TALKING POINTS 10 Years of Quote of the Day

GLOBAL SECURITY NEWSWIRE TALKING POINTS

Global Security Newswire’s comprehensive daily report covers breaking news and the latest trends on global security, from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction to missile defense and proliferation. With a team of experienced journalists, GSN is the go-to source on worldwide developments related to nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

Every day over the course of the last decade, GSN’s report also has included a Quote of the Day. This anthology of GSN’s most notable quotes of the day, TALKING POINTS, reads like an overheard conversation chronicling the ups and downs of global security efforts since 2001. Arranged chronologically, the quotes are accompanied by a timeline of the major events shaping policy around the world.

GSN, which is underwritten by the Nuclear Threat Initiative, is free and independently produced by the National Journal Group. Subscribe at www.nti.org/GSN. For the past ten years, National Journal has been proud to partner with NTI to publish Global Security Newswire. This vital chronicle captures the latest developments in the active pursuit to create a safer, more stable world. And over the course of its history, the team of committed and intrepid reporters has When Ted Turner and former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn founded the Nuclear consistently published breaking news and award-winning journalism. Threat Initiative (NTI) in January 2001, public education was one of our core missions. At the time, public awareness of the threat posed by nuclear, A few recent stories illustrate the power of GSN to spark dialogue and focus chemical and biological weapons was low, while the reality of those threats attention on these most pressing issues. On the bioterrorism front, GSN’s was high. Elaine Grossman was the first to report about the Pentagon re-directing $1 billion dollars from W.M.D.-defense efforts to fund a vaccine initiative. We felt that an independent news source would best serve the public and NTI’s mission, particularly in a changing media environment. At the time, Grossman also revealed the hidden tensions among the current national U.S. newspapers were shutting down foreign news bureaus and reducing security team about the handling of an aging nuclear arsenal. Her story, international coverage, and the web was still emerging as a news outlet. “Inside Obama Administration, a Tug of War Over Nuclear Warheads,” won a first place award for online news and features from the Society of Professional Since then, the need for independent, knowledgeable and well-reported Journalists. SPJ described the piece as “well sourced and fair. The issues stories on issues related to weapons of mass destruction has only grown. raised about the risk of theft and accidental detonation left this reader NTI found the right partner in the National Journal Group, a premier source of sobered.” nonpartisan insight on politics and policy. Launched on October 1, 2001, just A series of more recent stories this year by Martin Matishak outlined efforts to weeks after the terrorist attacks of September 11, Global Security Newswire prevent the closure of a Russian-based program intended to provide former has become a critical, award-winning resource. Soviet weapons scientists with research opportunities in the civilian sphere. We are confident that as more people read GSN and become better informed These articles reflect the outstanding work done by GSN’s staffers, past and about global security issues, more people will become engaged in finding the present, in offering readers comprehensive reporting on major topics such as solutions to these challenging problems. the invasion of Iraq, U.S. nuclear-weapon policy, and efforts to constrain the At this ten year mark, we thank the readers who rely on GSN as well as past spread of weapons of mass destruction around the world. and present GSN editors and reporters for a job well done. We look forward to continuing this important partnership with NTI.

Justin B. Smith Sam Nunn Joan Rohlfing President, Atlantic Media Company Co-Chairman and President and Chief Executive Officer Chief Operating Officer 5 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL 2001 GLOBAL SECURITY NEWSWIRE NEWSWIRE

October 12, 2001 October 18, 2001 THE ABM THE GOOD NEWS IS TREATY IS THAT THERE ARE MANY OUTDATED, FEDERAL AGENCIES ANTIQUATED WORKING ON ALL OF AND THESE ISSUES. THE BAD USELESS. NEWS IS THAT THERE ARE MANY FEDERAL George W. Bush President George W. Bush during a AGENCIES WORKING ON White House press conference. ALL OF THESE ISSUES.

Fred Thompson U.S. Senator Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) on the U.S. ability to combat bioterrorism, speaking at a joint hearing of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs and the Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services.

Timeline 2001 2001 JANUARY 8, 2001 JANUARY 20, 2001 SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 NUCLEAR THREAT GEORGE W. BUSH 9-11 TERRORIST ATTACKS INITIATIVE FORMED INAUGURATED Al-Qaeda terrorists crash The Nuclear Threat Initiative George W. Bush becomes hijacked passenger aircraft is formed to reduce the the 43rd president of the into the World Trade Center global threat posed by United States. in New York, the Pentagon in nuclear, biological and Virginia and an empty field in chemical weapons. Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 people are killed. 7 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL NEWSWIRE

November 6, 2001 November 7, 2001 November 13, 2001 No one should delude The absence of I STILL HAVE A LITTLE themselves into evidence is not the TREPIDATION GOING thinking that the war same as evidence of FOR MY OWN MAIL. against terrorism will absence. be brief, painless and limited. But we must Norma Wallace Matthew Bunn be aware that this is a Matthew Bunn, member of the Russian Recovered anthrax victim and New Jersey postal worker American Nuclear Security Advisory Norma Wallace, on her release from the hospital. struggle of civilization Council, on the lack of evidence that against barbarity. significant quantities of nuclear materials have been smuggled from Russia.

Antonio Martino Italian Defense Minister Antonio Martino, speaking to members of Parliament about sending Italian troops to the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan.

2001 2001 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2001 OCTOBER 1, 2001 GLOBAL OCTOBER 7, 2001 U.S. INVADES ANTHRAX ATTACKS IN U.S. SECURITY NEWSWIRE AFGHANISTAN LAUNCHES Five people are killed and 17 The United States leads the allied sickened after being exposed Global Security Newswire invasion of Afghanistan, where the to envelopes containing anthrax publishes its first edition, Taliban government had provided spores mailed to congressional offering daily coverage of refuge to al-Qaeda. offices and news organizations nonproliferation issues and in New York, Washington and W.M.D. threats. Florida. 9 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL 2002 GLOBAL SECURITY NEWSWIRE NEWSWIRE January 18, 2002 November 15, 2001 As horrible as this disaster would be, what HERE WE ARE NOW, would become of the global shipping industry and global trade if a sea container were used MORE THAN TWO to smuggle some weapon of mass destruction MONTHS AFTER THE that was detonated? TERRORIST ATTACKS Robert Bonner OF SEPTEMBER 11, U.S. Customs Service Commissioner Robert Bonner, advocating AND THE NEXT PIECE new methods to secure shipping containers at seaports. OF INFORMATION I GET WILL BE THE FIRST PIECE. May 23, 2002

John Timoney If you vote no, you’re voting against our military, Philadelphia Police Commissioner John Timoney, commenting you’re voting against the people of New York. on the lack of information he has received from the FBI.

Dennis Hastert U.S. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), urging passage of a supplemental funding bill to fight terrorism, criticized by some lawmakers as providing political favors to others.

2001 2002 JANUARY 29, 2002 “AXIS MAY 24, 2002 SORT TREATY SIGNED OF EVIL” NAMED President Bush and Russian President President Bush identifies Vladimir Putin sign the Strategic Iran, Iraq and North Korea Offensive Reductions Treaty, requiring as an “axis of evil” during his their nations to each reduce their State of the Union address. operationally deployed strategic nuclear systems to between 1,700 and 2,200 warheads by December 31, 2012. 11 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL NEWSWIRE May 28, 2002 START II is dead… It never came into effect, it is not effective now and it will not be July 25, 2002 needed anymore. Even the treaty’s sole purported limit, Ivan Safranchuk on “operationally Ivan Safranchuk, head of the Center deployed strategic for Defense Information’s Moscow January 23, 2002 office, on Russia’s decision to renounce warheads” turns formally its ratification of START II, out to be hollow—a following the U.S. withdrawal from IT’S GOOD TO BE BACK. the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. public relations stunt that expires Tom Daschle the moment it U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S Dak.) on the reopening enters into force. of the Hart Senate Office Building, closed for more than three months following its contamination by anthrax spores mailed to Daschle. Christopher Paine Christopher Paine, senior analyst with the Natural Resources Defense Council, on the U.S.-Russian Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty.

2002 2002 JUNE 2002 G8 CREATES AUGUST 14, 2002 IRAN NUCLEAR SEPTEMBER 24, 2002 OCTOBER 1, 2002 U.S. INTELLIGENCE ANTI W.M.D. PARTNERSHIP ACTIVITY ANNOUNCED U.K. WARNS OF IRAQI CONFIRMS IRAQI W.M.D. PROGRAM W.M.D. PROGRAM The Group of Eight powers An Iranian opposition group announces The U.S. Director of Central Intelligence announces creation of a that Iran is operating nuclear facilities The Blair government in issues a National Intelligence Estimate 10-year, $20 billion Global that have not been declared to the the United Kingdom issues assessing that Iraq has maintained W.M.D. Partnership Against the United Nations. a dossier warning of the efforts, including “reconstituting its nuclear Spread of Weapons and continued threat posed weapons program, in contravention of U.N. Materials of Mass Destruction. by Iraqi weapons of mass Security Council mandates that followed destruction efforts. the 1991 Persian Gulf War.” 13 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL September 4, 2002 My life has been completely and utterly destroyed by [Attorney General] John Ashcroft NEWSWIRE and the FBI. I do not understand why they are doing this to me. My professional reputation is in tatters. All I have left are my savings, and they will be exhausted soon because of my legal bills. September 12, 2002

Steven Hatfill HISTORY, LOGIC AND Steven Hatfill, former U.S. Army biologist and now a “person of interest” in the FBI’s investigation of the 2001 anthrax mailings, THE FACTS LEAD TO speaking after being fired by Louisiana State University. ONE CONCLUSION: SADDAM HUSSEIN’S REGIME IS A GRAVE AND GATHERING October 18, 2002 [North Korea is saying,] We have powerful DANGER. weapons, more powerful than Iraq, and if you’re thinking about coming after us for your next George W. Bush target after Iraq, you better think twice, because U.S. President George W. Bush, speaking to the U.N. General Assembly. we can hit back harder than the Iraqis can.

Larry Niksch Larry Niksch, an Asia specialist with the Congressional Research Service, on North Korea’s acknowledgement of a uranium enrichment program.

2002 2002 NOVEMBER 8, 2002 U.N. RESOLUTION NOVEMBER 25, 2002 DECEMBER 16, 2002 U.S. 1441 CONDEMNS IRAQI W.M.D. PROGRAM HOMELAND SECURITY BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT CREATED SYSTEM GREENLIGHTED The U.N. Security Council unanimously approves Resolution 1441, which finds that President Bush signs the President Bush signs National Iraq is in breach of disarmament obligations Homeland Security Act of Security Presidential Directive 23, for weapons of mass destruction and other 2002, which establishes outlining a plan to begin deployment armaments set by previous resolutions. It the U.S. Homeland of operational U.S. ballistic missile offers the Hussein regime “a final opportunity Security Department. defense systems by 2004. to comply with its disarmament obligations.” 15 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL 2003 GLOBAL SECURITY NEWSWIRE

May 19, 2003 NEWSWIRE I think some of these folks would put nuclear tips on ice cream cones if they could.

October 18, 2003 Ellen Tauscher U.S. Representative Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.), on efforts by Bush administration THE UNITED NATIONS officials to repeal a research ban on low-yield nuclear weapons. SECURITY COUNCIL HAS NOT LIVED UP TO ITS RESPONSIBILITIES. SO WE WILL RISE TO June 26, 2003 August 11, 2003 OURS. We don’t even For a nation to entirely play cricket. forsake nuclear George W. Bush weapons is like taking U.S. President George W. Bush, announcing that U.S.-led military action against Pervez Musharraf part in a boxing match Iraq could begin in 48 hours if Saddam Hussein fails to leave the country. Pakistani President Gen. Pervez and promising not to Musharraf, lamenting poor throw hooks. Indian-Pakistani relations.

Tadae Takubo Tadae Takubo, professor of policy at Japan’s Kyorin University, urging officials to reconsider Japan’s long-standing taboo against possessing nuclear weapons.

2003 2003 FEBRUARY 5, 2003 COLIN POWELL MARCH 19, 2003 U.S.-LED MAY 31, 2003 PROLIFERATION MAKES IRAQ CASE BEFORE U.N. COALITION INVADES IRAQ SECURITY INITIATIVE ESTABLISHED U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell appears The United States leads the allied President Bush announces before the U.N. Security Council to make invasion of Iraq. Following the invasion, establishment of the Proliferation the case for action against Iraq. Powell’s the Iraq Survey Group begins searching Security Initiative, a multinational presentation included the assertion that Iraq for the Hussein regime’s suspected program to interdict illicit shipments possessed mobile facilities for producing weapons of mass destruction. of weapons of mass destruction and biological weapons. associated materials and technology. 17 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL

October 17, 2003

HAND-SHAKING IS NEWSWIRE IMPOSSIBLE WITH A CLENCHED FIST. August 15, 2003 Jeong Se-hyun THERE ARE South Korean Unification Minister Jeong Se-hyun, urging North Korean officials to COUNTRIES IN THE tone down their rhetoric and resume six-nation talks on the Korean nuclear crisis. WORLD WHERE YOU CAN PAY $2,000 TO A GOVERNMENT February 10, 2003 MINISTER AND HE’LL WE NEVER WANTED SIGN ANYTHING. TO CAUSE HARM OR

Rastislav Kacer DAMAGE TO ANYBODY. Former Slovak Deputy Defense Minister Rastislav Kacer, on the ease of acquiring false documents to smuggle W.M.D.-related materials. Rihab Taha Former top Iraqi biologist dubbed “Dr. Germ” by the media, defending Iraq’s past pursuit of biological weapons.

2003 2003 JUNE 1, 2003 SORT OCTOBER-NOVEMBER, 2003 AGREEMENT ENACTED RICIN-LACED LETTERS DISCOVERED IN U.S. Following approval by the U.S. and Russian legislatures, the Strategic Letters containing the lethal toxin Offensive Reductions Treaty ricin and addressed to the U.S. enters into force. Transportation Department and the White House are discovered in mail facilities in South Carolina and Washington, D.C. 19 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL 2004 GLOBAL SECURITY NEWSWIRE December 3, 2003

Rogue states such as Iran, North NEWSWIRE Korea, Syria, Libya and Cuba, January 6, 2004 whose pursuit of weapons of mass destruction makes them hostile to IT IS NATURAL FOR US U.S. interests, will learn that their covert programs will not escape either TO LOOK FOR MEANS detection or consequences. TO DEFEND OURSELVES. IT IS NOT DIFFICULT TO John Bolton U.S. Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security GET MOST OF THESE John Bolton, speaking to an international security conference. WEAPONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD AND THEY CAN BE OBTAINED AT

December 19, 2003 ANY TIME.

It’s probably time to call it quits. Bashar Assad Syrian President Bashar Assad, describing his policy on possessing chemical and biological weapons. Hans Blix Former chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix, commenting on the U.S.-led search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

2003 2004 DECEMBER 19, 2003 FEBRUARY 2, 2004 KHAN FEBRUARY 2, 2004 FEBRUARY 5, 2004 QADHAFI RENOUNCES CONFESSES TO SHARING RICIN-LACED MAIL CLOSES KHAN PARDONED W.M.D. NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY U.S. SENATE OFFICES Calling him “my hero,” Pakistani Libyan leader Col. Muammar Top Pakistani nuclear-weapon U.S. Senate office buildings are President Pervez Musharraf Qadhafi renounces weapons scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan closed after ricin is found in a pardoned Khan for transferring of mass destruction. confesses to providing nuclear mailroom at the office of Senate nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and technology to Iran, Libya and Majority Leader Bill Frist. North Korea and places him under North Korea. house arrest. 21 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL

February 11, 2004 NEWSWIRE To have flour, water and fire doesn’t mean you have bread.

Abdel Rahman Shalgam Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel January 15, 2004 Rahman Shalgam, denying that Libya possessed weapons of mass destruction while acknowledging that March 15, 2004 There can be no waiting until the danger it had all the necessary components. has fully materialized. By then it would be Is it possible that even too late. And so we are waging this war in as we meet, squads the only way it can be won—by taking the of Iranian technicians fight directly to the enemy. are working at still- undeclared sites to Dick Cheney tile over, paint over, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, reaffirming the Bush doctrine buy, burn or cart away in combating terrorism and W.M.D. proliferation. incriminating evidence?

Kenneth Brill Kenneth Brill, the U.S. representative to the IAEA, on Iranian reluctance to allow agency inspectors into Iran.

2004 2004 APRIL 28, 2004 U.N. APPROVES MAY 26, 2004 U.S. LAUNCHES SEPTEMBER 30, 2004 IRAQ SURVEY RESOLUTION 1540 GLOBAL THREAT REDUCTION GROUP RELEASES FINDINGS INITIATIVE The U.N. Security Council The Iraq Survey Group issues its final report, approves Resolution 1540, which The United States commits $450 finding that the Hussein regime’s W.M.D. requires U.N. states to take million to GTRI, a comprehensive effort capability was “essentially destroyed” in the all possible means to prevent to secure and remove high-risk nuclear 1991 war but that Saddam Hussein hoped nonstate actors from acquiring and radiological materials that pose to reconstitute that capacity once sanctions weapons of mass destruction. a threat to the United States and the were lifted from his nation. international community. 23 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL NEWSWIRE

March 30, 2004 April 30, 2004 October 19, 2004 December 23, 2004 Achieving nuclear God knows, if we did If the question is that A nice little Christmas disarmament is a possess [a chemical of a suspension for a present for the world. gradual process bomb], we wouldn’t short period, we can that will be long and hesitate one second talk about it…But if the Matthew Bunn difficult. to use it to hit Israeli question is of depriving Matthew Bunn of Harvard University’s cities such as Eilat and Iran of its rights, that is Managing the Atom project, describing the successful transfer of highly Jackie Sanders Tel Aviv. not negotiable. enriched uranium from a Czech research reactor to Russia. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Conference on Disarmament Jackie Sanders, reiterating long-standing U.S. policy that nuclear Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi Hassan Rohani disarmament will only come incrementally. Recording of a voice believed to be that of Hassan Rohani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme al-Qaeda operative Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi. National Security Council, on a European proposal to offer incentives in exchange for Iran ending its nuclear fuel-cycle activities.

2004 2004 NOVEMBER 2, 2004 BUSH RE-ELECTED President Bush wins a second term in office. 25 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL 2005 GLOBAL SECURITY NEWSWIRE NEWSWIRE

February 4, 2005 March 9, 2005 IF WE REALLY BELIEVE IN THE REAL A NUCLEAR 9-11 IS THE WORLD, THERE ARE MOST SERIOUS THREAT NO KNOWN, WELL- FACING THIS COUNTRY, TRAINED AL-QAEDA THEN WE HAVEN’T EVEN SCIENTISTS. BEGUN TO SCRATCH Milton Leitenberg THE SURFACE. Milton Leitenberg, a University of Maryland W.M.D. expert, criticizing a recent exercise that featured a sophisticated terrorist smallpox attack. Dave Hobson U.S. Representative Dave Hobson (R-Ohio), on the lack of preparedness for what he says is the greatest security risk to the United States—a nuclear weapon in the hands of terrorists.

2005 2005 JANUARY 30, 2005 IRAQ SEES FEBRUARY 10, 2005 NORTH FIRST FREE PARLIAMENTARY KOREA JUSTIFIES NUCLEAR ELECTIONS IN NEARLY FIFTY STOCKPILE, CITES U.S. YEARS AGGRESSION Iraq sees the first free parliamentary North Korea says it will continue its elections since 1958. nuclear buildup, due to perceived U.S. aggression against its sovereignty. 27 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL

April 7, 2005

As far as I am concerned, NEWSWIRE the CIA threw us a curve ball.

Carl Levin U.S. Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.), on revelations by the presidential commission on intelligence indicating that top CIA officials were warned about the reliability of “Curveball,” an agency source on Iraq’s alleged biological weapons programs. April 21, 2005 THE UNITED STATES IS SICK. IT May 27, 2005 October 25, 2005 SUFFERS FROM THE I think we’re getting We now have exactly what researchers working in SICKNESS OF BEING some countries want, laboratories which 15 THE VICTOR, AND IT which is nothing. years ago even the CIA couldn’t penetrate. HAS TO CURE ITSELF William Potter OF THIS DISEASE, William Potter, director of the Center Alan Taub for Nonproliferation Studies at the THIS SICKNESS. Monterey Institute of International Studies, General Motors research and on the results of the 2005 Nuclear development chief Alan Taub, on the Nonproliferation Treaty review conference. company’s employment of former Soviet W.M.D. researchers at a Mikhail Gorbachev new science center in Russia. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, calling on the United States to boost its nuclear disarmament efforts.

2005 2005 MAY 2005 SEVENTH NUCLEAR SEPTEMBER 30, 2005 DANISH NONPROLIFERATION TREATY CARTOONS OF MUHAMMAD SPARK REVIEW CONFERENCE GLOBAL CONTROVERSY Diplomats gather in New A series of cartoons printed by a Danish York for the seventh Nuclear newspaper spark global controversy Nonproliferation Treaty review from Islamic groups, later leading to conference, which ends without several cases of arson against Danish producing any consensus embassies throughout the Muslim world. document. 29 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL 2006 GLOBAL SECURITY NEWSWIRE NEWSWIRE

February 1, 2006 IT SHOULD BE CLEAR September 9, 2005 THAT WE CANNOT I’M THE ONE WHO CONTINUE TO LURCH PRESENTED IT ON FROM CRISIS TO BEHALF OF THE UNITED CRISIS, UNTIL THE STATES TO THE WORLD, [NONPROLIFERATION] AND [IT] WILL ALWAYS BE REGIME IS BURIED A PART OF MY RECORD. BENEATH A CASCADE IT WAS PAINFUL. IT’S OF NUCLEAR PAINFUL NOW. PROLIFERATION.

Colin Powell Kofi Annan Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, on his 2003 presentation to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, urging world leaders to improve their the U.N. Security Council on prewar Iraq’s alleged W.M.D. programs. efforts to shore up the international systems designed to prevent proliferation.

2005 2005 OCTOBER 7, 2005 OCTOBER 19, 2005 THE TRIAL INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC OF SADDAM HUSSEIN BEGINS ENERGY AGENCY WINS NOBEL Former Iraqi President Saddam The International Atomic Energy Hussein is tried by the Iraqi Agency and Director General Special Tribunal for crimes Mohamed ElBaradei receive the against humanity. Nobel Peace Prize. 31 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL NEWSWIRE June 16, 2006 JUST THE SIGNIFICANCE OF OUR CHIEF NEGOTIATOR March 1, 2006 GOING TO PYONGYANG IS LISTEN TO MY HUGE…[AND ADVICE FOR ONCE. WOULD SHOW] Hosni Mubarak Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, urging U.S. Vice President WE DO WANT Dick Cheney to avoid military action against Iran. TO BUILD A RELATIONSHIP.

Lisa Murkowski U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), encouraging the Bush administration to allow Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill to accept an invitation to visit North Korea.

2006 2006 JANUARY 10, 2006 IRAN MAY 3, 2006 9-11 SUSPECT RE-STARTS NUCLEAR PROGRAM SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON Iran breaks the seals on three of its A federal jury in Virginia sentences nuclear facilities, after stating that it Zacarias Moussaoui to life in prison plans to restart work on its “peaceful without the chance of parole for nuclear energy program.” The United his role in the September 11, 2001 States and several European nations terrorist attacks. condemn the move. 33 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL NEWSWIRE March 2, 2006 WHAT THIS AGREEMENT SAYS IS, THINGS CHANGE,

TIMES CHANGE… June 13, 2006 June 21, 2006 THIS AGREEMENT If anybody thinks A.Q. Khan has played IS IN OUR INTEREST we are going to Johnny Appleseed, AND THEREFORE I AM be designing new and the same kind of warheads and not doing centrifuge has been CONFIDENT WE CAN testing, I don’t know spread all over the SELL THIS TO OUR what they are smoking. place. CONGRESS. Sidney Drell Robert Gallucci Sidney Drell, former director of the Former Assistant Secretary of State Robert George W. Bush Linear Accelerator Center at Stanford Gallucci, describing the difficulties of University, arguing that U.S. plans for a identifying the source of fissile material U.S. President George W. Bush on the completion of a new nuclear warhead would lead to the used in a potential terrorist nuclear attack. nuclear technology-sharing agreement with India. end of a nuclear testing moratorium.

2006 2006 SEPTEMBER 23, 2006 NATIONAL OCTOBER 9, 2006 INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE QUESTIONS NORTH KOREA TESTS IMPACT OF IRAQ WAR NUCLEAR DEVICE A classified National Intelligence Estimate—a North Korea conducts its consensus view of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, first nuclear test. signed off by Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte—is leaked to several newspapers. It concludes that “the Iraq war has made the overall terrorism problem worse.” 35 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL NEWSWIRE

October 3, 2006 October 11, 2006 November 22, 2006 The U.S. extreme threat of a nuclear war and I won’t call it a dud — There very well may sanctions and pressure compel the D.P.R.K. to a few hundred tons of not be chemical conduct a nuclear test, an essential process for explosives is not a dud weapons in Iraq, bolstering nuclear deterrent, as a corresponding —but a fizzle. And the but there sure are in measure for defense. designer has probably Richmond, Kentucky. been shot by now. North Korean Foreign Ministry Ed Worley The North Korean Foreign Ministry, announcing specifically Bob Peurifoy State Senator Ed Worley (D-Ky.), for the first time plans for a nuclear test. decrying a new Pentagon schedule Former Sandia National Laboratories that calls for U.S. chemical weapons weapons executive Bob Peurifoy, regarding disposal to be completed in 2023. the small size of the reported North Korean nuclear blast, and suspicions that it did not involve an actual atomic device.

2006 2006 OCTOBER 14, 2006 U.N. SETS DECEMBER 2006 U.S. AND RUSSIA SANCTIONS ON NORTH KOREA GET EXTENSIONS ON CHEMICAL WEAPONS REDUCTIONS U.N. Security Council unanimously passes a resolution banning the Russia and the United States receive sale of materials to North Korea five-year extensions, to April 2012, that could be used to produce to eliminate arsenals banned by the weapons and allowing authorities Chemical Weapons Convention. Both of other countries to inspect cargo nations at the time acknowledged they entering and leaving the country. will miss that deadline. 37 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL 2007 GLOBAL SECURITY NEWSWIRE NEWSWIRE

January 19, 2007 January 4, 2007 January 11, 2007 We’re dealing with a It’s not that I don’t YOU HAVE TO WORK game of chicken here. trust the Pentagon, WITH THE DEVIL but I don’t trust the SOMEWHAT TO FIGURE Taro Aso Pentagon. Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso, OUT WHAT IS GOING ON. urging nations involved in the six-party talks to maintain pressure on North Korea Shelley Berkeley to end its nuclear weapons program. U.S. Representative Shelley Berkeley Earl Brown (D-Nev.), expressing concern about potential dangers posed by the University of Ottawa virologist Earl Brown, arguing in favor of re-creation for planned “Divine Strake” explosion research purposes of the 1918 flu virus that killed up to 50 million people. at the Nevada Test Site.

2007 2007 FEBRUARY 13, 2007 NORTH KOREA AGREES APRIL 9, 2007 IRAN CLAIMS TO DISMANTLE NUCLEAR FACILITIES ABILITY TO ENRICH URANIUM At a meeting in Beijing with diplomats from Iranian President Mahmoud the United States, China, South Korea, Russia Ahmadinejad says Iran has the and Japan, North Korea agrees to dismantle ability to enrich uranium on an its nuclear facilities and allow international industrial scale, which is part of the inspectors to enter the country in exchange for process to make fuel for a nuclear about $400 million in oil and other aid. bomb or reactor. 39 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL

March 15, 2007 NEWSWIRE The abandonment of our nuclear deterrent would be extraordinarily ill-advised, and February 12, 2007 indeed an act of national folly. PERHAPS SOME William Hague AGENCIES USED British Conservative Party lawmaker William Hague. CHEMICAL WEAPONS. BUT I DO NOT KNOW THEM. I DID NOT RECEIVE ANY ORDERS April 27, 2007 We’re expanding our nukes. Who the hell TO USE CHEMICAL are we going to nuke? Tell me Barack. WEAPONS. Who? Who do you want to nuke?

Sultan Hashim al-Tai Mike Gravel Former Iraqi Defense Minister Sultan Hashim al-Tai, on trial for allegedly Democratic presidential candidate Mike Gravel, challenging one of his opponents, playing a role in the Anfal campaign that killed tens of thousands of Kurds. Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.), during a Democratic candidate debate.

2007 2007 JULY 16, 2007 IAEA VERIFIES NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR SHUT DOWN Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency verify that North Korea has shut down its weapons-making nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, one part of an agreement reached in February 2007. 41 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL

July 13, 2007

IS THIS A MOTEL 6 NEWSWIRE

June 25, 2007 FOR TERRORISTS?

WE DON’T Jim Cooper U.S. Representative Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.), noting increased activity by NEED AN al-Qaeda in Pakistan near that country’s border with Afghanistan. ATOMIC BOMB BECAUSE WE ALREADY HAVE ONE: IT’S June 14, 2007 We know that there are terrorists out CALLED THE there who would love to be able to VENEZUELAN take any kind of nuclear weapon and PEOPLE. detonate it. So we know this scenario could happen, and we’ll do anything we can to prevent it. Hugo Chavez Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Judith Orihuela FBI spokeswoman Judith Orihuela, as FBI and Miami police SWAT teams practiced recovery of weapon-usable radioactive material.

2007 2007 SEPTEMBER 6, 2007 ISRAEL DECEMBER 3, 2007 NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DESTROYS SUSPECTED ESTIMATE: IRAN HAS SUSPENDED NUCLEAR NUCLEAR SITE IN SYRIA WEAPONS ACTIVITY Israeli military aircraft strike a Syrian The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence facility at Dair Alzour suspected of releases a National Intelligence Estimate that finds housing an unfinished nuclear reactor with “high confidence” that Iran suspended dedicated intended for plutonium production. nuclear-weapon activities in 2003. The conclusion is Syria later razes the site, which it widely contested. denies had any atomic application. 43 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL 2008 GLOBAL SECURITY NEWSWIRE August 12, 2008 When you’re dealing with Pyongyang, the NEWSWIRE best-case outcome is two steps forward, one-and-a-half steps backwards, if not two steps backwards or two-and-a-half steps backwards. April 21, 2008 Kevin Rudd Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, blaming North Korean IT IS LIKE A “intransigence” for the latest slowdown in the denuclearization effort. RIDICULOUS PLAY.

Hossein Shariatmadari Hossein Shariatmadari, chief editor of Iran’s Kayhan newspaper, accusing Israel and the United States of orchestrating the September 30, 2008 latest inquiry into his nation’s nuclear program. How can I go with a straight face to the non- nuclear-weapon states and tell them nuclear weapons are no good for you, while the weapon states continue to modernize and to say we absolutely need nuclear weapons?

Mohamed ElBaradei International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei

2008 2008 MARCH 2, 2008 AUGUST 6, 2008 BRUCE IVINS MEDVEDEV ELECTED NEW NAMED PERPETRATOR OF PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA ANTHRAX MAILINGS Dmitry Medvedev is elected The U.S. Justice Department declares president of the Russian that former Army microbiologist Bruce Federation. Ivins, who had committed suicide just days earlier, was the sole perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax mailings. 45 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL NEWSWIRE

September 25, 2008

I FINALLY KNOW December 1, 2008 Unless the world WHO MAILED THE December 4, 2008 ANTHRAX LETTERS community acts decisively and with We’re not going IN THE FALL OF great urgency, it is to hell in a 2001…I SHOULD more likely than not handbasket…There that a weapon of is reason to believe HAVE BEEN A mass destruction will that we can succeed PRIVATE EYE!!! be used in a terrorist in preventing acts attack somewhere in of nuclear terrorism the world by the end Bruce Ivins and further nuclear Bruce Ivins, the U.S. biodefense researcher who killed himself as of 2013. proliferation. authorities prepared to charge him as the sole perpetrator of the anthrax attacks, in a 2007 e-mail message to himself, made public in 2008. The U.S. Commission on Michael Krepon the Prevention of Weapons Nuclear proliferation expert Michael of Mass Destruction Krepon, following the release of the W.M.D. Commission report. Proliferation and Terrorism

2008 2008 AUGUST 7-12, 2008 RUSSIA OCTOBER 10, 2008 U.S.-INDIA AND GEORGIA GO TO WAR ATOMIC TECHNOLOGY PACT SIGNED Russia and Georgia go to war India and the United States sign an over the breakaway region of agreement enabling the nuclear-armed South Ossetia. South Asian state to buy U.S. atomic technology in exchange for allowing international monitoring of its civilian nuclear sector. 47 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL NEWSWIRE

April 22, 2008 October 7, 2008 December 23, 2008 We exported this stuff, Frankly if I’m about to IN THE NEXT 10 bomb-grade uranium, die I’d rather not know YEARS, DURING like doughnuts or about it, especially by WHICH THEY MIGHT something. text.

FOOLISHLY CONSIDER Alan Kuperman Jean Dingle LAUNCHING AN University of Texas public affairs professor Jean Dingle, on a British text-messaging Alan Kuperman, on U.S. exports in past system to notify Plymouth residents of ATTACK ON ISRAEL, decades of highly enriched uranium for use nuclear disasters or other emergencies. WE WOULD BE in reactors and medical isotope production. ABLE TO TOTALLY OBLITERATE THEM.

Hillary Clinton U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), warning Iran of the repercussions of a nuclear strike on Israel.

2008 2008 NOVEMBER 4, 2008 BARACK OBAMA ELECTED PRESIDENT Barack Obama is elected the 44th president of the United States. 49 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL 2009 GLOBAL SECURITY NEWSWIRE NEWSWIRE

January 7, 2009 WE MAY BE CRAZY IN PAKISTAN, BUT NOT January 21, 2009 COMPLETELY OUT OF IT IS MY DEEP OUR MINDS. BELIEF THAT THE Ahmed Shujaa Pasha MOST BITTER Pakistani intelligence chief Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shujaa Pasha, denying that his nation supports terrorism against nuclear rival India. DISAPPOINTMENTS USUALLY RESULT FROM EXCESSIVE EXPECTATIONS.

Vladimir Putin Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, on potential relations between his nation and the United States under newly inaugurated President Barack Obama.

2009 2009 FEBRUARY 6, 2009 APRIL 5, 2009 OBAMA MAY 25, 2009 NORTH SEPTEMBER 17, 2009 PAKISTAN ENDS KHAN CALLS FOR WORLD KOREA CONDUCTS OBAMA SCRAPS MISSILE HOUSE ARREST WITHOUT NUCLEAR SECOND NUCLEAR TEST DEFENSE PLANS WEAPONS AQ Khan, the Pakistani North Korea conducts its President Obama scraps scientist who sold nuclear President Obama, speaking second nuclear test. President’s Bush’s missile secrets to Iran, Libya and in Prague, calls for a world defense plans in Europe in North Korea, was given his without nuclear weapons. favor of a “phased adaptive freedom after five years of approach” with systems over a house arrest. number of years to be deployed at sea and on land. 51 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL

June 26, 2009 BY GOD, IF I HAD NEWSWIRE SUCH WEAPONS, I April 6, 2009 WOULD HAVE USED IN A STRANGE TURN THEM IN THE FIGHT OF HISTORY, THE AGAINST THE U.S.

THREAT OF GLOBAL Saddam Hussein NUCLEAR WAR HAS Former Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein, to U.S. agents during a 2004 GONE DOWN, BUT interrogation, regarding whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. THE RISK OF A NUCLEAR ATTACK December 4, 2009 HAS GONE UP. OUR PATIENCE

Barack Obama IS BEING SORELY U.S. President Barack Obama TESTED.

Angela Merkel German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the amount of time Iran has taken in responding to a proposed U.N. uranium enrichment plan.

2009 2009 SEPTEMBER 25, 2009 U.S., DECEMBER 1, 2009 FRANCE AND U.K. ALLEGE IRAN YUKIYA AMANO NUCLEAR ACTIVITY BECOMES NEW DIRECTOR OF IAEA The United States, France and the United Kingdom declare that Iran Japanese diplomat Yukiya is building a previously undeclared Amano becomes director uranium enrichment facility at Qum. general of the International Iran had reported the site to the Atomic Energy Agency. United Nations only days earlier. 53 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL NEWSWIRE September 30, 2009 THEY’VE BEEN CAUGHT

June 9, 2009 August 26, 2009 WITH THEIR NUCLEAR Our nuclear deterrent There are people who PANTS DOWN. will be a strong say that [2017] can’t defensive means… be met. But that’s the Gary Sick as well as a merciless law. That’s about eight Former U.S. National Security Council staffer Gary Sick, after Tehran disclosed construction of a second uranium enrichment site. offensive means to years from now. Let’s deal a just retaliatory get to work. strike to those who touch the country’s Mitch McConnell dignity and sovereignty U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), November 10, 2009 even a little bit. holding the Pentagon to the congressional deadline for elimination of the nation’s chemical weapons stockpile. THE WORLD IS OVER- North Korea ARMED, AND PEACE IS North Korea, apparently referring to its nuclear arsenal for the first UNDERFUNDED. time as an offensive weapon rather than strictly a deterrent. Ban Ki-moon U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

2009 2009 DECEMBER 5, 2009 DECEMBER 9, 2009 OBAMA START AGREEMENT OUTLINES VISION FOR PREVENTING EXPIRES BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS The U.S.-Soviet nuclear President Obama releases the National Strategic Arms Reduction Strategy for Countering Biological Treaty expires. Threats, which outlines his vision for addressing the challenges from proliferation of biological weapons or their use by terrorists. 55 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL 2010 GLOBAL SECURITY NEWSWIRE NEWSWIRE

January 19, 2010 January 25, 2010 I AM SO HAPPY IF IT WAS POSSIBLE TODAY. NOW THE TO CARRY OUR SOULS OF OUR MESSAGES TO YOU VICTIMS WILL REST BY WORDS, WE IN PEACE. WOULDN’T HAVE CARRIED THEM TO Nazik Tawfiq Iraqi Kurd Nazik Tawfiq, after former Hussein regime official Ali YOU BY PLANES. Hassan al-Majid was sentenced to death for the 1988 chemical weapons attack against the Kurdish village of Halabja. Osama bin Laden Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, praising the failed Christmas Day bombing of a passenger airplane over Detroit.

2010 2010 FEBRUARY 19, 2010 APRIL 6, 2010 U.S. NUCLEAR JUSTICE DEPARTMENT POSTURE REVIEW RELEASED CLOSES ANTHRAX CASE The U.S. Defense Department releases The Justice Department its Nuclear Posture Review report, a announces that it has formally document intended to set the nation’s closed the anthrax mailings case. nuclear policy, strategy, capabilities and force posture for five to 10 years. 57 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL

March 22, 2010 I CALL THEM NEWSWIRE WEAPONS OF PEACE. April 15, 2010 Anil Kakodkar Former Indian Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil WE ARE NOW Kakodkar in defense of his country’s nuclear deterrent. CLOSER TO COOPERATION THAN

June 1, 2010 CATASTROPHE.

WE CAN’T COUNT Sam Nunn Former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn, on progress made ON THE TERRORISTS during the recent Global Nuclear Security Summit. BEING INCOMPETENT FOREVER.

Thomas Kean Former September 11 Commission head Thomas Kean, calling for U.S. intelligence agencies to improve their efforts to prevent terrorist attacks in the wake of unsuccessful bombing attempts in Times Square and on a passenger aircraft.

2010 2010 APRIL 8, 2010 OBAMA AND APRIL 12-13, 2010 OBAMA MEDVEDEV SIGN NEW START TREATY CONVENES FIRST GLOBAL NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT President Obama and President Medvedev sign the New START arms President Obama convenes the first control treaty, which requires the United Global Nuclear Security Summit. States and Russia to each reduce Leaders and dignitaries from more than deployments of strategic nuclear 40 nations pledge to secure vulnerable weapons to 1,550 warheads and 700 nuclear materials within four years. delivery systems. 59 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL NEWSWIRE

August 4, 2010 August 12, 2010 June 28, 2010 They gave me a very This is a classic detailed explanation illustration of WHAT GOOD IS about the sanctions shooting sparrows AN ATOM BOMB on Iran, about their with a cannon. TO ANYONE? legitimacy and about how they are going to Alexander Golts THE STUPIDEST be implemented. So I Military analyst Alexander Golts, THING TODAY IS replied, “Thank you.” describing Russia’s decision to deploy an advanced air-defense system to Georgian breakaway territory Abkhazia. ACCUMULATING Kim Ik-ju ATOMIC WEAPONS. South Korean Finance Ministry International Finance Bureau Director Kim Ik-ju, describing his meeting with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad U.S. officials seeking Seoul’s cooperation Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose nation is on new sanctions targeting Iran. suspected of seeking a nuclear-weapon capability.

2010 2010 MAY 28, 2010 EIGHTH NUCLEAR DECEMBER 3, 2010 IAEA DECEMBER 17, 2010 NONPROLIFERATION TREATY APPROVES MULTILATERAL TUNISIAN STREET VENDOR REVIEW CONFERENCE NUCLEAR FUEL BANK IGNITES ARAB SPRING The eighth Nuclear Nonproliferation The IAEA Board of Governors Twenty-six year old Mohamed Treaty review conference with approves plans for a multilateral Bouazizi lights himself on unanimous approval of a final nuclear fuel bank, enabling nations fire in protest of the rampant document detailing steps to fulfill to acquire material for atomic corruption of the Tunisian state, the terms of the accord. energy plants without establishing inspiring a series of uprisings capabilities that could be used to throughout the region. produce nuclear-weapon material. 61 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL 2011 GLOBAL SECURITY NEWSWIRE NEWSWIRE

February 7, 2011 February 17, 2011 BUNK! THE NOTION OF PROBABILITY OF P.J. Crowley U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley, dismissing a British A W.M.D. ATTACK newspaper report that Washington had agreed to provide Russia with sensitive information about the United Kingdom’s nuclear deterrent. BEING LOW OR HIGH IS A MOOT POINT BECAUSE WE KNOW THE PROBABILITY IS 100 PERCENT.

Vahid Majidi Vahid Majidi, FBI assistant director for the W.M.D. Directorate

2011 2011 JANUARY 14, 2011 FEBRUARY 5, 2011 NEW START PRESIDENT ZINE EL ABIDINE TREATY GOES INTO EFFECT BEN ALI FLEES TUNISIA Following passage by the U.S. Following weeks of civil unrest, and Russian legislatures, the New Tunisian President Zine El START accord enters into force. Abidine Ben Ali flees the country and seeks asylum in Saudi Arabia. 63 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL

April 12, 2011

The battle against biological weapons NEWSWIRE is a global one. A biological weapon doesn’t know boundaries.

March 15, 2011 Paul van den IJssel Dutch diplomat Paul van den IJssel, president-designate for WHAT THE HELL the 2011 Biological Weapons Convention review conference, IS GOING ON? on the need for additional nations to join the pact.

Naoto Kan Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, rebuking the operator of the Fukushiima Daiichi nuclear power plant for its delay in updating the June 8, 2011 government following another explosion at one of the site’s reactors. This kind of talk—about if we attack, should they attack, should we stay—it just gets people hyped up and spun up, and most of them don’t know what they’re talking about.

William Fallon Former head of U.S. Central Command Adm. William Fallon, advising against protracted public discussion of the prospects for a U.S. or Israeli military operation against Iran’s nuclear program.

2011 2011 FEBRUARY 11, 2011 EGYPTIAN MARCH 11, 2011 A 9.0 MAGNITUDE PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK EARTHQUAKE STRIKES JAPAN OUSTED FROM POWER An earthquake with a 9.0 magnitude Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s strikes eastern Japan, killing thousands 30 years of rule comes to an end. and triggering a series of nuclear accidents at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant complex. 65 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL NEWSWIRE

April 19, 2011 April 29, 2011 EVERYWHERE ELSE HE ALWAYS SAYS: IS FULL OF PIRATES “YOU WILL LOVE ME AND TERRORISTS. OR I WILL KILL YOU.”

Bulat Nigmatulin Abdul Fatah Younis Former Russian Deputy Atomic Energy Minister Bulat Libyan rebel and former Interior Minister Abdul Fatah Younis, discussing Nigmatulin, warning of dangers facing Moscow’s plan to the potential for embattled dictator Muammar Qadhafi to use as a last deploy a fleet of floating nuclear power reactors. resort, his remaining cache of mustard agent against rebel forces.

2011 2011 MAY 1, 2011 OSAMA BIN MAY 19, 2011 BARACK OBAMA LADEN KILLED CALLS FOR A RETURN TO 1967 ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN BORDERS Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is killed during a raid President Obama publicly calls for on his hideout in Pakistan by a two-state solution to the Israeli- U.S. Navy SEALs. Palestinian conflict that would shrink Israel’s borders back to what they were before the “Six Day War” in 1967. 67 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL NEWSWIRE

May 3, 2011 March 4, 2011 June 20, 2011 It’s a cyber weapon of Even the best safety HE WAS NOT mass destruction. We’d standards are useless ANYWHERE WE better start preparing unless they are actually HAD ANTICIPATED right now. implemented.

HE WOULD BE, BUT Ralph Langner Yukiya Amano NOW HE IS GONE. German analyst Ralph Langner, warning that International Atomic Energy Agency the Stuxnet computer virus that infiltrated Director General Yukiya Amano, urging Iranian atomic facilities could also infect enhanced safety measures at atomic other targets such as U.S. power plants. energy installations amid the ongoing Asif Ali Zardari crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, insisting his government did not know al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was hiding in a compound not far from the capital city of Islamabad.

2011 2011 AUGUST 30, 2011 U.S. SEES HIGHEST MONTHLY TROOP CASUALTIES Sixty-six U.S. troops died in Afghanistan in August 2011, making it the deadliest month for American forces since the U.S.-led invasion began in 2001. 69 GLOBAL SECURITY SECURITY GLOBAL GLOBAL SECURITY NEWSWIRE A DECADE IN REVIEW NEWSWIRE Global Security Newswire published its first tuted W.M.D. program and collaboration with The Bush administration was skeptical of At the Pentagon, meanwhile, GSN covered edition on October 1, 2001, with a mission to terrorists. Staff writer Mike Nartker tracked multilateral arms control agreements, and in several important and controversial programs. provide informed, comprehensive reporting on the work of U.N. inspectors as they tried to 2001, President Bush was quoted in GSN call- During the Bush administration, officials proliferation issues and the potential intersec- uncover Iraq’s unconventional weapons opera- ing the Antiballistic Missile Treaty “outdated, battled with Congress over the nuclear tion of terrorism and biological, chemical and tions, while the newswire covered the Bush antiquated and useless.” In late 2001, the “Reliable Replacement Warhead” and the nuclear weapons. administration’s case for war. administration announced it would withdraw Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, a “bunker from the Cold War-era accord, allowing it to buster” that could be used against hardened, The 9-11 attacks the previous month made it GSN’s readers received regular updates on the push ahead with plans for deploying defenses subterranean enemy facilities. Both initiatives clear the threats were real. Only weeks before search for W.M.D. after the 2003 invasion, and against ballistic missile attacks. eventually petered out, but debate on how to GSN launched, terrorists had killed nearly when the Iraq Survey Group found that the re- modernize the U.S. nuclear deterrent remains 3,000 people in New York City, Virginia and gime had no operational W.M.D. development Not long after that, however, Bush and then- very much in debate in Washington. At the Pennsylvania, and as the country reeled, en- programs or usable arsenals, GSN reported on Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the same time, the Pentagon is pushing forward velopes laced with anthrax spores were being the recriminations and official inquiries that go Moscow Treaty requiring each nation to re- with development of conventional “prompt sent through the mail. on to this day. duce its count of strategic nuclear warheads to global strike” technology that would allow the between 1,700 and 2,200 by the end of 2012. military to hit any target within 60 minutes of Within a year, Iran would be forced to acknowl- Intense scrutiny of Iran’s atomic activities be- The 2002 pact would eventually be supplanted a launch order. Today, only nuclear-tipped edge it had operated secret nuclear facilities. gan months before the war with Iraq, with an by a treaty reached by the successors to Putin missiles offer that capability. The Department It was just one of a growing number of nations opposition group’s announcement in August and Bush. GSN has covered it all. of Defense also has battled with Capitol Hill seen—correctly or not—to endanger efforts to 2002 that Tehran was operating undeclared for funding of a project to install conventional prevent the spread of weapons of mass de- nuclear facilities. One of those would turn out Washington during the Bush administration warheads on a select few submarine-launched struction. That list today includes North Korea, to be the uranium enrichment plant at Natanz also led opposition to a protocol aimed at ballistic missiles; skeptics worry that another Syria, Myanmar and Pakistan. in central Iran. Iran has since become a regular verifying nations’ adherence to the Biological nuclear power might mistake a conventional source of frustration for the International Weapons Convention (BWC) and restricted weapon for an incoming nuclear missile and GSN closely followed those developments and Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United funding for chemical-weapon disposal before respond accordingly. many more. For a decade it has given readers Nations. Whether staff writers are compiling the first deadline approached for eliminat- inside and outside government the latest infor- multiple sources of worldwide coverage into ing its stockpile of banned materials. The None of this went unnoticed by GSN. David mation on topics from global nuclear-weapon a single clear and compelling piece or doing newswire has charted the battle over BWC Ruppe followed the Pentagon’s plans—ulti- policy to biosecurity, through reporting not original reporting (exemplified by former Editor verification leading up to the accord’s next re- mately canceled—for the “Divine Strake” test, provided by any other media outlet. Greg Webb), GSN has provided deep cover- view conference later this year and has offered a massive conventional explosion that was age of IAEA efforts to resolve the years-old close coverage of the ups and downs of U.S. seen by some as contributing to data-collec- FRAMING THE GLOBAL W.M.D. STORIES impasse. efforts to destroy its chemical arsenal. tion for the nuclear bunker buster. Reporters Coverage of the “Amerithrax” case offered an Elaine M. Grossman and Jon Fox drove ex- early challenge. The anthrax mailings killed Readers find similarly full reporting on any of GSN first took note of Barack Obama in May tensive coverage of the Reliable Replacement five people and sickened 17. GSN blended the major proliferation issues of the day, from 2005, when the then-junior senator from Warhead, and Elaine’s work has won several original reporting and aggregation to cover suspicions that Syria was building a secret Illinois criticized the Bush administration’s journalism awards, including top honors in the attacks and the pursuit of the perpetrator, nuclear reactor to Libya’s refutation of weap- nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United the Society of Professional Journalists 2008 sticking with the story for years as the inves- ons of mass destruction and the fall of the Nations. GSN followed Obama as he honed his Washington Dateline Awards for her piece on tigation heated and cooled and finally landed Qadhafi regime. GSN also delivers broader as- nonproliferation positions on Capitol Hill and questions regarding the U.S. Army’s ability to on a suspect who committed suicide before sessments on nonproliferation, from debates on the presidential campaign trail. carry out patrols following a W.M.D. event. The charges were filed. over nuclear deterrence in the 21st century to publication’s newest reporter, Martin Matishak, The coverage intensified as Obama put his proposals for a world free of nuclear weapons. is our go-to reporter for topics from biological policy into action. The newswire tracked ne- On the W.M.D. front, President Bush famously threat policy to radiation detection. called Iran, Iraq and North Korea an “axis of SECURITY ISSUES UNDER gotiations over the U.S.-Russian New START evil” in his 2002 State of the Union address. BUSH AND OBAMA nuclear arms control deal and the ratification We are proud of the coverage we’ve provided fight in the Senate. GSN is now turning its re- War was brewing with Iraq. The Bush admin- While the newswire has a global focus, it of- over the past 10 years, and we look forward to sources to the next major battle on the nuclear istration declared that Saddam Hussein’s re- fers consistently great writing on arms issues a future of more solid, independent journalism nonproliferation front: U.S. ratification of the gime posed a major threat through a reconsti- under the Bush and Obama administrations. on these complex and important topics. Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. GLOBAL SECURITY NEWSWIRE STAFF: 2001-2011 Thanks to the editors, writers, and reporters who crafted GSN’s first decade.

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