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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI all over again?

rshowalter - 10:22pm Jul 22, 2001 EST (#7301 of 7335)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Some of NYT's Missile Defense Coverage this week

Allies Tell Bush They'll Act Alone on Climate Accord by DAVID E. SANGER and ALESSANDRA STANLEY http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/22/international/22SUMM.html ... As demonstrators occasionally clashed with police outside the summit in Genoa, Italy, the United States' leading allies said that they intended to ratify the Kyoto Protocol by next year

Bush and Putin Agree to Tie U.S. Missile Shield Plans to A-Arms Cuts By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/22/international/22WIRE-PREXY.html ... President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed today to tie U.S. plans for building a missile defense shield to talks on reducing nuclear stockpiles

Text of Bush - Putin News Conference by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Bush-Putin-Text.html . . . The text of a news conference with President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin Sunday at the close of a summit of industrial nations

Bush and Putin to Start Talks on U.S. Shield and Arms Cuts by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Bush-Putin.html .... President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged today to pursue deep cuts in their nuclear arsenals and link the offensive weapons talks to tougher negotiations over American missile defense plans

Russia's Eventual Place in NATO By TIMOTHY GARTON ASH http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/22/opinion/22GART.html

Missile Defense Issues To the Editor http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/22/opinion/L22MISS.html

Cast of Star Wars Makes Comeback in Bush Plan By JAMES GLANZ http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/22/politics/22SPAC.html .... Twenty years after President Ronald Reagan proposed placing weapons in space, the Pentagon has put nearly every major element of the original program at the center of its plans for a missile shield

The Week in Review: July 15-21 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/22/weekinreview/22P2ST.html

U.S. senators praise Bush - Putin agreement By REUTERS http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/world/group-russia-usa-cong.html .... Senior U.S. senators from both major parties on Sunday praised an agreement between President George W. Bush and Russia's Vladimir Putin to link missile defense systems to cuts in nuclear arsenals

A World Seeking Security Is Told There's Just One Shield by MICHAEL WINES http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/22/weekinreview/22WINE.html ... . Russia and Europe are starting to wonder where they stand with the United States as it pursues controversial policies on arms control, missile defense, the environment and NATO expansion

rshowalter - 10:23pm Jul 22, 2001 EST (#7302 of 7335)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Some of NYT's Missile Defense Coverage this week

Bush the Radical by ANTHONY LEWIS . . . http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/21/opinion/21LEWI.html . . . . We are well aware of the radical change that George W. Bush has brought to basic domestic policies. But his changes in national security policy are even more radical

Skeptics of Missile Defense Rush Are Enthusiastic on Stem Cell Research by PETER STEINFELS Similar questions of faith underlie debates over stem cell research and missile defense shields http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/21/national/21BELI.html

Russia's Putin Unhappy With US Plan by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Summit-Putin.html . . . On the eve of his meeting with President Bush, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he still doesn't understand why the United States wants to scuttle a 1972 arms control treaty and build a missile defense system

North Korea Faults U.S. on Missiles By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-NKorea-Missile-Defense.html

In a Skirmish Along Party Lines, Daschle Talks of Isolationism and Republicans Fire Back By ALISON MITCHELL http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/20/international/20REPU.html

Among Neighbors of MX Missiles, Little Neutrality By MICHAEL JANOFSKY http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/20/politics/20WYOM.html

Bush, in Britain, Enjoys the Calm Before the Storm By DAVID E. SANGER http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/20/international/20PREX.html

What the Protesters in Genoa Want by MICHAEL HARDT and ANTONIO NEGRI http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/20/opinion/20HARDT.html

Rumsfeld Sees Discord on Size of Military By THOM SHANKER http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/politics/19MILI.html

Few Missile Defense Details Emerge After Powell Talks By JANE PERLEZ with MICHAEL WINES http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/politics/19MILI.html

Why Isn't the U.S. Making Friends? http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/opinion/L19RUSS.html

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