Defense Implications of Arms Control; Summary of the Sixth Annual InternationalConference on Controlling Arms, held in Norfolk, Virginia on 2-5 June 1997

摘要

The Defense Implications of Arms Control is a report on the substantivepresentations and discussions of the Defense Special Weapons Agency's Sixth Annual International Conference on Controlling Arms. The conference is organized each year to provide a multinational forum for the topics that comprise the policies, technologies, and operations of arms control, including treaty arrangements, cooperative threat reduction, and proliferation prevention and response. The 1997 meeting was held at the Waterside Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Norfolk, Virginia, from 2 to 5 June. This report is a summary of the conference sessions, based on rapporteurs' notes and, in some cases, written material provided by presenters. The speech by the Honorable John D. Holum, Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), is presented verbatim as furnished by ACDA's Public Affairs office. The speeches by the Honorable Harold P. Smith, Jr., and Ambassador Robert L. Gallucci, as presented herein, are summaries based on transcriptions.