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USAF COUNTERPROLIFERATION CENTER CPC OUTREACH JOURNAL Maxwell AFB, Alabama Issue No. 568, 3 May 2007 Articles & Other Documents: Missile Test Attempts To Hit Simultaneous Targets Europe Worries As Russia And U.S. Argue Over Missiles U.S., Japan Reiterate Warning To N. Korea Nuclear Bomb Is Biggest Al Qaeda Threat, Ex-CIA Chief Writes India-U.S. Nuclear Pact Remains Stalled USFK: Anthrax shots must become priority Country Reports on Terrorism 2006 Bush Steps Up Effort To Persuade Putin On Missile Defense Plan Putin Not Able To Track All Nukes Biodefense campus most of growth Bipartisan Panel Will Review Nuclear Posture Lawmakers Decry Iran-India Alliance Critic of Iran’s Nuclear Policy Is Charged With Spying Welcome to the CPC Outreach Journal. As part of USAF Counterproliferation Center’s mission to counter weapons of mass destruction through education and research, we’re providing our government and civilian community a source for timely counterproliferation information. This information includes articles, papers and other documents addressing issues pertinent to US military response options for dealing with nuclear, biological and chemical threats and attacks. It’s our hope this information resource will help enhance your counterproliferation issue awareness. Established in 1998, the USAF/CPC provides education and research to present and future leaders of the Air Force, as well as to members of other branches of the armed services and Department of Defense. Our purpose is to help those agencies better prepare to counter the threat from weapons of mass destruction. Please feel free to visit our web site at http://cpc.au.af.mil/ for in-depth information and specific points of contact. Please direct any questions or comments on CPC Outreach Journal to Jo Ann Eddy, CPC Outreach Editor, at (334) 953-7538 or DSN 493-7538. To subscribe, change e-mail address, or unsubscribe to this journal or to request inclusion on the mailing list for CPC publications, please contact Mrs. Eddy, [email protected]. The following articles, papers or documents do not necessarily reflect official endorsement of the United States Air Force, Department of Defense, or other US government agencies. Reproduction for private use or commercial gain is subject to original copyright restrictions. All rights are reserved Honolulu Advertiser April 25, 2007 Missile Test Attempts To Hit Simultaneous Targets By Jan TenBruggencate, Advertiser Kaua'i Bureau LIHU'E, Kaua'i — The Missile Defense Agency will try to shoot two simulated enemy missiles down at once tomorrow in the latest test of the Navy's Aegis ballistic missile defense system. A similar test was aborted in December because of an incorrect setting in the Aegis missile system aboard the Aegis cruiser USS Lake Erie. This is the 10th intercept attempt. Of the previous nine, seven resulted in successful intercepts. The tests have been increasingly complex, and in this case, the Lake Erie will be called on to identify and deal with two threats at once. One of them will be a simulated short-range ballistic missile fired from the ground at the Pacific Missile Range on Kaua'i. The second will be an anti-aircraft rocket dropped from a Navy aircraft and aimed at the Lake Erie. The Lake Erie, with the help of satellite tracking, will identify the two threats at the same time, and launch separate missiles against them. It is slated to launch a Standard Missile-3 against the ballistic missile target, and the goal is for the SM-3 interceptor to actually crash into the target missile. The Lake Erie is to launch a Standard Missile-2 against the anti-aircraft rocket. In a combat situation, the SM-2 warhead would explode alongside the incoming rocket to destroy it, but it will not be rigged to explode during this test. This test is designated FTM-11 Event 4 in the series of Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense tests. It is designed to intercept a ballistic missile in flight, and to simultaneously defend the ship against an airborne threat directed at the ship. "The firing scenario is designed such that both targets are engaged at about the same time, intentionally stressing the crew and combat system resources," the MDA said in a fact sheet on the launches. The U.S. Missile Defense Agency and the Navy manage the Aegis system. Their prime contractor is Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors. Raytheon Missile Systems is the contractor for the Standard Missile. http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007704250381 (Return to Articles and Documents List) New York Times April 28, 2007 Pg. 3 Europe Worries As Russia And U.S. Argue Over Missiles By Thom Shanker and Mark Landler WASHINGTON, April 27 — When the United States first asked Poland and the Czech Republic to base missile defenses on their soil, the proposed interceptors and radar were cast as a prudent hedge against Iran and a guarantee that Europe’s security was indivisible from that of America, which was moving ahead with defenses for its own territory. But with Russia’s rejection of a new American invitation to cooperate on missile defense — a rebuff delivered with an exclamation point when the Kremlin threatened Thursday to pull out of a treaty on conventional weapons in Europe — the initiative risked driving Moscow further from Europe and dividing Europe’s public over the future of its shared security. The caustic exchanges between Washington and Moscow, which many Europeans fear will knock the lid off the ash bin of cold war history, were the latest example of how the United States and Russia say they want to work together but talk past each other. The United States says the missile defenses are all about Iran, which American intelligence agencies have said is developing missiles capable of reaching Europe as well as trying to gain the means of producing nuclear weapons. Moscow says that they are all about Moscow, that any Iranian threat is years away and that the bases really would serve as a Trojan horse to neutralize the Kremlin’s strategic rocket forces. The United States says that its invitation to share missile defense technology and operate radar sites together would allow Russia to enter a more mature partnership with the United States and NATO, and that all sides would win. Russia responds that its every act of post-cold war conciliation has only left it more tightly encircled by NATO. Even before negotiations begin in earnest, both sides are staking out hard positions. The United States says Russia will have no veto over American missile defense bases in Central Europe. In response, Russia has said that the new offer has done nothing to alter its opposition, and that it is prepared to kick the legs out from under other arms control agreements to show its anger. To be sure, this missile defense drama is only in its opening scene. The two missile defense sites, expected to cost about $3.5 billion, are still years away. At some level, the debate over the missile defense system is not even about interceptors and radar installations. Their effectiveness is a matter of conjecture. It is about Russia’s perception of, and insecurity about, its role in West- facing Europe. Thus, Washington and Moscow are playing to the populations of Poland and the Czech Republic, whose Parliaments would have to approve the bases, and beyond, to a broader and quite ambivalent European public. If the United States hoped that the tough talk this week from Moscow would unify Europe to rally publicly behind its plans to install 10 missile interceptors in Poland and a tracking radar in the Czech Republic, it is likely to be disappointed. Behind closed doors, America’s European allies were indeed united in their negative reaction to the Russian threats during a meeting on Thursday in Oslo attended by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, NATO foreign ministers and the Russian foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, according to American and European officials who were present or were briefed on the session. The Europeans took umbrage at the Russians’ belligerence, after a conciliatory mission to Moscow by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates in which he offered to share missile defense technology with Russia. “For the Russians to turn around and slap us, it did not go over well with European governments today. That’s for sure,” said a senior American official, who spoke on diplomatic ground rules of anonymity. “There was virtual unanimity that Russia should work with the Americans and work with NATO on missile defense, as several delegations said, especially after the Americans have clearly gone out of their way to make constructive proposals to the Russians,” the American official said. That version of events in Oslo, as presented by the senior American official, was confirmed by representatives of two European nations in attendance. Yet speaking publicly on Friday, European officials remained wary about the missile defense proposal, as they had been for months. “The core issue is to prevent a spiral of mistrust between Russia and the U.S.,” said the German foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier. “And this is what is in our immediate European interest.” Other German politicians repeated qualms that an American missile defense system might upset the strategic balance in Europe or ignite a new arms race between Russia and the West. Eckart von Klaeden, a foreign policy adviser to Chancellor Angela Merkel and a supporter of Washington, predicted that the threat by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to pull out of the treaty limiting conventional forces in Europe would not make Europe fall in line behind the United States. “On the one hand, Germans are becoming more skeptical about Russia, but on the other hand, people are still using anti-Americanism as a tool,” Mr.