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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 20. Mars 1998 / Time Line March 20, 1998

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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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