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Antiwar.com
January 19, 2018
But McMaster's claims about North Korean chemical and nuclear weapons proliferation were irrelevant to a first strike, and spurious. ... His failure to offer even a pretense of a real rationale for such an unprovoked attack stands in sharp contrast to the Bush administration's assiduous preparation of aÃÂ ...
Truthdig
January 18, 2018
But McMaster's claims about North Korean chemical and nuclear weapons proliferation were irrelevant to a first strike, and spurious. ... McMaster's allusion to the alleged North Korean proliferation of a nuclear reactor involves a 2007 claim Israel's Mossad gave to the George W. Bush administration about aÃÂ ...
The National Interest Online
January 18, 2018
The draft NPR also seeks to add two new nuclear weapons to the American arsenal and would significantly lower the threshold for nuclear use. Sadly ... In contrast, past documents have talked about how arms control can enhance strategic stability and strengthen the global norms against proliferation andÃÂ ...
LobeLog
January 16, 2018
But if this “flaw” is not quickly put in proper perspective, the issue could help undermine one of the most important non-proliferation achievements of our era. ... He called for Congress to state explicitly that “long-range missiles and nuclear weapons programs are inseparable, and that Iran's development andÃÂ ...
New Statesman
January 12, 2018
Reframing the use of nuclear weapons in this way would be a great mistake – and one that has been made before. Instead, confidence-building measures, bilateral engagements, and verified de-escalation negotiations as part of a global nuclear non-proliferation leadership strategy is where the U.S. andÃÂ ...
HuffPost
January 11, 2018
The commitment to total nuclear disarmament was a major departure from the George W. Bush administration — the first time, in fact, that the United States ... The logic of those pushing for the development of smaller nukes is that our current nuclear weapons are too big and too deadly to ever use; we areÃÂ ...
The Hill
December 29, 2017
But now there is a new wrinkle concerning Iran: Tehran is an apparent partner in proliferation with North Korea. Iran can get around the “sunset provision” of refraining from a nuclear weapons breakout for 10 years after the commitment was made among the parties to the 2015 nuclear deal: Tehran wouldÃÂ ...
Newsweek
December 22, 2017
North Korea blasted President Donald Trump's recent "America First" national security strategy, insisting supreme leader Kim Jong Un would keep his nuclear weapons and refuse to bow to U.S. pressure. North Korea's Foreign Ministry issued Friday a scathing condemnation of Trump's debut strategy,ÃÂ ...
CBS News
December 31, 1999
But the Bush administration, suspecting that the North Koreans were cheating and developing a uranium program, began stepping back from the agreement. ... "The North Korea nuclear weapons program is a grave threat to the United States of America, and it's because the way that we're handling it couldÃÂ ...
HuffPost
December 31, 1999
In any case, if Pyongyang is inclined to further proliferate, why hasn't it done so while expanding its arsenal? Tillerson certainly would have released any evidence he possessed of nuclear sales. (Thankfully so far the administration has not followed the George W. Bush administration in offering a fancifulÃÂ ...
Aiken Standard
October 4, 2017
Here's one: the enormous threat posed by nuclear weapons to our planet ... Arms reduction and non-proliferation policies help but are no solution. ... This is not about Trump, or Obama, or Bush or Clinton – it's about America,ÃÂ ...
The Hindu
October 4, 2017
I admit we didn't succeed.. but during President George H.W. Bush's ... pursuing nuclear weapons programmes because of the Amendment.
Defense One
October 3, 2017
However delivered, tactical nuclear weapons get in the way of U.S. soldiers. ... after President George H.W. Bush ordered them removed in 1991, two ... over five decades to prevent proliferation and reduce nuclear dangers.
Daily Pioneer
October 2, 2017
It was signed by then US President George Herbert Walker Bush. It briefly halted the spread of nuclear weapons in the 90s. The man is alsoÃÂ ...
Ocala
September 23, 2017
Nuclear proliferation, over the years, has slowly been brought under ... In 1991, President George H.W. Bush removed all nuclear weaponsÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
September 19, 2017
President George H.W. Bush took unilateral action, removing U.S. nuclear weapons and reducing America's troop levels in the region, hopingÃÂ ...
Sky News Australia
September 9, 2017
Globally 105 countries are involved in the Proliferation Security Initiative, launched in 2003 by US President George W. Bush. ... to test nuclear weapons only serves to heighten our sense of purpose in stopping proliferation.'.
Pacific Standard
August 17, 2017
With this build-up of nuclear weapons has come more bombastic rhetoric. ... the Bush administration had left the U.S. nuclear non-proliferationÃÂ ...
Daily Pakistan
August 15, 2017
Being signatory to Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, North Korea's ... Pyongyang may never use nuclear weapons against South Korea or the US as the ... Due to the weak diplomatic will of George W Bush and Barack Obama,ÃÂ ...
Left Foot Forward
August 15, 2017
This happened when the Bush White House invaded Iraq after ... The US deployed nuclear weapons in and around South Korea until ... This new Nuclear Prohibition Treaty goes further than the 1968 non-proliferation treatyÃÂ ...
Yale News
August 15, 2017
On the one hand, nuclear weapons are the world's most destructive weapons. ... People naturally worry when they read about nuclear proliferation in the ... The Bush administration took a harder line on North Korea than hadÃÂ ...
Scientific American (blog)
August 13, 2017
An historian of science who specializes in nuclear weapons, .... been in the works since at least the second Bush administration, arguably earlier. ... and that potentially endangers aspects of the non-proliferation regime (whichÃÂ ...
Business Insider
August 11, 2017
Pyongyang repeatedly used potential nuclear weapons as a ... After Bush won, Clinton's staff briefed incoming Secretary of State Colin ... It became the first nation to officially leave the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty on AprilÃÂ ...
The Daily Banter
August 10, 2017
The Roots Of Trump And North Korea Can Be Traced To Bush And Iraq ... The DPRK had been a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty until ... and announced several months later that they had nuclear weapons.
WIRED
August 10, 2017
Presidents have spoken with force before—George W. Bush, for example, ... But when it comes to national security and nuclear weapons, presidents ... executive director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.
PolitiFact
August 10, 2017
... Bill Clinton for giving North Korea the means to make nuclear weapons ... pull out of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,ÃÂ ...
The Intercept
July 29, 2017
In celebrating Libya's decision, President George W. Bush declared that the rest ... and it didn't “give them a lot of incentive to give up their nuclear weapons. ... It's not because we fear that they will use WMD in a first strike on us, since ... the effects of the proliferation of ballistic missiles and weapons of massÃÂ ...
The Kingston Whig-Standard
July 27, 2017
KINGSTON - President George W. Bush didn't think much of his ... between the governments that pursued WMD [Weapons of Mass Destruction] and the ... activities as well as the proliferation of nuclear weapons technology.
The Economist
December 31, 1999
MURDEROUS, thin-skinned and in possession of nuclear weapons, the ... When battling the proliferation of the deadliest weapons, sanctions are ... H.W. Bush in 1991, as a prelude to talks with North Korea two years later.
Tampabay.com
December 31, 1999
The George W. Bush administration cut off fuel oil shipments in 2002, and ... The president can use nuclear weapons with a single verbal order.
CBS News
December 31, 1999
1985 - North Korea signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NTP), after U.S. spy satellites detect possible construction of a nuclear weapons program. ... 2002 - The George W. Bush administration confronts North KoreaÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy Journal
March 24, 2017
These are the nations that will be working hard to defeat and disrupt the treaty negotiations beginning Monday in New York to ban nuclear weapons. They are also the nations whose ... Each overthrow that the U.S. leads, including those in Iraq and Libya ...
Albuquerque Journal
March 24, 2017
And yet, even though President Barack Obama pledged to "break that pattern" of North Korea getting away with belligerent behavior, and President George W. Bush compared the country's dictatorship to a toddler who throws food on the floor, the sad truth ...
CSS Resources (blog)
March 23, 2017
In 1990, Bush and Baker promised Gorbachev they would transform NATO from a military alliance into a political organization and reform the CSCE into the main European security forum.
KITV Honolulu
March 23, 2017
February 13 - North Korea agrees to close its main nuclear reactor in exchange for an aid package worth $400 million. September 30 - At six-party talks in Beijing, North Korea signs an agreement stating it will begin disabling its nuclear weapons ...
Science Magazine
March 22, 2017
And in December 2016 the Pentagon's Defense Science Board recommended resurrecting small, low-yield nuclear weapons of the sort that were eliminated from the U.S.
U.S. News & World Report
March 21, 2017
If Trump is unwilling, or incapable, of dealing with this Russian move to re-deploy ground-based intermediate-range nuclear weapons capable of reaching European cities, then we all should hope that GOP congressional leaders who understand what's at ...
Buenos Aires Herald
March 18, 2017
The United States could also field the same THAAD missile-defence system in Japan that it is now installing in South Korea or take the potentially provocative stop of reinstalling US nuclear weapons at US bases in South Korea. The North Korean threat ...
The Ledger
March 18, 2017
In Europe, there's increased talk of a European Union nuclear weapons program that would refocus France's arsenal to protect the rest of Europe and operate under a common European command.
fox6now.com
March 17, 2017
The U.S. may take pre-emptive military action against North Korea if it continues to ramp up its nuclear weapons program, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned Friday from South Korea.
European Leadership Network
March 15, 2017
Former Ambassador for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Former Chairman of the Missile Technology Control Regime ... Just like George W. Bush during the first months of his mandate, Donald Trump seems primarily preoccupied in deconstructing what was ...
TeenVogue.com
March 13, 2017
North Korea joined the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), an agreement that states countries with nuclear weapons will work toward getting rid of them, and countries without nuclear weapons won't acquire them, in 1985. But it didn't ...
KPAX-TV
March 6, 2017
"By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger," he says. October - The Bush Administration reveals that North Korea has admitted operating a secret nuclear weapons program in violation of the 1994 agreement.
The Guardian
March 6, 2017
The purported justifications for war - preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, enforcing international law, fighting terrorism - were "mandatory rhetoric", nothing more.
WTOP
March 5, 2017
On March 5, 1867, the Fenian Rebellion took place in Ireland as thousands of members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood launched an attempt at overthrowing British rule; the poorly-organized rising was swiftly put down by British and Irish authorities.
Island Packet
March 4, 2017
In 1970, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons went into effect after 43 nations ratified it. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter took questions from 42 telephone callers in 26 states on a network radio ... inferno, killing some three ...
Altus Times
March 4, 2017
In 1970, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons went into effect after 43 nations ratified it. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter took questions from 42 telephone callers in 26 states on a network radio call-in ... President George W. Bush ...
Topeka Capital Journal
March 4, 2017
Here are a few unflattering comparisons: Obama (64 percent), Bush II (59 percent), Clinton (55 percent) and Bush I (63 percent).
New York Times
March 3, 2017
But Mr. Trump has called for proliferating high-priced assets such as aircraft carriers and nuclear weapons without always articulating a specific goal, suggesting he sees them as ends in themselves.
Breaking Defense
March 2, 2017
H.R. McMaster, President Trump's newly appointed National Security Advisor, must ensure the new administration reverses a decades-old pattern of neglecting Iran's nuclear-capable cruise missile capabilities and their importance to Iran's nuclear ...
