In 1994, China strengthened its commitment to observe the Missile Technology Control Regime guidelines, and worked closely with the United States in halting North Korea's dangerous nuclear program under international monitoring.
S.1712 does not take into account the U.S. practice of recognizing that Israel is an adherent to the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), even if Israel is not an MTCR member.
Some of the national security chairmen also have jurisdictional questions about the sweeping scope of S.1712, and concerns about the bill's failure to recognize Israel's adherence to the Missile Technology Control Regime.
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" As noted by 33 Senators and 63 Representatives in a letter sent to President Clinton yesterday, "Missile technology and technical advice have been provided to Iran from the Russian Federation in violation of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR).
In the latter regard, it is hard to imagine a more blatant and contemptuous dismissal of U.S. concerns about Russian involvement in the transfer of missile technology (in direct contravention of the Missile Technology Control Regime and bilateral agreements with the United States) than the reported involvement of former Soviet air transport assets to deliver North Korean Scud-C missiles to Syria.
Giving the Army virtually exclusive control over the missile defense mission including the complex areas of battle management, layered defense and space control when it has little if any successful experience in these areas would, at best, likely jack up acquisition costs and delay deployment schedules.
Giving the Army virtually exclusive control over the missile defense mission -- including the complex areas of battle management, layered defense and space control -- when it has little if any successful experience in these areas would, at best, likely jack up acquisition costs and delay deployment schedules.
Before joining Linear, he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he used a surplus flight computer from an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile to research the control of fermentation for use in fields such as pharmaceutical production.
The acquisition of related manufacturing processes can, moreover, be of enormous value to Soviet production of such hardware as missile subassemblies, fire-control systems, radar systems, and computers.
The U.S. should encourage the efforts of other states to engage the North to promote nuclear nonproliferation, limits on missile development, conventional arms control, and human rights.
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Even before they became chairmen, both senators impeded the confirmation of some of President Bush's appointees who will be responsible for missile defense and arms-control policy in the State and Defense Departments.
We agreed to a set of command and control procedures for ballistic missile defense.
Targets selected by the United States since the air operation began Sunday have included air defense facilities, ground-to-air missile sites, and command and control facilities of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban and the al Qaeda terror network.
This could be achieved if only the United States ended its wasteful and futile practice of trying to make programs aimed at protecting against missile attack conform to an arms control treaty that essentially prohibits such protection.
Ido Nehushtan tells Renee Montagne that Israel is not under "a full suspension" of aerial bombing but it will target only "immediate threats, " including Hezbollah missile launchers and command-and-control headquarters.
For instance, a given long-range missile may have fewer warheads aboard it than the number it can carry but, in the interest of arms control monitoring, a larger number is automatically assigned to each missile of that type.
Be sure to stop, too, at Delta-09, a missile silo deactivated under a 1991 arms-control agreement.
Cruise-missile strikes also should be planned against government control and communications centers.
For near-term sea-based or more comprehensive territorial missile defenses, however, the sort of arms control deal fancied by President Clinton must not be consummated.
Meanwhile, if North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Il, had fired off another, even more powerful, rocket, there would have been renewed Republican pressure for national missile defences that would up-end arms-control talks with Russia.
When urging the parliament to ratify Start II on Friday he warned that Russia would withdraw from all arms control agreements if the US went ahead with the missile defence programme, thereby breaking the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
The Bush Administration and Congressional supporters of its mobile missile plan have set the stage for a rout in the arms control negotiations.
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On his way to the meeting, he has met leaders in North Korea and China to agree a common front opposing US plans to introduce a missile defence system, which Russia believes would destabilise efforts at arms control.
Even as one lot of American diplomats shot down the extension of the BWC, others were busy reiterating their country's determination to scrap the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty, a cornerstone of international arms-control for the past 30 years.
The old-style arms control community will protest the abandonment of the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) treaty and prophesy a new arms race.
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The legislator also announced his intention to toughen U.S. export-control rules so that further transfers of U.S. missile-launching knowhow to China can be averted.
This paradigm and the communique it has just spawned attach supreme importance to arms control, in general, and the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, in particular.
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This paradigm -- and the communique it has just spawned -- attach supreme importance to arms control, in general, and the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, in particular.
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All this as China was still smarting from the spy-plane incident in April, as well as President Bush's decision to allow the biggest sale of arms to Taiwan in nearly a decade and press ahead with a missile-defence system that the Chinese say could destroy international arms-control efforts.
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