Manhattan Project for Bioterrorism,” The Scientist, Vol 19, Issue 13. July 4, 2005. Page 10.
Check, Erika, “Synthetic Biologists Face up to Security Issues,” Nature, August 18, 2005.
Ember, Lois, “Testing the Limits: Biodefense Research to Characterize Threats May Violate the Biological Weapons Treaty, Experts Say,” Chemical and Engineering News, Volume 83, Number 83. August 15, 2005, pp. 26-32.
Leppard, David, and Winnett, Robert, “Police Foil Gas Attack at Commons,” The London Times, August 21, 2005.
Strobel, Warren P., “U.S. Backs Away from Claims That Cuba has Bioweapons Program,” Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Service, August 31, 2005.
Warrick, Joby, “Soviet Germ Factories Pose New Threat,” The Washington Post, August 20, 2005.
Warrick, Joby, “U.S. to Aid Ukraine in Countering Bioweapons,” The Washington Post, August 30, 2005, A11.
VI. U.S. POLICY
Boese, Wade, “Shunning the Table,” The American Prospect Online, July 18, 2005.
Bosco, David, “The World According to Bolton,” The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2005, pp. 24-31.
Broad, William J., “Weapons Expert Backs Reliability of Disputed Warhead,” The New York Times, July 13, 2005.
Broyles, William, “Nuclear Hubris in Idaho,” The New York Times, August 3, 2005.
Butler, Amy, “Holstering Peacekeeper,” Aviation Week and Space Technology, August 1, 2005, pp. 46-49.
Butler, Amy, “Shopping for Deterrence,” Aviation Week and Space Technology, August 1, 2005, pp. 49-50.
Butler, Amy, “Guarding the Nukes,” Aviation Week and Space Technology, August 1, 2005, pg. 50.
Fleck, John, “Scientist Raises Idea of Replacing Plutonium With Less Dangerous Uranium,” Albuquerque Journal, August 15, 2005.
Government Accountability Office, Securing U.S. Nuclear Materials: DOE Needs to Take Action to Safely Consolidate Plutonium, July 20, 2005, 33 pages.
Haas, Richard N., “Regime Change and Its Limits,” Foreign Affairs, July/August 2005.
Linzer, Dafna, “State Dept. Reshuffling on Hold,” The Washington Post, August 18, 2005, A19.
Pelosi, Nancy, and Reid, Harry, “How to Effectively Confront Nuclear Threat from Terrorists,” USA Today, August 25, 2005, page 13.
Risen, James, “Spy's Notes on Iraqi Aims Were Shelved, Suit Says,” The New York Times, August 1, 2005, Page A8.
Ruppe, David, “Bush Looks to Cut Down State Dept. Arms Control Offices,” Global Security Newswire, August 3, 2005.
Scoblic, J. Peter, “Moral Hazard: How Conservatism Leaves Us Vulnerable to Nuclear Terrorism,” The New Republic, August 8, 2005, pp. 17-23.
VII. SPACE
Earle, Ralph, and Shanahan, Ralph, “Arming the Cosmos,” Defense News, July 18, 2005. page 29.
Pasquale, Cynthia Di, “General: Space Superiority Not Analogous to Weaponization of Space,” Inside Missile Defense, August 3, 2005, page 1.