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August 1999 United States Special Weapons
Nuclear, Biological, Chemical and Missile
Proliferation News

• Address of Senator John McCain - World Affairs Council of Northern California -- August 24, 1999 -- The reunification of China must only occur peacefully, in other words, voluntarily. Strategic ambiguity will not serve U.S interests or values in this crisis. We must be very clear with the Chinese. The United States will do what it must to help defend stability and freedom in Asia. A firmer response to North Korea might have triggered a war, a war we would win, but not without paying a terrible price. Instead, we have sustained North Korea long enough for it to develop missiles that might be capable of striking the United States, and allowed it to proceed with its program to develop nuclear warheads. We urgently need a practical ballistic missile defense, and the ABM Treaty is for the moment blocking us from obtaining it.
• STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY August 13, 1999 - National Security Advisor Samuel Berger announced today the appointment of Hans Binnendijk as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director, Defense Policy and Arms Control, effective August 15, 1999.

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