Bush stressed that export controls must be strengthened to prevent nuclear chemical and biological weapons proliferation. However a successful non-proliferation strategy must address the underlying security concerns that drive the quest to obtain advanced weapons and must encompass contingency planning to deal with these weapons should prevention fail.
Bush said the US was pursuing a three tiered non-proliferation strategy to strengthen existing arrangements to expand the membership of multilateral regimes directed against proliferation and to pursue new initiatives such as the chemical weapons convention and the initiative he launched in May for West Asia.
Bush said We have already tightened export controls streamlining expert-licensing procedures while taking full account of security needs. New standards will ensure the export of supercomputers will be subject to stringent safeguards against misuse. Criminal penalties and other sanctions against those who contribute to proliferation will be expanded.
Since missile proliferation of forts will surely persist said Bush we and our MTCR (missile technology control regime) partners must improve controls broaden membership further and reinforce the emerging international consensus against the spread of the missile technology.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 23, 1991
