Of Special Interest
Committee on Research Standards and Practices to Prevent the Destructive Application of Biotechnology, Development, Security, and Cooperation, Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism: Confronting the “Dual Use” Dilemma, National Research Council of the National Academies. October 2003, 180 pp.
Verification, Research, Training and Information Centre, Iraqi Weapons Inspections Database, www.vertic.org/onlinedatabase/unmovic/dsp_unmovicBackground.cfm.
Yarynich, Valery, C3: Nuclear Command, Control, Cooperation, Center for Defense Information, 2003, 291 pp.
I. STRATEGIC ARMS CONTROL
Hebert, Adam J. “The Future Missile Force,” Air Force Magazine, October 2003, pp. 64-68.
Saradzhyan, Simon. “Putin Beefs Up ICBM Capacity,” Moscow Times, October 3, 2003.
II. PROLIFERATION
Canadian Security Intelligence Service.“Weapons Proliferation and the Military-Industrial Complex of the PRC,” Summer 2003.
Frantz, Douglas. “Israel Adds Fuel to Nuclear Dispute,” The Los Angeles Times, October 12, 2003, p. A1.
Robbins, Carla Anne. “Why U.S. Gave U.N. No Role in Plan to Halt Arms Ships,” The Wall Street Journal, October 21, 2003, p. 1.
IRAQ
Bonner, Raymond and Ian Fisher. “At Iraqi Depot, Missiles Galore and No Guards,” The New York Times, October 17, 2003, p. 1.
Cloud, David S. “Memo May Aid Leak Probe,” The Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2003, p. A4.
Drogin, Bob. “Experts Downplay Bioagent,” The Los Angeles Times, October 17, 2003, p. A1.
Gellman, Barton. “Search in Iraq Fails to Find Nuclear Threat,” The Washington Post, October 26, 2003. p. A1.
Gertz, Bill and Stephen Dinan. “Iraq Paid N. Korea to Deliver Missiles,” The Washington Times, October 4, 2003, p. A1.
Hersh, Seymour M. “The Stovepipe,” The New Yorker, October 27, 2003, pp. 77-87.
Pincus, Walter and Dana Priest. “Hussein’s Weapons May Have Been Bluff,” The Washington Post, October 1, 2003, p. A14.
Powell, Colin. “What Kay Found,” The Washington Post, October 7, 2003, p. A25.
Priest, Dana. “Democrats Seek a Wider Inquiry,” The Washington Post, October 25, 2003. p. A6.
Risen, James and Judith Miller. “Officials Say Bush Seeks $600 Million to Hunt Iraq Arms,” The New York Times, October 2, 2003, p. A1.
Schmitt, Eric and Douglas Jehl. “Weapons Searchers May Switch to Security,” The New York Times, October 29, 2003.
Strobel, Warren P. and Jonathan S. Landay. “Use of Dubious Tip Points to Clash Between CIA, Iraq War Supporters.” The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 19, 2003.
Thielmann, Gregg and Daryl G. Kimball. “Time for Reckoning,” The Baltimore Sun, October 21, 2003, p. A16.
Will, George. “Can’t They Just Admit It?” The Washington Post, October 2, 2003, A23.
NORTH KOREA
Efron, Sonni. “Nuclear Waiting Game Called Risky,” The Los Angeles Times, October 3, 2003, p. 4.
Efron, Sonni. “Previous Pacts May Inspire Deal on N. Korea,” The Los Angeles Times, October 22, 2003, p. 3.
Hamburger, Tom. “In Asia, Bush to Encourage Renewed North Korea Talks,” The Wall Street Journal, October 14, 2003.
IRAN
Lugar, Richard G. “Slap Iran With Stiff Inspections,” The Los Angeles Times, October 24, 2003.
Nye, Joseph. “Iranian Ambitions Call for a United Reaction,” The Financial Times, October 27, 2003. p. 23.
Ramberg, Bennett. “Heading Off a Nuclear Iran,” The Baltimore Sun, October 10, 2003, A15.
Slavin, Barbara. “Think Tank Study Warns That Iran Is Close to Having Nuclear Arsenal,” USA Today, October 1, 2003, p. A8.
III. MISSILE DEFENSE
Graham, Bradley. “U.S. Controls Hamper Foreign Role in Missile Defense,” The Washington Post, October 19, 2003, p. A27.
Hill, Luke. “NATO Selects Team to Study Missile Defence,” Jane’s Defence Weekly, October 8, 2003, p. 4.
Kington, Tom. “Hurdles Slow U.S.-Europe Missile Defense,” Defense News, October 6, 2003, p. 10
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Singer, Jeremy. “U.S. Expects Review to Back Patriot Claim,” Defense News, October 13, 2003, p. 30.
Sirak, Michael. “U.S. Details Boost-Phase Interceptor Plans,” Jane’s Defence Weekly, September 10, 2003, p. 12.
IV. NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION
ElBaradei, Mohamed. “Towards a Safer World,” The Economist, October 18, 2003, pp. 47-48.
Smith, R. Jeffrey. “Measure Would Alter Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy,” The Washington Post, October 4, 2003, p. A2.
V. CONVENTIONAL ARMS CONTROL AND ARMS TRANSFERS
Ivanov, Henry. “Russia Chasing Asian Markets,” Jane’s Defence Weekly, October 15, 2003, p. 18.
Kahwaji, Riad. “Kuwait to Fly Latest Version of Apache,” Defense News, October 13, 2003, p. 56.
Mulholland, David. “Majority of Arms Go to the Developing World,” Jane’s Defence Weekly, October 8, 2003, p. 20.
Novichkov, Nikolai. “Record Russian Arms Sales Expected in 2003,” Jane’s Defence Weekly, October 8, 2003, p. 20.
Opall-Rome, Barbara. “Israel Air Force to Buy More Apache Longbows,” Defense News, October 6, 2003, p. 44.
VI. CHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS ISSUES
“GAO Finds Terror Gear Easy to Buy,” The Washington Times, October 8, 2003, p. A4.
Kutz Gregory D., Keith A. Rhodes, and John Ryan. DOD Excess Property: Risk Assessment Needed on Public Sales of Equipment That Could Be Used to Make Biological Agents, Government Accounting Office, October 7, 2003. 29 pp.
Wade, Nicholas. “Science Panel Urges Review of Research Terrorists Could Use,” The New York Times, October 9, 2003, p. A1.
VII. U.S. POLICY
Kessler, Glenn and Peter Slevin. “Rice Fails to Repair Rifts, Officials Say,” The Washington Post, October 12, 2003, p. A1.
Mansfield, Duncan. “Tenn. Plant to Make Energy, Bomb Material,” Associated Press Online, October 6, 2003.
Seib, Gerald F. “A Bush Doctrine Is Put in Jeopardy by Weapons Hunt,” The Wall Street Journal, October 8, 2003.
VIII. Regional Security Alliances and issues
NATO
Barnett, Neil et al. “The Newcomers,” Jane’s Defence Weekly, October 15, 2003, pp. 21-27.
Hill, Luke. “New NATO Head Sets Course for Stormy Waters,” Jane’s Defence Weekly, October 1, 2003, p. 3.
SOUTH ASIA
Bedi, Rahul. “India Courts More Missile Help From Israel,” Jane’s Defence Weekly, October 1, 2003, p. 4.
Feickert, Andrew and K. Alan Kronstadt. Missile Proliferation and the Strategic Balance in South Asia, Congressional Research Service, October 17, 2003. 38 pp.
Haven, Paul. “Islamabad Test-Fires Nuclear-Capable Missile,” The Washington Times, October 4, 2003, p. A7.
Ratnam, Gopal and Vivek Raghuvanshi. “Patriot Threatens Indo-Pak Balance,” Defense News, October 13, 2003, p. 1.