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...
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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,...
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...
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...
C.T.B.T. Truth or Consequences #5: Opposition to a Zero-Yield, Permanent Test Ban’s is Rooted in Substance, Not Politics
(Washington, D.C.): Advocates for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) have recently engaged in a form of political contortionism that...
Investors Beware: China National Petroleum’s Wall Street IPO Bid Won’t Fly on National Security and Human Rights Grounds
(Washington, D.C.): U.S. investment banks and fund managers should by now be persuaded that they must adopt a new, security-minded...
Senator Lugar Delivers Kiss-of-Death to C.T.B.T
(Washington, D.C.): As the Senate prepares to open debate on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), arms control's preeminent Republican...
Next Shoe to Drop in Clinton’s Ominous Caribbean Initiative
(Washington, D.C.): In recent weeks a troubling pattern has emerged in the Clinton-Gore Administration's conduct of relations towards the Caribbean,...
Richard Perle Dissects the Failed History of Arms Control — and Its Even More Dubious Prospects for the Future
(Washington, D.C.): Former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle recently bearded the lion (or, should we say "the lamb"?) in...
Clinton as the Anti-Reagan: Appeasement of North Korea Would ‘End the Cold War’ by Capitulation, Not Roll-Back
(Washington, D.C.): Amidst the many, pathetic explanations served up by Clinton Administration spokesmen to rationalize, if not explain, its latest...
A Test Ban That Disarms Us
When it comes to nuclear testing, nations will act in their perceived self-interest. By Charles Krauthammer Some debates just never...
‘Excuse Fatigue’: Clinton-Gore’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Policy Toward Yeltsin, Russian Corruption Won’t Fly
(Washington, D.C.): Vice President Al Gore's pollsters tell him his campaign for the presidency is suffering from "Clinton Fatigue." An...
Message to Wall Street and Pennsylvania Avenue: Bank of New York’s Russian Debacle is but a Symptom of a Larger Problem
(Washington, D.C.): With breath-taking speed, the scandal described by the New York Times as "one of the biggest money-laundering operations...
Chairman Spence Warns of Perils for America’s Strategic Equities in New U.S.-Russian Negotiations, ‘Grand Bargain’
(Washington, D.C.): Tomorrow, a U.S. delegation will begin negotiations in Moscow aimed at achieving what outgoing Clinton National Security Council...