‘New Isolationism’ is a Bum Rap
(Washington, D.C.): The Clinton Administration and its allies are intensifying their efforts to paint those who oppose the "aggressive multilateralism,"appeasement...
National Security Policy
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...
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’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...
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,...
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,...
Vote — and Defeat — the C.T.B.T. Today
(Washington, D.C.): The Senate is, at present, scheduled to vote on the fatally flawed Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) late...
C.T.B.T. Truth or Consequences #7: Realistic Explosive Testing is Required to ‘Remanufacture’ Existing Nuclear Weapons
(Washington, D.C.): One of the most pernicious misrepresentations being served up in recent days by the proponents of the Comprehensive...
C.T.B.T. Truth or Consequences #2: This Treaty is Unverifiable — It May Make Monitoring Others’ Nuke Programs More Difficult
(Washington, D.C.): In a daily drumbeat of remarks aimed at selling the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) to an unreceptive...