-Caveat Lector-
So much of this problem has been the result of the Clinton's
administration's basic lack of foresight in their self-centered
relations with China and Russia.
Thursday July 8 9:00 AM ET
U.S. Unprepared For Growing Weapons Threat-Report
BALTIMORE (Reuters) - A high-level federal government commission
has concluded that the United States is ill-prepared to combat
the growing threat of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons
proliferation, the Baltimore Sun reported Thursday.
Commission members were particularly alarmed by the continuing
economic meltdown in Russia, said the newspaper, which obtained
an early copy of the panel's report, due out next week. The panel
is headed by former director of the Central Intelligence Agency
John Deutch.
The report cites seven instances since 1992 in which
weapons-usable fissile materials were stolen. Russia does not
know how much material it has, and it is increasingly vulnerable
because of power outages, unpaid guards and sporadic violence,
the newspaper said.
``The No. 1 threat that needs attention is the continued
disintegration of Russia as a civil society,'' one commission
member told the Sun. This member ranked the Russian problem as
high, if not higher, than the threat to the United States from
ballistic missiles that was cited by a previous panel headed by
former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Other dangers noted were those resulting from China's export of
missiles and dangerous technology; efforts by more than a dozen
extremist groups to get nuclear, chemical or biological weapons;
North Korea and other hostile states with the ability to
manufacture such weapons; and instability in the Middle East, and
South and East Asia.
The problem is made ever more complex by the growth of technology
that can be used both commercially and in weapons, according to
the commission.
But the federal government's ability to respond to this threat is
hamstrung by a series of policy and bureaucratic obstacles, the
panel says.
``The commission finds that the U.S. government is not
effectively organized to combat proliferation,'' it says in a
summary of the 140-plus page report.
The Sun reported that few government agencies escaped criticism
from the commission, which found in general that the United
States is plagued by inadequate technology to cope with the
problem.
The panel urged the president to name a National Director for
Combating Proliferation.
The 18-month-old panel was created by Congress to assess how the
government is dealing with the proliferation threat and to make
recommendations.
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