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On December 5 the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) performed asuccessful intercept test of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) missile defense interceptor.

On the heels of successful swings through Europe and the MiddleEast, Rice's first visit to Asia as After a 13-month boycott, NorthKorea has finally agreed to return to the Six-Party Talks, whichwill resume on July 25th in Beijing.

Clinton's Failed Missile Defense Policy: A Legacy of MissedOpportunities

Convention will not actually decrease chemical weaponsproliferation.

Clinton's defense spending cuts threaten America'smilitary-industrial base.

President Bush's expected declaration of an operational missiledefense capability is a historic achievement, but the threatremains. Congress should continue to improve existing missilesystems and interceptors; support the development and deployment ofsea-, land-, and space-based missile interceptors; and construct aworldwide command and control system that ties together all theU.S. missile defense capabilities.

With Barack Obama having already visited Europe twice as President,with a third visit scheduled for July, his positioning of the transatlantic alliance in his Administration's overall foreignpolicy is ripe for reflection.

(Archived document, may contain errors) The Defense and Space Talks: The Prospects for a Breakthrough

(Archived document, may contain errors) 7/9/93 198 WHY ASPIN'S "BOTTOM-UP" DEFENSE REVIEW IS A CHARADE

The Bush Administration's initiative to sell civilian nucleartechnology to India will have a lasting effect on the internationalnonproliferation regime. To deal with the growing impact of defacto nuclear-weapon states on U.S. security, policymakers shouldpursue a two-track policy for nuclear nonproliferation and developcriteria-based policies for emerging nuclear technologyrelationships with these states.