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CDI Fact Sheet: Legal Aspects Concerning the Militarization of Space

 

FY2004 Budget Request, OTE Waiver Provision

 

10 U.S.C. §2399

Operational test and evaluation of defense acquisition programs

 

10 U.S.C. §2430

Excerpt relates to procedures for waiver of the requirements for operational test and evaluation.

 

Arms Control Chronology
A record of arms control efforts undertaken since the beginning of the nuclear age through early 2002, compiled by Jack Mendelsohn, CDI Senior Associate and David Grahame, a Cambridge University honors Graduate. 154 pages, PDF.
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Statement by President Bush on U.S. Withdrawal from the ABM Treaty
June 13, 2002, statement by President George W. Bush marking U.S. withdrawal from the ABM Treaty.

 

ABM Treaty Fact Sheet
December 13, 2001, statement by the White House Press Secretary announcing the intention of the Bush administration to formally withdraw from the ABM Treaty.

 

National Missile Defense Act of 1999
The bill as it passed in both Houses of Congress

 

Nunn-McCurdy Amendment
As part of the Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1982, Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA) and Representative David McCurdy (D-OK) included language intended to limit cost growth in major weapons programs. Known as the Nunn-McCurdy amendment, the language called for the termination of weapons programs whose total costs grew by more than 25 percent above original estimates, unless they were certified as critical systems by the Secretary of Defense or if the cost growth was attributable to certain specified changes in the program.

 

1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

 

1991 START I and 1993 START II

 

1990 Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty

 

1987 Missile Technology Control Regime

 

1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty

 

1979 SALT II

 

1974 Threshold Test Ban Treaty

 

1974 Threshold Test Ban Treaty

 

1972 SALT I

 

1972 ABM Treaty
(its 1997 MOU re: TMD, 2001 announcement re: intent to withdraw)

 

1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty

 

1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty

 

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