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04-28-2005
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM AND NONPROLIFERATION SUBCOMMITTEE HOLDS A HEARING ON NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY
APRIL 28, 2005
SPEAKERS: U.S. REPRESENTATIVE EDWARD R. ROYCE (R-CA) CHAIRMAN U.S. REPRESENTATIVE PETER T. KING (R-NY) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE THOMAS G. TANCREDO, (R-CO) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE DARRELL ISSA (R-CA) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE MICHAEL MCCAUL (R-TX) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE TED POE (R-TX) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE JERRY WELLER (R-IL) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE J. GRESHAM BARRETT (R-SC) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE HENRY J. HYDE (R-IL) EX OFFICIO U.S. REPRESENTATIVE BRAD SHERMAN (D-CA) RANKING MEMBER U.S. REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT MENENDEZ (D-NJ) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT WEXLER (R-FL) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE JOSEPH CROWLEY (D-NY) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE BETTY MCCOLLUM (D-MN) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE DENNIS A. CARDOZA (D-CA) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE ADAM B. SCHIFF (D-CA) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE TOM LANTOS (D-CA) EX OFFICIO WITNESSES: STEPHEN RADEMAKER ASSISTANT SECRETARY BUREAU OF ARMS CONTROL STATE DEPARTMENT HENRY SOKOLSKI EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NONPROLIFERATION POLICY EDUCATION CENTER JEAN DU PREEZ DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS NONPROLIFERATION PROGRAM MONTEREY INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES CENTER FOR NON-PROLIFERATION PROGRAM JOSEPH CIRINCIONE DIRECTOR NONPROLIFERATION CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE [*] ROYCE: This hearing of the subcommittee will come to order. This hearing is previewing the NPT review conference. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference opens on Monday in New York. The conference has been held every five years since the treaty entered into force in 1970. This conference confronts some high hurdles. There is no agreed-upon agenda. A successful conference is far from certain.
Several developments have changed the landscape since the 2000 review conference, and those developments are principally 9/11, which has intensified concern about nuclear terrorism, North Korea's withdrawal from the NPT and Pyongyang's that it possesses nuclear weapons, the discovery of the sophisticated A.Q. Khan black market in nuclear technology, raising worries about undetected similar networks around the globe, and the surfacing of Iran's uranium enrichment capabilities, and its consequent progress towards developing nuclear weapons.
North Korea and Iran are state sponsors of terrorism. We are all concerned about their possible proliferation of nuclear technology and material to terrorist groups. The most notable positive is Libya, which, with US aid, disassembled its clandestine nuclear weapons program in 2003, after detection by the U.S. and the U.K. <...>
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