Ballistic Missile Defense: Responding to the Current Ballistic Missile Threat : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, May 30, 1996

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Страница 132 - Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring) , That it is the sense of the Congress that the following Code of Ethics should be adhered to by all Government employees, including officeholders: CODE OF ETHICS FOR GOVERNMENT SERVICE Any person in Government service should : 1.
Страница 61 - ... ballistic missiles may be given awesome power if equipped with weapons of mass destruction. Although attention is usually focused on the possibility of various countries' obtaining nuclear warheads, nuclear capability is at least somewhat constrained by the difficulty of acquiring fissionable material. Loose controls over fissionable material, particularly in the former Soviet Union, are nevertheless quite troubling because unauthorized sales and smuggling of fissionable material to rogue states...
Страница 113 - Title 22 of the United States Code, and Section 301 of the National Emergencies Act (50 USC 1631), in view of the continuing unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy and economy of the United States...
Страница 109 - I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the United States of America, find that the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons ("weapons of mass destruction") and of the means of delivering such weapons, constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, and hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.
Страница 59 - Woolsey, thank you. [The prepared statement of Ambassador Woolsey follows:] PREPARED STATEMENT OF HON. R. JAMES WOOLSEY Mr. Chairman, Members of the Committee, it is an honor to be asked to testify before you today on the topic of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972.
Страница 90 - I5 years to develop an ICBM to carry a nuclear warhead However, the probability of North Korean ICBM development is currently low because of competing demands for dwindling resources among existing high priority military programs Libya. The leadership of Libya has made public statements explicitly stating a desire for weapons of mass destruction that could be delivered by ballistic missile to CONUS. The Libyan leadership's actual commitment to such an expensive and technically and politically risky...
Страница 94 - The Chinese force of nuclear tipped ICBMs is small by US and Russian standards and will remain so. Many of China's long-range systems are probably aimed at the United States China plans to update this force with new missiles and, unlike the Russians, to increase the number of missiles deployed Possible future improvements are to include a mobile ICBM. Unauthorized Launch In our recent NIE, the Intelligence Community reaffirmed earlier assessments that the current threat to North America from unauthorized...
Страница 64 - ... Administration, set out in testimony before this Committee the history of the negotiations in 1992 that followed President Yeltsin's January speeches of that year. President Yeltsin called for "a global system for protection of the world community [that could be] based on a reorientation of the US SDI to make use of high technologies developed in Russia's defense complex." Recently, according to press reports, the new Russian Foreign Minister, Mr. Primakov, threatened to withhold Russian ratification...
Страница 67 - ... that particularly their international conduct and military programs will be weighed by us as we make our long-term decisions about our approach toward the Treaty and cooperative programs. We have no reason to be hesitant to make clear to the Russian government what American needs and desires are. We are dealing from a position of strength. It was our cold-war adversaries' political and economic system that has been cast onto the ash-heap of history, not ours . Thank you, Mr.

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