Spring on Bush’s Commitment to Deploy
December 19, 2002 :: The Heritage Foundation :: Analysis
Baker Spring of the Heritage Foundation on Bush’s recent announcement of his decision to deploy missile defenses by 2004. (Article, Link)
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Karako on Administration’s Deployment Decision
December 18, 2002 :: The Claremont Institute :: Analysis
Tom Karako of the Claremont Institute on the Bush administration’s decision to deploy the GMD by 2004-2005. Despite the system’s limitations, this marks a great step forward. (Article, Link)
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» Missile system details for: Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD)
Bush Statement: Missile Defenses to be Deployed by 2004-2005
December 17, 2002 :: The White House :: News
The White House issued a statement by the president announcing that he had ordered the Department of Defense to deploy missile defenses by 2004-2005. (Article, Link)
» DoD Press Release, outlining deployment
» DoD Deployment briefing
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Ambassador Cooper: the Danger from a Ship-Based Missile Attack and the Proper Response
October 1, 2002 :: Marshall Institute :: Analysis
Ambassador Henry Cooper delivered a paper at a conference hosted by the Marshall Institute, discussing the threat from ship-launched ballistic missiles by rogue regimes or terrorists, and the proper and creative thinking necessary (and newly possible, after the withdrawal from the ABM Treaty) to defend against such a threat. (Article, Link)
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Kennedy on the ABM Withdrawal
June 15, 2002 :: The Claremont Institute :: Analysis
Claremont Institute President Brian Kennedy on President George W. Bush’s announcement that the United States is withdrawing from the ABM Treaty. (Article, Link)
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ABM Not to be Re-Negotiated
February 19, 2002 :: U.S. Department of State :: News
Undersecretary of State John Bolton indicated to reporters in Moscow that the White House has no plans to implement a post-ABM treaty accord when the United States officially withdraws from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty this June:
“Well, we’ve just been through an extensive exercise with the Russians where we sought to find a mutually acceptable way to move beyond the constraints of the ABM Treaty. And we were not able to achieve that objective and the United States has announced its withdrawal. Having gone through that very elaborate process, I can assure you we are not about to begin a new process that would result in limits on our missile defense efforts.”
Bolton did however indicate the possibility of American cooperation with Moscow on missile defenses, which may be discussed in a May summit between the two countries. (Article, Link)
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Bush Pledges MD Support to Japan
February 18, 2002 :: U.S. Department of State :: News
Addressing the Japanese Parliament, President Bush vowed to develop missile defense systems to protect America’s allies in Asia, including South Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, and Australia: “To help protect the people of this region, and our friends and allies in every region, we will press on with an effective program of missile defenses.” (Article, Link)
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Bush State of Union Includes NMD Pledge
January 29, 2002 :: The White House :: News
In his annual State of the Union Address, President Bush pledged to “develop and deploy effective missile defenses to protect America and our allies from sudden attack. We’ll be deliberate, yet time is not on our side. I will not wait on events while dangers gather. I will not stand by as peril draws closer and closer. The United States of America will not permit the world’s most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world’s most destructive weapons.” (Article, Link)
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Bush Announcement of Intention to Withdraw from ABM Treaty
December 13, 2001 :: The White House :: News
Speaking in the Rose Garden with Vladimir Putin at his side, President Bush announced that the United States would be giving formal notice to Russia to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty made with the Soviet Union.
Today, I have given formal notice to Russia, in accordance with the treaty, that the United States of America is withdrawing from this almost 30 year old treaty. I have concluded the ABM treaty hinders our government’s ability to develop ways to protect our people from future terrorist or rogue state missile attacks. The 1972 ABM treaty was signed by the United States and the Soviet Union at a much different time, in a vastly different world. One of the signatories, the Soviet Union, no longer exists. And neither does the hostility that once led both our countries to keep thousands of nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert, pointed at each other. The grim theory was that neither side would launch a nuclear attack because it knew the other would respond, thereby destroying both.
(Article, Link)
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Kennedy on U.S. Withdrawal from ABM Treaty
December 12, 2001 :: The Claremont Institute :: Analysis
Claremont Institute President Brian Kennedy praises Bush for announcing the withdrawal of the ABM Treaty, but also looks toward the long road ahead. (Article, Link)
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