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Institute for Public Accuracy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MAY 22,
2002
2:16 PM
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CONTACT: Institute for Public Accuracy
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020 or (202) 421-6858
David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
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"Liquidating the Legacy of the Cold War"?
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| WASHINGTON - May 22 -
ZIA MIAN, zia@princeton.edu, www.mnet.fr/aiindex
Mian is co-editor of the book Out of the Nuclear Shadow
and a researcher on South Asian security issues with the Program on Science and
Global Security at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs. He said today: "I'm very disturbed by the Indian
prime minister's speech and his talk of a 'decisive fight.' .... There is no
end in sight to the nuclear danger in South Asia, especially since the U.S. and
Russia have shown with their new nuclear treaty that they have no intention of
putting their nuclear weapons behind them, even though their Cold War ended a
decade ago."
JACQUELINE CABASSO, wslf@earthlink.net, www.wslfweb.org/doclib.htm
Cabasso is executive director of the Western States Legal
Foundation, which recently released the report "The Shape of Things to
Come: The Nuclear Posture Review, Missile Defense, and the Dangers of a New
Arms Race." She said today: "The Bush-Putin nuclear arms reduction
treaty is a sham. Far from 'liquidating the legacy of the Cold War,' as Bush
claims, the administration's real nuclear weapons agenda can be characterized
as fewer, but newer. As recently confirmed in the Nuclear Posture Review, 'more
useable' precision, low-yield nuclear weapons will be developed to complement
first-strike strategic nuclear weapons, in combination with a suite of missile
defenses and space-based weapons. Together these components constitute one
integrated, offensive global war fighting system."
WILLIAM HARTUNG, hartung@newschool.edu, www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports.html
Hartung is the President's Fellow at the World Policy
Institute at the New School and author of "About Face," a new study
on the role of the arms lobby in shaping the Bush nuclear doctrine, as well as
the report "The Costs of NATO Expansion Revisited." He said today:
"The Bush-Putin accord gives nuclear weapons a new lease on life.... In
the next five years alone, the Bush administration plans to spend an additional
$33 billion on its new strategic 'triad' of long-range strike systems, missile
defenses, and a revitalized nuclear weapons production complex. The Bush
nuclear policy draws heavily on the work of corporate-backed conservative think
tanks like Frank Gaffney's Center for Security Policy and Keith Payne's
National Institute for Public Policy, both of which have close ties with major
nuclear arms manufacturers like Lockheed Martin."
BORIS KAGARLITSKY, goboka@online.ru, www.zmag.org/bios/homepage.cfm?authorID=137
Author of Russia Under Yeltsin and Putin, Kagarlitsky
said today: "Russians expect Bush to bring them some reward for the
concessions made in the last months as a contribution to 'the war against
terror.' So far, however, it remains unclear not only what Bush can offer but
even what exactly our leadership wants to get. The real interest of Putin is
that the U.S. administration turns a blind eye to human rights violations in
Russia and Chechnya (knowing well that there will be much more of them in the
near future). This is not hard to get but it is not something that can be
presented to your own people as a great diplomatic achievement."
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