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Kerry to Outline Nonproliferation Strategy Today
U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), the presumptive Democratic candidate for the 2004 presidential election, is set to outline today what his advisers have said is a more aggressive nonproliferation policy than the one followed by the Bush administration, according to the Los Angeles Times (see GSN, May 28). In a speech to be given this afternoon in Florida, Kerry is expected to argue that even a small increase to the U.S. annual funding level of about $1 billion for threat reduction programs would result in significant benefits, according to the Times. In addition, Kerry is also expected to call for the appointment of a high-level official to lead threat reduction efforts, an increase in first responders to respond to WMD incidents within the United States and increased diplomatic efforts to halt suspected nuclear weapons efforts by Iran and North Korea, the Times reported (James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, June 1). In an interview Friday with the New York Times, Kerry stressed the need to secure WMD stockpiles in Russia and other former Soviet states. “I mean either this is deadly serious or it’s not. Now when you sit with any expert they’ll tell you it’s the most serious thing in the world. Well, if it is, why aren’t we treating it as if it were? And we’re not,” he said. “I’m going to make it serious. It’s going to be the top priority,” Kerry added (New York Times, May 30).
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