China Resisted Inquiry Into Their Aid of Pakistan’s Nuclear Program
March 5, 2004 :: National Security Archive :: News
The National Security Archive project at George Washington University has documented a number of previously classified documents which indicate that China was permitted to rebuff inquiries by the United States, over the course of three presidencies, into the nature of the Chinese assistance of Pakistan with their nuclear program.
The documents illustrating China’s refusal only confirm, however, what has been obvious for some time, that China aided Pakistan with their nuclear program in order to permit Pakistan to counterbalance India, which borders China and is their geopolitical rival. At another level, however, they serve as a reminder that the real roots of proliferation stem not from individuals working alone, such as A. Q. Kahn, but from regimes themselves—and not primarily “rogue states” but most especially from the major rivals and threats to America, Russia and China. The major threats, in other words, are not so “asymmetrical,” but rather “strategic.” (Article, Link)
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Asst. Sec. of State: Pakistan BMD May Promote Regional Stability
February 21, 2004 :: Pak Tribune :: News
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control Stephen Rademaker has said that Pakistani missile defense may, “in certain circumstances…contribute to regional stability.” Rademaker added that the “United States was ready to discuss the issue with Pakistan.”
In one sense, the truth of this statement is obvious. Missile defenses, properly balanced and carefully managed, could be a means by which to ease the nuclear missile standoff between Pakistan and India. All the difficulty would lie, of course, in the transfer from a sort of policy of mutually assured destruction to one of mutually assured defense: where defensive systems overcome offensive ones. In another sense, limited missile defenses may be used to level the current offensive strategic balance between the two rival countries. In general, however, the United States would probably do well to promote missile defenses the world over. All that can be done to undermine and destroy the perceived intrinsic superiority of offensive nuclear weapons to defensive ones is likely to be efforts well directed. (Article, Link)
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CIA Report on WMDs and Ballistic Missile Proliferation
November 10, 2003 :: CIA :: News
The CIA’s most recent intelligence estimate to Congress outlines the state of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile capabilities in a number of “countries of concern,” as well as continued proliferation by Russia, China, and North Korea. (More »»»)
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National Intelligence Estimate on the Foreign Ballistic Missile Threat
January 9, 2002 :: CIA :: News
The National Intelligence Council released the latest report on Foreign Missile Developments and the Ballistic Missile Threat Through 2015. The report concludes that the missile threat to the United States has increased since 1999 and that any future analyses of the missile threat must also include the threat posed by rogue nations and terrorist groups. (Article, Link)
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