United States

The US military budget is greater than the next 15 largest military budgets combined. As clear from Bush administration statements, the 2002 Nuclear Posture Review and National Security Strategy, US approaches to security policy, nuclear weapons, counterproliferation, missile defence and terrorism are no longer tied to its bilateral relations with Russia or traditional transatlantic alliances, including NATO. With a more European perspective than US-based organisations, we provide news, analyses and documentation on US defence and policy developments and their implications for multilateralism and international security.

Reports from Disarmament Diplomacy

• National Security and Neo-Arms Control in the Bush Administration, by Jeffrey A. Larsen, Disarmament Diplomacy, Issue No.80, Autumn 2005
• Renewal of US-UK Nuclear Cooperation 'in Breach of NPT' say Eminent Lawyers, including:
  - Mutual Defence Agreement and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Joint Advice from Rabinder Singh QC and Professor Christine Chinkin, Matrix Chambers
• US-UK Mutual Defence Agreement, Disarmament Diplomacy, No.77, May/June 2004
• US-UK Nuclear Weapons Cooperation Up for Renewal, Disarmament Diplomacy, No.76, March/April 2004
• From Arms Control to Cooperative Threat Reduction
  by Michael Krepon, Disarmament Diplomacy No.75, January/February 2004
• WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implications
  by Alexis Orton and Joseph Cirincione, Disarmament Diplomacy No.75, January/February 2004
• President Bush's War on Terror
  by Paul Rogers, Disarmament Diplomacy No.74, December 2003

Selected US Policy Statements

Statements on Iran

• US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns statement on the IAEA vote, September 24, 2005
• IAEA Board of Governors, US Statement, September, 2005
• Text of unofficial U.S.-UK draft resolution on Iran nuclear issue, September 20, 2005
• '[A]ll options are on the table', President George W. Bush on Iran, August 12, 2005
• 'A strong unified message to the Iranians', President Bush and Chancellor Schroeder, June 27, 2005
• US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Iran, Iraq and North Korea, May 27, 2005
• US Policy Toward Iran, Under Secretary for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, May 26, 2005
• US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and UK Foreign Minister Jack Straw on Iran, May 19, 2005
• President Bush on Iran and North Korea, April 28, 2005
• 'U.S. to Lift Objections Against Iranian Bid to Join the WTO', US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice interview, March 11, 2005
• 'Are you prepared to do tough things to make sure that they don't get a nuclear weapon?' US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the EU and Iran, March 11, 2005
• 'Iran's cooperation falls far short of the standard and expectations set forth in this Board's last resolution', US Ambassador Jackie Wolcott Sanders, March 2, 2005
• President Bush on Iran and Syria, February 17, 2005
• Attack on Iran is 'not on the agenda at this point', US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, February 4, 2005
• '[T]he U.S. reserves all of its options with respect to Security Council', US Ambassador Jackie Sanders on Iran, January 28, 2005

Statements on North Korea

• US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the North Korea agreement, September 19, 2005
• Six Party Talks on North Korea's nuclear programme, Selected Comment, September 13 - 19, 2005
• Six Party Talks on North Korea's nuclear programme: Selected Statements from the Six Parties, July 26 - August 7, 2005
• Six Party Talks on North Korea's nuclear programme: US Opening Statement by Assistant Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill, July 26, 2005
• US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and South Korean Foreign Ministry Ban Ki-Moon on North Korea, July 13, 2005
• President Bush on Iran and North Korea, April 28, 2005
• US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs James Kelly explains the US proposal to the third round of Six Party Talks on North Korea's nuclear programme, July 15, 2004

Statements on the NPT

• President Bush statement on the NPT, March 7, 2005
• US Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control Stephen Rademaker on US objectives for the NPT Review Conference, April 28, 2005
• US Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary Mark Fitzpatrick on UNSCR 1540 and the NPT Review Conference, March 27, 2005
• US Compliance with Article VI of the NPT, US Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control Stephen Rademaker, February 3, 2005

Foreign Policy

• 'Global Intelligence Challenges 2005', Director of Central Intelligence Porter J. Goss March 2 on Terrorism and Proliferation, February 16, 2005
• President Bush, State of the Union address, February 2, 2005
• 'Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it', President Bush inauguration speech, January 20, 2005
• 'We must use American diplomacy to help create a balance of power in the world that favors freedom', Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Prepared Statement at Confirmation Hearing Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, January 18, 2005

US Presidential Election, 2004

• Kerry or Bush:
  What Future for US Security Policy?
  by John Isaacs, Disarmament Diplomacy, Issue No.78, July/August 2004

Speeches from Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates

• George W. Bush speech to the Republican National Convention, New York, September 2, 2004
• Dick Cheney speech to the Republican National Convention, New York, September 1, 2004
• '[P]reventing nuclear terrorism will be our highest priority', John Edwards, August 30, 2004
• John Kerry speech to the Democratic National Convention, July 29, 2004
• John Edwards speech to the Democratic National Convention, July 28, 2004

For coverage of US and Russian policy on WMD, nuclear weapons and missile defence, see: http://www.acronym.org.uk/start.

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