... n B. Rhinelander is senior counsel a t Shaw Pittm an, Washington, D .C ., an d former legal advisor to the U .S. S A L T I delegation that negotiated the A B M Treaty. National Missile Defense and the ABM Treaty N o N eed to W reck the Accord Philip E...

... on Asian affairs and U.S. policy in Asia. The Missiles of North Korea How Real a Threat? SeligS. Harrison Returning from a presidential mission to United States lead to negotiations on limit­ North Korea in September 1999, former ing or ending its missile program. defense...

... the physical cipal threat today isthe use of long-range equipment.4 missiles by rogue states for purposes of ter­ Many experts argue that information ror, coercion, and aggression.”2 warfare directed against air traffic control, This dubious proposition— an article of the banking...

... adversary, irrationality for the current ABM debate are the two purposes were inextricably inter­ uncertain: defenses against rogue missiles, as twined, bound together by the concept of emphasized by the Clinton administration, “deterrence.” For most of those 40 years, seem desirable, but rogues may...

... to coerce Taiwan community” and using force to resolve dis­ with naval or air attacks short of an inva­ putes, especially with Taiwan. The report sion. China has several hundred ballistic does not predict which road China will missiles aimed at Taiwan, but unless Bei­ choose.3...

..., the administration failed to seek ratification of the landmines treaty or the treaty establishing an international criminal court. Republican leaders, seduced by the latest Star Wars concept, have urged the administration to go beyond research and possible deployment of a limited antiballistic missile system...

... last May, and our “mutual security deploying systems in space usable against need no longer depend on a nuclear balance satellites, missiles, and even ground targets. of terror.” But almost in the same breath, he Secretary Rumsfeld’s last act before re­ restated familiar Reagan-era Republican doc­...

... surround this year’s presiden­ minds of voters. During this spring’s pri­ tial race. The first one is that foreign policy maries, no issue, from the proposed “star is largely irrelevant. The second is that even wars” U.S. missile defense system to U.S. when they do address foreign affairs, Re­...

... Years in Tibet revolves around guilt, remorse, and redemption.” An illustration, par excellence, of the “don’t ask, don’t check” auteur theory. Given such lapses, I brought modest expectations to Thirteen Days, based on Robert F. Kennedy’s memoir about the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Yet...

... (a phrase hower’s vice president, was excoriated by his coined by Eisenhower’s speechwriters Ralph Democratic rival John F. Kennedy for allow­ Williams and Malcolm Moos). As a four- ing a supposedly dangerous “missile gap” to star general and a hero of the Allied assault develop between U.S...

... shores. The posal for a specifically European rapid re­ pattern of China’s rearmament— purchas­ action force whose autonomy from NATO ing submarines, Su-27 and Su-30 strike has yet to be settled. Above all, the planned aircraft, and anti-ship missiles from Russia, course of EU enlargement, with 13...

..., different dreams America and ticulated a hard-line, unilateralist position. China are like two lovers in bed, with very Their strategic priorities included missile different understandings about why they are defense, withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic there and what the future may hold.1...

.... About toward China, Taiwan, North Korea, the only thing consistent in the administra­ Iraq, and missile defense, among other tion’s North Korea policy has been its de­ issues. nials of inconsistency. “It’s a very constant One caught a glimpse of this ideolog­ policy,” White House spokesman...

... powers, but this would also stan has named its Ghauri missile after a require them to stop evading the responsibil­ twelfth-century Muslim military leader who ity for the decision to go nuclear, something conquered (Hindu) parts of South Asia, In­ that would work against the mythology of dia’s...

... in Central Asia” (XVIII: 1) Cooper, Belinda; “'We Have No Martin Luther King’: Eastern Europe’s Rhinelander, John B., and Philip E. Coyle; “National Missile Defense and Roma Minority” (XVIII:4) the ABM Treaty...

... at logger- policies on which the Clinton administra­ heads over Kashmir and over India’s pursuit tion had belatedly embarked. Even prior to of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. assuming office, key Bush policy advisers It was during the waning days of the had signaled that India would...

... of legislation in the overburdened North American Aerospace U.S. Congress involving NATO, such as bills Defense Command (n o r a d ) patrol the skies on enlargement or missile defense, pass with over America is just one example. British at least an attempt by lawmakers to attach special forces...

... in of missiles has reduced the margin of safety 1914 and 1916, continued this policy. the oceans once provided. But even before This is not to say that all American po­ the air age, no American leader, including litical leaders believed absolute security was Jefferson, has ever been prepared to see...

... European allies were Indian foreign policy calculations with the expressing deep reservations over the Bush Soviet collapse has not led to an uncritical administration’s plans to withdraw from the acceptance of American global dominance. 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty so as to The French...