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1996 Congressional Hearings

CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DEFENSE
March 12, 1996 - Committee on National Security, Subcommittee on Military Research and Development

• Mark E. Gebicke, GAO - Director, Military Operations and Capabilities Issues, National Security and International Affairs Division

THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY'S BUDGET REQUEST FOR FY 1997
House Committee on National Security Subcommittee on Military Procurement March 12, 1996
Senate Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces March 13, 1996

• Joan B. Rohlfing Director Office of Nonproliferation and National Security Department of Energy
• C. Bruce Tarter, Director Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [particularly STEMMING THE PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND OTHER WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION]
• Assuring Confidence in the U.S. Nuclear Stockpile prepared statement of Harold P. Smith Jr., assistant to the secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs,

NUCLEAR LEAKAGE FROM THE POST-SOVIET STATES
13 March 1996 - Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

• Senator Sam Nunn [exerpts]
• DR. WILLIAM C. POTTER Director of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies
• Graham Allison Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and Director, Center for Science and International Affairs John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

FY 1997 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION BILL
13 March 1996 - Senate Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee

• Joan B. Rohlfing Director Office of Nonproliferation and National Security Department of Energy

Security of Taiwan
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE ON ASIA AND THE PACIFIC - MARCH 14, 1996

• WINSTON LORD ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS

Policy Toward Korean Peninsula
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE ON ASIA AND THE PACIFIC - MARCH 19, 1996

• WINSTON LORD ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS

Security Challenges: China
20 March 1996 - House National Security Committee

• Arthur N. Waldron, Professor of Strategy and Policy, U.S. Naval War College

WORLDWIDE DEMAND FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS MATERIALS
20 March 1996 - SENATE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS

U.S. Strategic Command
21 March 1996 - Senate Armed Services Committee

• U.S. Strategic Command: Peace Is Still Our Profession prepared remarks of Gen. Eugene E. Habiger, USAF, commander in chief, U.S. Strategic Command

WORLDWIDE DEMAND FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS MATERIALS
22 March 1996 - SENATE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS

• Thomas McNamara Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs
• CHARLES B. CURTIS DEPUTY SECRETARY OF ENERGY

WORLDWIDE DEMAND FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS MATERIALS
20 March 1996 - SENATE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS

• John Deutch Director of Central Intelligence
• Chronology of Nuclear Smuggling Incidents

The Continuing Threat from Weapons of Mass Destruction
3/27/96 - Senate Armed Services Committee

• Dr. Gordon C. Oehler, Director, Nonproliferation Center to the Senate Armed Services Committee - Statement for the Record

Global Proliferation Threats
19 June 1996 - House Committee on International Relations

• Dr. Lynn E. Davis Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs
• Sven F. Kraemer, Former Director of Arms Control, National Security Council Staff, 1981-1987

Clinton Administration's Response to the Threat Posed by Proliferation
20 June 1996 - House National Security Committee
Military Procurement Subcommittee and Military Research and Development Subcommittee

• Rep. Duncan Hunter, Chair, Subcommittee on Military Procurement
• Rep. Curt Weldon, Chair, Subcommittee on Military Research and Development
• Dr. Mitchel B. Wallerstein, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counterproliferation Policy

Export Controls
31 July 1996 - Senate Banking Subcommittee on International Finance and Monetary Policy

• William Reinsch Under Secretary of Commerce

U.S. POLICY TOWARDS NORTH KOREA
SEPTEMBER 12, 1996 - SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE SUBCOMMITTEE ON EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS

• MARK MINTON, DIRECTOR OFFICE OF KOREAN AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Consequences of China's Military Sales to Iran
September 12, 1996 - House Committee on International Relations

• Seth Carus Research Analyst Center for Naval Analyses
• Michael Eisenstadt Military Fellow Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Leonard Spector Senior Fellow Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

NUCLEAR WEAPONS - RUSSIA'S REQUEST FOR THE EXPORT OF U.S. COMPUTERS FOR STOCKPILE MAINTENANCE
September 30, 1996 - Subcommittee on Military Procurement, Committee on National Security, House of Representatives

• Harold J. Johnson, GAO Associate Director, International Relations and Trade Issues, National Security and International Affairs Division