Of Special Interest
Shambroom, Paul. Face to Face with the Bomb: Nuclear Reality After the Cold War, John Hopkins University Press, 2003, 121 pp.
I. Strategic Arms Control
Kucia, Christine. “U.S. Produces First Plutonium Pit Since 1989,” Arms Control Today, May 2003, p. 35.
II. Missile Defense
“Missile Defense: Alternate Approaches to Space Tracking and Surveillance System Need to Be Considered,” U.S. General Accounting Office, May 2003, 34 pp.
Boese, Wade. “More Realistic Missile Defense Testing Could Begin in 2005,” Arms Control Today, May 2003, p. 33.
Boese, Wade. “Patriot Scorecard Mixed; PAC-3 Use Limited,” Arms Control Today, May 2003, p. 33.
III. WMD Proliferation
ElBaradei, Mohamed. “Pre-emption Is Not the Model,” The Washington Post, April 23, 2003, p. A35.
Gordon, Rose. “North Korea, Pakistani Lab Sanctioned for Proliferation,” Arms Control Today, May 2003, p. 35.
Iran
Crawford, David. “How Hunch May Have Hindered the Nuclear Ambitions of Iran,” The Wall Street Journal, May 6, 2003, p. A1.
Takeyh, Ray. “Iran’s Nuclear Skeptics,” The Washington Post, April 25, 2003, p. A23.
Iraq
Boese, Wade. “U.S. Issued Warning on Threat of Possible Iraqi WMD Use,” Arms Control Today, May 2003, p. 34.
Gertz, Bill. “U.S. Sees Proof of Biological Arms Program,” The Washington Times, May 8, 2003, p. A1.
Kerr, Paul. “Troops Search for Weapons in Iraq; UN Debates Sanctions,” Arms Control Today, May 2003, p. 31.
Martin, Paul. “Papers Suggest ‘Active’ Program of Illicit Arms,” The Washington Times, May 8, 2003, p. A1.
Pincus, Walter and Michael Dobbs. “Suspected Bioweapon Mobile Lab Recovered,” The Washington Post, May 7, 2003, p. A1.
Schack, Daniel. “Congress Approves $79 Billion Supplemental War Budget,” Arms Control Today, May 2003, p. 41.
Taylor, Guy. “Final Tests Find No Nerve Agents in Iraqi Chemical,” The Washington Times, May 2, 2003, p. A3.
North Korea
“Recommendations for U.S.-Korea Policy,” Arms Control Today, May 2003, pp. 43-46.
“Undersecretary of State Bolton Speaks With ACT,” Arms Control Today, May 2003, pp. 28-30.
Gertz, Bill. “North Korea May Export Nukes,” The Washington Times, May 7, 2003, p. A1.
Gottemoeller, Rose. “A Deal That Worked,” The New York Times, April 26, 2003, p. A29.
Gill, Bates and Andrew Thompson. “A Test for Beijing: China and the North Korean Nuclear Quandary,” Arms Control Today, May 2003, pp. 12-14.
Kamiya, Matake. “A Disillusioned Japan Confronts North Korea,” Arms Control Today, May 2003, pp. 19-22.
Katz, Jonathan M. “Key U.S. Officials in the North Korean Nuclear Standoff,” Arms Control Today, May 2003, pp. 26-27.
Kerr, Paul. “North Korea, U.S. Meet; Pyongyang Said to Claim Nukes,” Arms Control Today, May 2003, pp. 23-24.
Kerr, Paul. “North Korea’s Uranium-Enrichment Efforts Shrouded in Mystery,” Arms Control Today, May 2003, p. 25.
Kessler, Glenn. “U.S. Officials Spar Over N. Korea,” The Washington Post, April 27, 2003, p. A11.
Kimball, Daryl G. “North Korea: What’s Next?” Arms Control Today, May 2003, p. 2.
Paik, Haksoon. “Steering Between Red Lines,” Arms Control Today, May 2003, pp. 15-18.
Romberg, Alan D. and Michael D. Swaine. “The North Korea Nuclear Crisis: A Strategy for Negotiation,” Arms Control Today, May 2003, pp. 3-7.
Sokolski, Henry. “Pyongyang: The Case for Nonproliferation With Teeth,” Arms Control Today, May 2003, pp. 8-11.
Solomon, Jay and Murray Hiebert. “Some Speak of Pyongyang Blockade,” The Wall Street Journal, May 5, 2003, p. A13.
Syria
Boese, Wade. “Syria’s Weapons of Mass Destruction,” Arms Control Today, May 2003, p. 32.
Kerr, Paul. “Top U.S. Officials Voice Concern About Syria’s WMD Capability,” Arms Control Today, May 2003, pp. 32-33.
IV. Nuclear Nonproliferation
“Information Paper from the United States Concerning Article VI of the NPT,” Distributed by Office of International Information Programs, May 1, 2003.
Keller, Bill. “The Thinkable,” The New York Times Magazine, May 4, 2003, pp. 48-53, 84, 94, 101.
Kucia, Christine. “CTBTO Head Visits Russian Nuclear Test Site,” Arms Control Today, May 2003, p. 37.
Kucia, Christine. “NPT to Tackle Tough Questions in May,” Arms Control Today, May 2003, p. 38.
V. Threat Reduction
Kuperman, Alan J. “Loose Nukes of the West,” The Washington Post, May 7, 2003, p. A31.
VI. Chemical/Biological Weapons Issues
Boyd, Kerry. “CWC Members Meet to Review Progress, Goals,” Arms Control Today, May 2003, p. 38.
Boyd, Kerry. “Military Authorized to Use Riot Control Agents in Iraq,” Arms Control Today, May 2003, p. 36.
Boyd, Kerry. “U.S. Begins Destroying Mustard Agent in Maryland,” Arms Control Today, May 2003, p. 36.
Wade, Nicholas. “Anthrax Is Found Similar to Common Soil Bacterium,” The New York Times, May 1, 2003, p. A18.
VII. Arms Transfers
“Indonesia Orders Sukhoi Fighters,” DefenseNews, May 5, 2003, p. 26.
Karniol, Robert. “Japan Edges Closer to Russian Nuclear-Submarine Agreement,” Jane’s Defence Weekly, April 23, 2003, p. 14.
Saw, David. “Malaysia, Singapore Plan Several Arms Deals,” DefenseNews, May 5, 2003, p. 20.
VIII. U.S. Policy
Nuclear Weapons Policy
Blair, Bruce. “We Keep Building Nukes for All the Wrong Reasons,” The Washington Post, May 25, 2003, p. B1.
Dao, James. “Panel Rejects Nuclear Arms of Small Yield,” The New York Times, May 15, 2003, p. A22.
Dewar, Helen. “Nuclear Weapons Development Tied to Hill Approval,” The Washington Post, May 22, 2003, p. A5.
Guggenheim, Ken. “Senate Panel Votes to Lift Ban on Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons,” The Boston Globe, May 10, 2003, p. A4.
Kimball, Daryl. “Making Nuclear Weapons More Usable?” DefenseNews, May 26, 2003, p. 29.
Richter, Paul. “Door Opened for New Era of Nuclear Arms,” The Los Angeles Times, May 10, 2003, p. A1.
Scoblic, J. Peter. “Nuclear Weapons We Don’t Need,” The Washington Post, May 14, 2003, p. A29.
Sterngold, James. “Senate Backs Off on Small Nuclear Warheads,” The San Francisco Chronicle, May 22, 2003, p. A4.
Thompson, Mark. “Bush’s New Nuclear Push,” Time, May 26, 2003, p. 22..
IX. Regional Security Alliances and Issues
South Asia
Lakshmi, Rama. “U.S. Envoy Lauds India for New Peace Initiative,” The Washington Post, May 11, 2003, p. A16.