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– President Joe Biden
June 2, 2022
October 2004 Arms Control in Print
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OF SPECIAL INTEREST

Nokkentved, N.S. “Death Rides the Wind: Downwinders Decry Prospect of Renewed Nuclear Testing,” The [ Provo, Utah] Daily Herald, September 6, 2004.

I. STRATEGIC ARMS CONTROL

Medalia, Jonathan. “Bunker Busters: Sources of Confusion in the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator Debate,” Congressional Research Service, September 22, 2004.

Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. “Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Preventing and Defending Against Clandestine Nuclear Attack,” June 2004, p.1.

“ Russia Carried 130 Nuclear Tests in Arctic Range Over 50 Years,” Interfax-AVN Moscow, September 17, 2004.

II. PROLIFERATION

Gertz, Bill. “ Treachery: How America's Friends and Foes Are Secretly Arming Our Enemies,” Washington Times. September 10, 2004, p.1.

Linzer, Dafna and Craig Timberg. “S. African’s Arrest Seen as Key to Nuclear Black

Market,” The Washington Post, September 4, 2004, p. A26.

Weisman, Steven. “In Stricter Study, U.S. Scales Back Claim on Cuba Arms,” The New York Times, September 18, 2004.

IRAN

Ben-David, Alon. “Iran Unveils Redesigned Shahab Missile,” Jane’s Defense Weekly, September 29, 2003, p. 6.

Boot, Max. “Bush Can’t Afford Inaction on Iran,” Los Angeles Times, September 9, 2004.

Grier, Peter and Faye Bowers. “ New Cracks in Nuclear Containment,” The Christian Science Monitor, September 15, 2004.

Hoge, Warren. “ Pakistan’s Leader Says He May Need to Stay as Army Chief,” The New York Times, September 20, 2004.

Power, Jonathan. “ Israel’s Nukes Serve to Justify Iran’s,” International Herald Tribune, September 22, 2004.

Russell, Richard L. “ Iran in Iraq’s Shadow,” Parameters, Autumn 2004, pp.31-45.

Sanger, David E. “Bush and Musharraf Talk, Skirting Army Role,” The New York Times, September 23, 2004, p.A17.

Schmitt, Eric. “Pentagon Office in Spying Case Was Focus of Iran Debate,” The New York Times, September 2, 2004.

Shaffer, Brenda. “If Iran is Not Checked, Nuclear Terror is Next,” International Herald Tribune, August 9, 2004.

Slavin, Barbara. “ Iran’s Nuke Plans May Be Unstoppable,” USA Today, August 29, 2004.

Weiseman, Seven R. “Bush Aides Divided on Confronting Iran Over A-Bomb,” The New York Times, September 21, 2004.

Will, George. “The Iranian Dilemma,” The Washington Post. September 23, 2004.

IRAQ

Jehl, Douglas. “Threats and Responses: Intelligence; C.I.A. Review is Crucial of Prewar Iraq Analysis,” The New York Times, September 22, 2004, p.21.

Obeidi, Mahdi. “Saddam, the Bomb and Me,” The New York Times, September 26, 2004.

NORTH KOREA

Grier, Peter and Faye Bowers. “New Cracks in Nuclear Containment,” Christian Science Monitor, September 15, 2004.

Sanger, David E. “ Kerry Says Bush Has Ignored North Korean Threat,” The New York Times. September 13, 2004.

SOUTH KOREA

Linzer, Dafna and Johee Cho. “S. Korea Acknowledges Secret Nuclear Experiments,” The Washington Post, September 3, 2004, p. A2.

PAKISTAN

Kristof, Nicholas D. “Twisting Dr. Nuke’s Arm,” The New York Times, September 25, 2004.

III. MISSILE DEFENSE

Boese, Wade. “Today’s Missile Defense: Worse Than Nothing?” Defense News, September 27, 2004, p.29.

Graham, Bradley. “Test of Missile Defense System Delayed Again,” The Washington Post, September 14, 2004.

Graham, Bradley. “Interceptor System Set, But Doubts Remain,” The Washington Post, September 29, 2004, p. A1.

Graham, Bradley. “ North Korea Is Used to Justify System,” The Washington Post, September 29, 2004, p. A17.

Graham, Bradley. “Pentagon’s Booster Project Veered Off Course,” The Washington Post, September 29, 2004.

FitzGerald , Frances . “Indefensible,” The New Yorker, October, 4, 2004, pp.33-34.

Kaplan, Fred. “Missile Defense: Mission Unaccomplished,” Slate, September 17, 2004.

Sirak, Michael. “The End Game,” Janes Defense Weekly, September 15, 2004, pp.24-29.

Poroskov, Nikolay. “Claim that US Intends to Deploy ABM Systems on Bases Close to Russia, Posing a Direct Threat to Russian Missiles,” Vremya Novosty, September 17, 2004.

IV. NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION

Allison, Graham. “Nuclear Nightmare Closer to Reality,” Baltimore Sun, September 10, 2004.

Baillot, Marion. “Official Questions IAEA’s Efficiency,” The Washington Times, October 1, 2004.

Bolton, John. “An All-Out War on Proliferation,” Financial Times, September 7, 2004, p.21.

Plate, Tom. “Until All Nuclear Nations Disarm, Others Will Lust After Same Power,” The Seattle Times, September 8, 2004.

V. NUCLEAR WEAPONS MATERIAL CONTROL

Blair, Bruce. “The Wrong Deterrence,” The Washington Post, September 19, 2004.

Bunn, Matthew and Anthony Wier. “Preventing a Nuclear 9/11,” The Washington Post. September 13, 2004.

Golovnina, Maria. “ Terror Exposes Threat to Russian Nuclear Sites,” Reuters, September 16, 2004.

VI. CONVENTIONAL ARMS CONTROL AND ARMS TRANSFERS

Behn, Sharon. “ U.S. to Build 8 Subs in Deal With Taiwan,” The Washington Times, September 29, 2004, p.B04.

Beidi, Rahul and Alon Ben-David. “ India and Israel Mull Missile Technology Co-Operation,” Jane’s Defense Weekly, September 8, 2004, p.7.

Kiyotani, Shinichi. “ Japan’s Defense Spending Soars,” Jane’s Defense Weekly. September 15, 2004, p.14.

Kucera, Joshua. “U.S. Offers to Sell F-16s to Pakistan,” Jane’s Defense Weekly, September 22, 2004, p. 4.

Kucera, Joshua. “Pakistan Plans to Buy More Ships and Boats,” Jane’s Defense Weekly, September 22, 2004, p.16.

VII. CHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS ISSUES

Hanley, Charles J. “ World's Chemical Arsenal Bulging, Terrifying” Los Angeles Times, September 26, 2004.

Oppenheimer, Andy. “Researching the weapons of the Future: Genetically Modified Bioweapons,” Jane’s Chem-BioWeb, September 14, 2004.

Zisser, Eyal. “ Syria and the Question of WMD,” Middle East Review of International Affairs, September 2004.

VIII. U.S. POLICY

Raghuvanshi, Vivek. “ U.S. Widens Export Road to India,” Defense News, September 27, 2004, pp.20.

Sherman, Jason. “America Needs Anti-Nuke Shield, Says Task Force,” Defense News, September 20, 2004, p.4.

IX. REGIONAL SECURITY ALLIANCES AND ISSUES

Heitman, Helmoed-Römer. “Forgotten ‘Wars:’ African Paramilitary Threats,” Jane’s Defense Weekly, pp.24-29.

Radzikhovskiy, Leonid. “Georgiophobia, or the Bench-Mark of Double Standards,” Izvestia, September 23, 2004 .