Wisdom of Senate Rejection of C.T.B.T. Confirmed as ‘Alternative to Testing’ Runs into Technical, Political Trouble
(Washington, D.C.): A hardy perennial of the sales job for President Clinton's Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) has been that...
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Bipartisan Group of Thirty-two Members of Congress Joins Rising Chorus for the ‘AEGIS Option’ on Missile Defense
(Washington, D.C.): On 14 December, thirty-two Republican and Democratic legislators led by Rep. David Vitter (R-LA) wrote Secretary of Defense...
Clinton Dare Not Gut Funding for Sea-Based Missile Defenses in Light of Strong Senate Support for the ‘AEGIS Option’
(Washington, D.C.): Clinton Administration officials intent on slashing the budget for the Navy's sea-based missile defense program were put on...
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December 6, 1999 The Honorable William S. Cohen Secretary of Defense 1000 Defense Pentagon Washington D.C. 20301-1000 Dear Secretary Cohen:...
Will Clinton-Gore Get Away with Killing the Most Promising Near-term Missile Defense System — The AEGIS Option?
(Washington, D.C.): Published press reports indicate that the Clinton Pentagon is actively considering seven options that would remove up to...
Kissinger Rebuts Clinton & Co.’s Claim that C.T.B.T. Was Defeated by Partisan Politics, Isolationists
(Washington, D.C.): In the wake of the United States Senate's decisive rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) last...
Clinton Lets Trade Trump Security, Again
(Washington, D.C.): The World Trade Organization meeting that opens tomorrow in Seattle will provide an unparalleled backdrop for demonstrations by...
‘It’s U.S. Security, Stupid’
(Washington, D.C.): In 1980, Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan posed a single question with devastating effect for Jimmy Carter's reelection...
Memo to ‘W’: You Can’t Get to a Missile Defense Via the A.B.M. Treaty
(Washington, D.C.): Up in Maine, where the Bush family has long vacationed, there is an old joke about a native...
Bill Clinton, ‘New Isolationist’?
The U.S. Needs a Missile Defense That Defends its Allies, Too
(Washington, D.C.): As the worm turns! In the wake of the U.S. Senate's crushing rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban...
Defending the Senate’s Constitutional Prerogatives: Lott is Right, Clinton-Albright Wrong on the Status of the C.T.B.T.
(Washington, D.C.): Subsequent to the Senate's crushing rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) on 13 October, President Clinton,...
1999 Keeper of the Flame Award: Jim Jones
In the company of over 350 fellow military officers, top legislators and congressional staff, executive branch officials (past and present),...
Wrong Again: Scowcroft and Kanter’s Advice on ‘Fixing the C.T.B.T.’ Won’t Do the Job
(Washington, D.C.): In yesterday's Washington Times, two prominent officials of the Bush Administration -- former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft...
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...
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...