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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 20. Mars
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19. Mars 1998, 21. Mars 1998
03/20/1998
FIRST DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE THAT U.S. PRESIDENTS PREDELEGATED
NUCLEAR WEAPONS RELEASE AUTHORITY TO THE MILITARY
Newly Declassified Documents Published by the National Security
Archive this Month
WASHINGTON, D.C. - 20 March 1998 -- Recently declassified U.S.
government documents, now published by the National Security
Archive disclose one of the Cold War's deepest secrets, that during
the most dangerous phases of the U.S.-Soviet confrontation during
the early 1960s top military commanders had
presidentially-authorized instructions providing advance authority
to use nuclear weapons under specified emergency conditions. The
documents show that President Eisenhower approved "predelegation"
instructions in late 1959 so that top commanders would have the
authority to make a rapid nuclear response if a Soviet attack on
Washington killed national command authorities, such as the
President. The instructions remained in place in "basically the
same" form through the 1960s, although information on the later
period and the current situation is still classified.
Historians and political scientists have known for some years that
Eisenhower made decisions to predelegate nuclear weapons authority
and that after he left office predelegation arrangements of some
sort continued. Until now, however, virtually no documentation
about them or how his successors treated the instructions has been
available. A public interest documentation center that is a project
of The Fund for Peace, the National Security Archive filed
declassification requests with the National Archives and the
Eisenhower and the Johnson presidential libraries and obtained
these documents, many heavily sanitized, on Eisenhower's
predelegation decisions, including May 1957 guidelines, and what we
can assume to be drafts of the JCS instructions to commanders in
late 1959. Other documents disclose the status of Eisenhower's
instructions during the 1960s.
Kilde: The National Security Archive.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/19980319.htm
03/20/1998
Regeringen vil skære i forsvaret
Den nye danske regering vil både lave skatte- og
arbejdsmarkedsreformer, skære i forsvaret og give
efterlønsgarenti. De radikale kan glæde sig over, at
regeringen nu forpligtiger sig til at skære i
forsvarsudgifterne. Der er tale om en krigserklæring til de
borgerlige. Helen Beim (S) siger i et interview til Jens Reiermann
og Rasmus Helveg Petersen, at regeringen kopler
nedskæringerne af forsvarsbudgettet med en fastholdelse af
pengene til u-landshjælp og den såkaldte miljø-
og katastrofehjælp. "Vi kommer til at udmønte
målsætningerne fra FNs Brundtland-rapport om at se
forsvarsudgifterne, miljøbistand anden bistand og
handelspolitik i en sammenhæng. Det glæder mg meget",
siger Helen Beim til Information. Den kommende SR-regering vil
arbejde for at sikre denne såkaldte Brundtland-cirkel i
både forsvars- udenrigs- og sikkerhedspoitikken. Samtidigt
lægger regeringen op til en omlægning af kriterierne
for tildeling af den danske Øst-støtte, der i dag
næsten udelukkende har et miljø-perspektiv, skriver
Information.
03/20/1998
15 mia. kr. om året er prisen for Tjekkiets medlemskab fa
NATO, viser nye beregninger. Og regningen udstedes til den
tjekkiske befolkning gennem sociale nedskæringer, og faldende
realløn. Dette års militærbudget er steget med
22 procent, skriver Dagbladet Arbejderen.
03/20/1998
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