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Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)


1997 Congressional Hearings

CONFIRMATION OF WILLIAM S. COHEN AS SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
JANUARY 22, 1997 - SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE

The Future of Nuclear Deterrence
February 12, 1997 - Senate Governmental Affairs
Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation, and Federal Services

ENGAGING THE HERMIT KINGDOM:
U.S. POLICY TOWARD THE KOREAN PENINSULA
FEBRUARY 26, 1997 - HOUSE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC SUBCOMMITTEE

Federal Response to Terrorist Incidents Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction
28 February 1997 House National Security Military Research & Development

  • CURT WELDON CHAIRMAN, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT SUBCOMMITTEE
  • H. Allen Holmes Assistant Secretary of Defense (Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict)
  • Phillip C. Wilcox, Jr. Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism Department of State.
  • Jeffrey M. David - Office of Special Technology, Program Manager for Technical Support Working Group National Programs, Department of Defense
  • James R. Lawrence - Office of Special Technology, Program Manager for Technical Support Working Group International Programs, Department of Defense
  • Chief Gary Marrs Oklahoma City Fire Department
    UNOFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT

Foreign Relations Authorization for FY 1998-99 - U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency March 5, 1997 House Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights

THREAT REDUCTION AND COUNTERPROLIFERATION POLICY
March 5 Strategic Forces Subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee

  • Franklin C. Miller Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy

FY 1998 NAVY/MARINE CORPS ACQUISITION
MARCH 6, 1997 HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS NATIONAL SECURITY SUBCOMMITTEE

  • STATEMENT OF THE HONORABLE JOHN W. DOUGLASS ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND ACQUISITION) AND VICE ADMIRAL DONALD L. PILLING, USN DEPUTY CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS RESOURCES, WARFARE REQUIREMENTS AND ASSESSMENTS AND LIEUTENANT GENERAL JEFFREY W. OSTER, USMC DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF PROGRAMS & RESOURCES

U.S. Assistance to the Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union
11 March 1997 - House Committee on International Relations

FY 1998 security assistance budget request for foreign operations
12 March 1997 Senate subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export and Trade Promotion

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND NUCLEAR WASTE DISPOSAL BUDGET
MARCH 12, 1997 HOUSE APPROPRIATIONSENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT

RUSSIAN MISSILE DETARGETING AND NUCLEAR DOCTRINE
March 13, 1997 HOUSE NATIONAL SECURITY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT SUBCOMMITTEE

Strategic Force Posture
13 MARCH 1997 SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE

FY 1998 BUDGET REQUEST FOR NONPROLIFERATION AND NATIONAL SECURITY
18 March 1997 - House Appropriations Energy and Water Development Subcommittee

  • Kenneth E. Baker Office of Nonproliferation and National Security U.S. Department of Energy
  • Victor Reis Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs Department of Energy

FY DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 1998 BUDGET OVERVIEW
19 March 1997 - Senate Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee

FY DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 1998 BUDGET OVERVIEW
19 March 1997 - House Appropriations Energy and Water Development Subcommittee

FY DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 1998 BUDGET OVERVIEW
20 March 1997 - Senate Armed Services Committee

  • Federico Pena Secretary U.S. Department of Energy

Chemical Weapons Convention 
April 8, 1997 Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Chemical Weapons Convention 
April 9, 1997 Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Aid to Eastern Europe and the New Independent States
April 9, 1997 - House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations

  • Thomas A. Dine, Assistant Administrator Bureau of Europe and the New Independent States United States Agency for International Development
  • James H. Holmes Coordinator for East European Assistance U.S. Department of State
  • Ambassador Richard L. Morningstar Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State on Assistance to the New Independent States

FY 1998 Department of Energy authorization request
April 10, 1997 - House National Security procurement subcommittee

China and Proliferation
April 10, 1997 - Senate Governmental Affairs
Subcommittee on International security, Proliferation and Federal Services

COMPUTER EXPORT CONTROLS
April 15, 1997 - House National Security procurement subcommittee

  • Harold Johnson GAO Associate Director, International Relations and Trade
  • Gary Milhollin Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control
  • Stephen D. Bryen former deputy undersecretary of defense for technology security
  • William Reinsch, undersecretary of commerce for export administration
  • Victor H. Reis Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs, U.S. Department of Energy
  • Kenneth E. Baker Acting Director, Office of Nonproliferation and National Security, U.S. Department of Energy

Chemical Weapons Convention 
April 15, 1997 Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Chemical Weapons Convention 
April 17, 1997 Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Proliferation: Chinese Case Studies, Part II [CLOSED] 
17 April 1997 - Senate Governmental Affairs
Subcommittee on International security, Proliferation and Federal Services

  • Gordon Oehler, Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence for Nonproliferation, and Director, DCI's Nonproliferation Center

IRAN AND PROLIFERATION: IS THE U.S. DOING ENOUGH? 
APRIL 17, 1997 SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS 
NEAR EASTERN AND SOUTH ASIAN AFFAIRS SUBCOMMITTEE

SINO-AMERICAN RELATIONS AND U.S. POLICY OPTIONS
April 23, 1997 House International Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs

THE ARMING OF IRAN: WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?
MAY 6, 1997 SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS 
NEAR EASTERN AND SOUTH ASIAN AFFAIRS SUBCOMMITTEE

NORTH KOREAN, IRANIAN, AND WORLDWIDE MISSILE THREATS 
May 7, 1997 House National Security Subcommittee on Military Research and Development

Chemical Weapons Implementing Legislation
May 13, 1997 - SENATE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

  • Richard L. Shiffrin Dep. Assistant Attorney General
  • Ronald Rotunda U. of Illinois College of Law
  • Bruce Merrifield Chairman & CEO, Pridtronics
  • Barry Kellman DePaul U. College of Law

THE FUTURE OF THE EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT
MAY 13, 1997 - HOUSE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

PROLIFERATION: RUSSIAN CASE STUDIES
June 5, 1997 Senate Governmental Affairs
Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation, and Federal Services

Proliferation and U.S. Export Controls
June 11, 1997, Senate Government Affairs
International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services Subcommittee

Threats Posed by Electromagnetic Pulse to U.S. Military Systems and Civilian Infrastructure
July 16, 1997 House Military Research & Development Subcommittee

Iran Libya Sanctions Act
23 July 1997 - House International Relations Committee

Missile Proliferation in the Information Age
22 September 1997 - Senate Government Affairs
International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services Subcommittee

  • William R. Graham, former Science Advisor to President Reagan, and former Deputy Administrator of NASA;
  • W. Seth Carus, Visiting Fellow, National Defense University
  • General Bernard A. Schriever, United States AirForce (retired), former Commander of Air Force Systems Command

Security of Russian nuclear weapons
01 October 1997 - House Military Research and Development Subcommittee

  • Opening Statement of the Honorable Curt Weldon
  • Jessica Stern, Formerly National Security Council Staff Member
  • Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, Director, Office of Emergency Response Defense Programs, Department of Energy
  • Arnold Warshawsky, Technology Assessment Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Arnaud de Borchgrave, Director, Global Organized Crime task Force
  • Frank Cilluffo, Director, Russian Organized Crime Task Force
  • William H. Webster, Chairman, Global Organized Crime Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies
    HEARING TRANSCRIPT

Security of Russian nuclear weapons
02 October 1997 - House Military Research and Development Subcommittee

Implementation of the U.S.-China Nuclear Cooperation Agreement: Whose Interests Are Served?
October 7, 1997 - House International Relations Committee

Proliferation and U.S.-China Nuclear Cooperation
October 8, 1997 - Senate Foreign Relations Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Subcommittee

North Korea Proliferation
21 October 1997 - Senate Governmental Affairs
International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services Subcommittee

Comprehensive Review of U.S. Sanctions Policy
October 23, 1997 House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee

Safety and Reliability of the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent
27 October 1997 - Senate Governmental Affairs
Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services

  • James R. Schlesinger, Former Secretary of Energy
  • Victor H. Reis Assistant Secretary of Energy for Defense Programs
  • C. Bruce Tarter, Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Robert B. Barker, Assistant to the Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    HEARING TRANSCRIPT

Safety and Reliability of the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
October 29, 1997 Senate Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee

Iran-Libya Sanctions Act
October 30, 1997, Senate Banking Committee

  • James Harmon, President and Chairman, Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank)
  • Richard Newcomb, Treasury Department Director Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
  • William C. Ramsay Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Energy, Sanctions and Commodities

Federal response to domestic terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction
status of Department of Defense support program
04 November 1997 - House Military Research and Development Subcommittee

  • Opening Statement of Curt Weldon
  • Ike Skelton, Member of Congress
  • Robert M. Blitzer, Section Chief, Domestic Terrorism Planning Section, FBI
  • Catherine H. Light, Director, Terrorism Coordination Unit, FEMA
  • James Q. Roberts, Principal Director, Deputy Secretary of Defense (Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict)
  • Lisa E. Gordon-Haggerty, Director, Office of Emergency Response, DOE
  • Raymond Dominquez, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Forces and Resources), Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict)
  • Mitchel B. Wallerstein Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counterproliferation Policy
  • Major General Edward Soriano, Director of Military Assistance, Headquarters, Dept. of Army
  • Major General George E. Friel, Commander, US Army Chemical-Biological Defense Command

Ballistic missile threat posed by Iran
H.R. 2786 -- The Iran Missile Protection Act of 1997 (IMPACT 1997) 
05 November 1997 - House Military Research and Development Subcommittee

U.S. supercomputer export control policy
13 November 1997 House National Security Committee

  • Opening Statement of Floyd Spence
  • Mitchel Wallerstein, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterproliferation Policy, Department of Defense
  • William A. Reinsch, Under Secretary for Export Administration, Department of Commerce
  • Gary Milhollin, Executive Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control
  • Stephen Bryen, Former Director, Defense Technology Security Administration, Department of Defense




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