Did Clinton Want to Lose the CTBT?
(Washington, D.C.): The level of incompetence exhibited by the Clinton Administration in its management and defense of the Comprehensive Test...
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Senator Lugar Rebuts False Charges of Partisanship and Isolationism in the C.T.B.T. Vote
(Washington, D.C.): There are few members of the U.S. Senate whose reputations can compare to that of Sen. Richard Lugar...
Take Russia’s ‘No’ for an Answer on Missile Defense
(Washington, D.C.): Here we go again. The Clinton Administration is once more trying to have it both ways on missile...
A.E.I. Postmortem Shows Senate Wisely Rejected C.T.B.T. — For Substantive Reasons, Not Due to Partisanship or ‘Isolationism’
(Washington, D.C.): The American Enterprise Institute performed a signal pubic service in the immediate aftermath of the Senate's defeat of...
Telling It Like It Was: Chairman Helms on the C.T.B.T. Vote
(Washington, D.C.): Traditionally, the history of great battles has been written by the victors. In the case of the Senate's...
George Will, Richard Perle Sing Senate Majority’s Praises For Courageous Vote Against the Defective C.T.B.T.
(Washington, D.C.): Amidst the echo chamber of Washington spinmeisters, members of the United States Senate -- to say nothing of...
Neither Isolationists Nor Fools, By Richard PerleThe New York Times, 19 October 1999
"Isolationism" and "partisanship" were the names, "reckless" and "dangerous" the characterizations with which a stunned Clinton Administration and much of...
Politics and the Test Ban Treaty, By George F. Will, Newsweek, 20 October 1999
President Clinton, whose cynicism never loses its power to astonish, put on a long face and, with that tone of...
A New Skepticism on Arms Control, By James T. HackettThe Washington Times, 18 October 1999
The Senate vote on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) was more than just the defeat of a flawed agreement,...
Fumble on the Test Ban Treaty By Richard Burt The Washington Post, 18 October 1999
The rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty is indeed a debacle for American foreign policy, but the blame lies...
One Treaty Doesn’t Fit All
By Robert M. Gates
New York Times, 13 October 1999
The poisonously partisan debate over the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty this week should prompt a re-evaluation of the American approach...
The End of Arms Control as We Have Known It
(Washington, D.C.): An extraordinarily important, emerging reality is for the moment being obscured by the vitriol and frenzied misrepresentations emanating...
Clinton Legacy Watch # 43: Hard Questions About Effort to Bribe Russia into Amending the A.B.M. Treaty
(Washington, D.C.): Fresh from its problematic efforts to purchase North Korean restraint on the development of threatening long-range ballistic missiles,...
Clinton’s ‘Big Lies’ on the Senate’s Rejection of the C.T.B.T.
"The great masses of the people...will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one." Adolf...
Senate Majority’s Defeat of C.T.B.T. Represents Triumph of Sound Security Policy Over Placebo Arms Control
Senator Lott Deserves Great Credit for Securing Vote (Washington, D.C.): Last night's action by a majority of the United States...
SENATOR LOTT’S REASONS FOR OPPOSING THE C.T.B.T.
(Excerpts from the Majority Leader's Senate Floor Statement of October 8) "The CTBT is itself seriously flawed in many ways,...