Home: Theater Missile Defense Cooperation


Arms Control Policies & Transfer of High Technology Weapons
Missile Defense Agency: The Threat
---Evolution: TMD and International Programs
---Missile Defense Glossary (PDF)

Defense Security Cooperation Agency, DOD

National Missile Defense: International Aspects
Foreign Reactions to US Missile Defense Plans
Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation

Directorate of Defense Trade Controls--US State Department
State agency "charged with controlling the export and temporary import of defense articles and defense services covered by the United States Munitions List (USML). It has among its primary missions (a) taking final action on license applications for defense trade exports and (b) handling matters related to defense trade compliance, enforcement, and reporting.

Foreign Military Sales & The United States Munitions List (not DOD: Center For International Policy)
What defense materials can be sold by the United States

Defense Trade Controls: Export of Defense Articles and Defense Services to India and Pakistan
Department of State, June 20, 2003 announcement of "case by case" export questions

US India High-Technology Cooperation
Commerce Department, United States

Defining TMD
FAS

GAO Reports

Theater Missile Defense Cooperation Account: (A failed congressional scheme to get allied funding)
April, 1995

---House & Senate discussion of "Theater Missile Defense Cooperation Account"during '94 Defense Authorization

Theater Missile Defenese: Interest Among Allies (CRS)
1994

US/ Arrow Cooperation: Needs More US Regulation
1993

Ballistic Missile Defense: Evolution and Current Issues
1993

The SDI Program: Extent of Foreign Participation
1990

Defense Trade: Better Information Needed to Support Decisions Affecting Proposed
Weapons Transfers, July 2003
GAO-03-694

Foreign Military Sales: Review Process for Controlled Missile
Technology Needs Improvement. GAO/NSIAD-99-231. Washington, D.C.:
September 29, 1999.

Defense Trade: Status of the Department of Defense's Initiatives on
Defense Cooperation. GAO/NSIAD-00-190R. Washington, D.C.: July 19,
2000.

Export Controls: Regulatory Change Needed to Comply with Missile
Technology Licensing Requirements. GAO-01-530. Washington, D.C.: May
31, 2001.

Export Controls: Processes for Determining Proper Control of Defense-
Related Items Need Improvement. GAO-02-996. Washington, D.C.: September
20, 2002.

Congressional Hearings
Compliance Review Process & Missile Defense, Committee on Gov. Affairs, Senate. (PDF)
July 21, 1997

Proliferation and US Export Controls, Committee on Gov. Affairs, Senate.(PDF)
June 11, 1997: A focus on dual-use technologies, particularly super-computers


Senate Committee Advances Export-Control Reform Legislation
22 March 2001, Washington File

Arms Export Control Regimes
MTCR Info Page
Government of Canada

MTCR Members Amend Missile Nonproliferation Guidelines; Include “Catch-All” Provisions
Global Security Newswire, Sept. 30, 2003

United States: MTCR Could Hinder Missile Defense Cooperation
Global Security News Wire, July 11, 2003

US process of approving arms exports

Understanding the Missile Technology Control Regime
---Items of the MTCR


Missile Technology Control Regime: Gov Documents/Statements (FAS)

MTCR Negotiation Sessions and History
FAS compilation of l MTCR meeting session notes and outcomes

History of 1987 MTCR
Center for Non-Proliferation Studies

Revisions to the Export Administration Regulations Based on the
2002 Missile Technology Control Regime Plenary Agreements

Federal Registrar, Sept. 18, 2003


Center for International Trade & Security
University of Georgia

The BMD Transfer Debate

Cooperation in BMD & TMD
Arms Control Reporter

India and Missile Defense
The Center for Security Policy

Vajpayee, Bush May Explore Tie-Up in Missile Defense
The Hindu, September 22, 2003

SDI: The Next Generation
Ken Adelman, Tuesday, July 08, 2003

The Arrow Theater Missile System: What Is It and How Was it Produced?
CDI, 10/2003

The China Factor in the India-Pakistan Conflict
Parameters, US Army War College Quarterly, Spring 2003

China supplied missile technology to Pak.: CIA
The Hindu, September 9, 2003

How and Why China Proliferates Ballistic Missiles to Pakistan
Rediff special, August 20, 2000

Theater Missile Defense and South Asia: A Volatile Mix (PDF)
Center for Non-Proliferation Studies

Missile Non-Proliferation and Missile Defense
Henry Sokolski, Heritage Foundation, Sept. 6, 2002
Sokolski asks why the US is sharing sensitive Arrow technology with a state that it has no long term BMD partnership with.

A Much Less Explosive Trend [Short range missiles are the threat]
J. Cirincione, Carnegie Endowment for Inter. Peace

Military Perspectives on BMD (Massive list of resources)
US Air Force Librarian Stephen B.T. Chun

Reagan Administration Statements on BMD (PDF)
Princeton page referencing dozens of articles, press statements, op/ed's, etc.

ABM Treaty Timeline
(FAS)

US BMD Technology Partnerships; Compiled by Center for Defense Information

Taiwan-US Cooperation
US-Taiwan Anti-Ballistic Missile Defense Cooperation Act: House of Representatives

Report to Congress on Theater Missile Defense Architecture Options for Asia-Pacific Region

Clinton Administration Agrees to Taiwan Patriot Sale

Media
Washington Technology Defense Page

High Technology & The Military
Pentagon backs spiral development, June 9, 2003
"The directive called for program offices writing contracts to identify the capabilities they needed, but not the end requirements. Instead, a program office would maintain a tight feedback loop with its contractors, designing the solution piece by piece. "Build a little, test a little, build a little," is how industry experts described the process. "

Ronald Reagan and BMD Cooperation Abroad
Reagan BMD Partnerships

Research Resources
Missile Wars: Frontline
World Missile Chart: CEIP

University of Michigan Gov Docs
THOMAS--US Congress on the Internet
World News Connection
The Internet Public Library: World News
Yahoo! News: Missile Defense