Missile Nuclear War

SOFTWAR via Newsmax ^ | Wednesday, May 29, 2002 | Charles Smith

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> http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/5/28/193239.shtml
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> 1994 FOIA documents on Chinese M-11 missiles for Pakistan
> http://www.softwar.net/beijing.html
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> MISSILE NUCLEAR WAR
> NEW MISSILES IN IRAN AND PAKISTAN RAISE FEAR OF WORLD WAR III
>
> By
> Charles R. Smith
>
> Many Pentagon critics continue to use the successful September
> 11 terror attack on America to suggest that the U.S. does not
> need a sophisticated missile defense have.  The critics argue
> that an expensive missile defense system will be useless against
> future unconventional strikes against America.
>
> Yet, the nation states that have been directly associated with
> global terrorism are working feverishly to develop some very
> conventional weaponry aimed at America.  The Bush "Axis of Evil"
> and friends are working hard to deploy advanced, long-range,
> missiles armed with nuclear warheads.  These missiles are
> pointed at Israel, India, Taiwan and the United States.
>
> IRANIAN MISSILES
>
> Iran announced on May 20 that it test fired the Shahab-3, a
> long-range missile capable of reaching Israel and southern
> Europe.  The latest Shahab-3 launch occurred on May 5 in Iran's
> Semnan region.  The Shahab missile is reported to be a duplicate
> of the North Korean No Dong missile.
>
> The recent Shahab-3 flight is reported to be the fifth
> successful test of the long-range missile.  The 1,000-kilometer
> flight test was the first full trial of the missile, showcasing
> substantial advances in engine, warhead and navigation systems.
>
> The Iranian government has carefully hidden the extensive
> missile program.  However, numerous North Korean engineers
> associated with its No Dong missile program have been inside
> Iran, assisting Tehran's grab for new long-range weapons.
>
> According to national security sources inside Capitol Hill, Iran
> has accelerated its missile development program using oil
> revenue from sales to the west to finance its North Korean made
> missile program.
>
> "Iran is trading oil in exchange for missile technology," stated
> a Congressional national security advisor that requested he not
> be identified.
>
> "The three main sources of Iranian missile technology are
> Russia, China and North Korea.  The Shahab-3 is reported to be
> an improved version of North Korean No Dong missile."
>
> Top Iranian officials pledged further development of the Islamic
> Republic's missile program.  Iranian Defense Minister Ali
> Shamkhani stated that Tehran plans to continue its efforts "to
> promote the power and precision of Shahab-3 missile."
>
> ISRAELI ARROW NOT READY
>
> Iran's successful test of its Shahab-3 missile has raised fears
> in Israel about a growing vulnerability to ballistic missile
> attack.  The Israeli missile Arrow missile defense system
> continues to suffer delays and a dispute has halted the
> anti-missile defense facility at Ein Shemer, located in Northern
> Israel.  The Ein Shemer Arrow site was to be completed by
> mid-2002.
>
> However, a dispute between the Israeli Defense Ministry and
> local residents concerned about the adverse side effects of the
> facility's high-frequency radar has brought construction to a
> standstill.  This deadlock has left the north of the country
> undefended against the new Iranian Shahab-3 missile.
>
> The Bush administration raised concerns with Russia for
> supporting Iranian efforts to construct a nuclear power plant.
> The concern is that the nuclear reactor may be used by Tehran to
> construct atomic warheads for its Shahab-3 missiles.  The Bush
> administration pressed Russian President Putin on this issue,
> threatening to withhold economic assistance to Moscow unless
> reconsiders its nuclear program with Iran.
>
> RUSSIAN REACTION
>
> The Russians have reacted swiftly to allegations of missile
> assistance by U.S. sources.  Russian Foreign Minister Igor
> Ivanov rejected the U.S. claims of Moscow's nuclear and missile
> assistance to Tehran as "groundless."
>
> "Russia sticks firmly to international obligations, and we have
> repeatedly told the United States this," stated Ivanov.
>
> "Cooperation between Russia and Iran is not of a character that
> would undermine the process of non-proliferation," said Russian
> President Putin during a recent news conference.
>
> However, Putin quietly told his U.S. counterpart that Russia
> would work with America on this issue.  President Bush noted
> that Putin had agreed to international inspections of Iran's
> Bushehr nuclear reactor to determine whether the Russian-aided
> project is helping Iran's nuclear weapons program.
>
> In contrast, the Clinton administration paid little more than
> lip service to the Iranian weapons development program.  The
> Clinton administration did no more than denounce a previous test
> of the Shahab-3, which it said could reach Israel or U.S. troops
> in Saudi Arabia.
>
> "We regard their aggressive efforts to develop missile
> capability as a serious threat," said Clinton's State Department
> deputy spokesman Philip Reeker during a State Department news
> conference.
>
> PAKISTANI MISSILES
>
> Pakistan has joined Iran in firing off a series of missile
> tests, raising tensions with neighboring nuclear rival India.
> On May 25th, Islamabad conducted a high-profile launch of its
> Guari nuclear-capable medium-range rocket.
>
> The "Guari" test was followed on May 26th by the first public
> trial of Pakistan' s indigenously developed Hatf-III short-range
> missile, capable of striking Indian troops massed along the
> tense border between the two countries.  Pakistan also conduced
> a third missile test, using a 180 kilometer-range Hatf-II
> missile that was test fired by the Pakistani army on May 28th.
>
> It is well known that Pakistan's source of missile and nuclear
> weapons technology is China.  During the Clinton years, Pakistan
> reportedly obtained 34 Chinese made Dong Feng 11 missiles, each
> reportedly equipped with a 20-kiloton nuclear warhead.  The
> export of the nuclear tipped missiles by Beijing was a direct
> violation of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) signed
> by China.
>
> According to documents obtained from the Clinton administration,
> China sold Pakistan the 34 nuclear tipped DF-11 missiles in
> 1992.  The DF-11 missiles, exported as the M-11, are based at
> Sargodha air force base, west of Lahore, next to the Pakistani
> plutonium reactor at Khushab.
>
> The Clinton administration ignored the illegal nuclear weapons
> sale, only imposing sanctions in August 1993 for "missile parts"
> exported to Pakistan in violation of the MTCR treaty.  The
> Clinton ban was lifted just prior to a visit to Beijing by Loral
> aerospace CEO Bernard Schwartz.  Schwartz is well known in
> Democrat party circles mainly due to the million dollars in
> donations that he gave Bill and Hillary Clinton.
>
> In August 1994, Ron Brown wrote a briefing document for
> Schwartz.  That document is one of many from the withheld files
> of Ron Brown obtained by this author using the Freedom of
> Information Act.  The document is a pre-China briefing report
> prepared for the Loral CEO in August of 1994 by Commerce and is
> titled "Background Information".
>
> "EXPORT CONTROLS.  Last August (1993), the U.S. imposed
> sanctions on China for an M-11 missile-related transfer to
> Pakistan.  On January 7, 1994 it was decided that although
> communications satellites licensed by the State Department are
> covered by the sanctions law, export licenses for communications
> satellites licensed by the Department of Commerce may be
> approved.  Two such export licenses for communications
> satellites were recently approved by the Department of
> Commerce".
>
> In August 1994 Schwarz met with Chinese General Shen Rong-Jun
> with the personal approval of then President Bill Clinton.  Gen.
> Shen eventually would purchase Loral space technology and sell
> satellite launch systems to Loral with the personal approval of
> President Bill Clinton.
>
> CHINESE MISSILE PROLIFERATION
>
> Today, President Bush is aware that China continues to be a
> primary source of illegal missile and nuclear weapons exports.
> The Bush administration recently imposed sanctions against a
> Chinese army owned company, warning Beijing to curb its missile
> exports.
>
> However, unlike Moscow, Beijing is unwilling to honor its
> treaties banning such exports and is, in fact, rapidly expanding
> its own missile forces.  Chinese Maj. Gen. Huang Bin, a
> professor at the PLA's National Defense University and a noted
> military strategist, recently predicted that China would win a
> future conflict with Taiwan and defeat any U.S. efforts to
> assist the island nation.
>
> "From the military angle, the 'crises' in the Taiwan Strait
> occurring in 1995, 1996, and 1999 were no 'crises' in a military
> sense...  Actually, we conducted some military exercises in
> coordination with the political struggle.  In March 1996, we
> just test-fired some missiles and had no plan to attack Taiwan,"
> wrote Gen. Huang.
>
> "It was true that a U.S. aircraft carrier arrived but suddenly
> fell back by 200 nautical miles, as Chinese nuclear submarines
> were operating close to the U.S. aircraft carriers, I think that
> the United States was somewhat worried because aircraft carriers
> are not secure against assault.  It can be seen from this that
> Taiwan's reliance on the United States is unreliable and that
> once its own security is threatened, it will run away at once,"
> noted General Huang.
>
> "Once a military conflict occurs in the Taiwan Strait, The
> United States certainly will intervene, but the scale will be
> limited.  The U.S. may send several aircraft-carrier battle, but
> they will never dare to sail to the Taiwan Strait to get into a
> dangerous position.  It should be known that an aircraft carrier
> has many blind angles of safety.  Missiles, aircraft, and
> submarines all are means that can be used to attack an aircraft
> carrier," wrote Gen. Huang.
>
> "The United States likes vain glory; if one of its aircraft
> carrier should be attacked and destroyed, people in the United
> States would begin to complain and quarrel loudly, and the U.S.
> President would find the going harder and harder.  The United
> States is also afraid of China and wants to do everything
> possible to avoid a war.  Of course, if a war broke out, China
> would be determined to fight and would never flinch," concluded
> the Chinese General.
>
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[backhoe]

Be sure to visit SoftWar! ( third link ) for info you will find nowhere else on defense technology.

[Wave Rider]

The best that could happen as I have quoted in prior clips that it would be better for us to pull out and let them have at it with each and then Back the one who comes out of the Dust afterwards, if their is any Part of the Middle East Left.

In Terms that is easier to understand is that the World would Not have to support <>1.9 Billion two legged A*s Backward Animals anymore...

[boris]

"Many Pentagon critics continue to use the successful September 11 terror attack on America to suggest that the U.S. does not need a sophisticated missile defense have."

Yoda overdose?

[backhoe]

I'm inclined to agree.

[backhoe]

Charlie's a pretty good writer- I'm surprised that one by slipped...

[elbucko]

".. Loral aerospace CEO Bernard Schwartz. Schwartz is well known in Democrat party circles....."

If the Paki's launch, arrest "Bernie" and charge him with espionage and int'l war crimes.

[elbucko]

"Be sure to visit SoftWar! ( third link )"

Done. Interesting. Bkmk'd for later reading. Thanks.

[backhoe]

I don't think General Huang understands our people at all

No, he doesn't get it at all. Mayhap he got too many impressions of us from our mass media, which shows a vain, degenerate culture.

I've worried about America rotting from the inside, but when I saw all those people rushing up the WTC towers to save people, I knew we were fine. Our elites may be degenerate, the average American is just fine.

It took a rural, rather isolationist America about 4 years to wake up and pound the "Thousand-Year Reich" into a smoking heap of rubble and ruins- this guy had better tread real, real carefully...

[sheik yerbouty]

I agree. I also think that the Paks should squashed as they are in bed with Al Qaida, and the other jihadists. India is not. In any case, India would be the winner in a conflict between India and Pakistan, if only by virtue of simply being a much larger country.

[backhoe]

Forgot to get back to you- be sure to take some time to poke around Charlie's SoftWar! site- it isn't organized very well, and you really have to dig around, or know exactly what you want- but he has a lot of good stuff.

Other good sites?

-Bill Gertz's Site-- China/Panama/ & more

-AviationNow--

-The Center for Security Policy--

[Tailgunner Joe]

[backhoe]

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