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

• U-S NUKES / CUBA Voice of America 29 October 1999 -- William Arkin - says the Pentagon history reveals that nuclear components were also stationed in Cuba in the early 1960's.
• U-S NUKES / WORLDWIDE Voice of America 28 October 1999 -- An article in "The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" chronicles the stationing of U-S nuclear weapons overseas and for the first time provides a glimpse of U-S nuclear policy at the height of the Cold War.
• Text: Thomas Pickering on Forging a Consensus for U.S. Leadership USIA 23 October 1999 -- Pickering said two factors -- "exponential growth in U.S. interests and the search for new philosophical underpinnings for U.S. international action -- do indeed put forward the question, What is the U.S. role in the world?"
• Byliner: Samuel R. Berger on U.S. Global Leadership Role USIA 21 October 1999 -- Op-Ed article written by Samuel R. Berger, President Clinton's National Security Adviser. It is adapted from his address to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City on October 21.
• Text: Berger before Council on Foreign Relations on American Power USIA 21 October 1999 -- President Clinton's National Security Advisor, Samuel R. Berger, says the internationalist consensus that has prevailed in the United States "for more than 50 years" increasingly is "being challenged by a new isolationism, heard and felt particularly in the Congress."
• USIA Foreign Press Center DoD News Briefing Wednesday, October 20, 1999 -- There has been a very significant scaling back on the U.S. reliance on tactical or theater nuclear weapons in just the last decade, and this is actually something that began in the '70s or '80s but really gathered great steam at the end of the cold war. Now, this has not been matched by Russia yet. They still have a much greater tactical nuclear arsenal than we do.
• Text: Holum Remarks to UN General Assembly on Arms Control USIA 20 October 1999 -- A number of states have urged a "new agenda" in arms control, including a range of measures, old and new, taking us toward a world free from nuclear weapons. The United States recognizes the frustration that some countries feel about the pace of progress toward nuclear disarmament.
• Text: Surfing the Internet in the United States USIA 18 October 1999 -- About one-fifth of the U.S. population searches the Internet, and half of employed adults use a computer on the job, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which released a report outlining computer use and Internet access.
• Text: Richardson Statement on Nuclear Stockpile Stewardship Program USIA 14 October 1999 -- Under the SSP, Richardson said, "the Secretaries of Defense and Energy have successfully certified the nuclear stockpile for the last three years, and we are well along our way to a fourth certification that the stockpile remains safe and reliable and that nuclear testing is not needed at this time."
• STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT October 14, 1999 -- General Ralph E. Eberhart, United States Air Force, to be Commander in Chief, United States Space Command; Commander in Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command; Commander, Air Force Space Command; and Department of Defense manager for Space Transportation Systems Contingency Support.
• Richardson Concedes, Clinton Signs Bill to Take Nuke Responsibility from Energy Department, House Policy Committee, U.S. Congress, 05 October 1999 -- The most significant Cabinet department restructuring in two decades became law today, as President Clinton signed a bill enacting 28 recommendations by the House Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China (PRC).
• STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT White House October 5, 1999 -- The most troubling features of the Act involve the reorganization of the nuclear defense functions within the Department of Energy. Particularly objec-tionable are features of the legislative charter of the new National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) that purport to isolate personnel and contractors of the NNSA from outside direction.

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