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		<title>Missile Watch: Global Update (April &#8211; October 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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Missile Watch
A publication of the FAS Arms Sales Monitoring Project
Vol. 2, Issue 2
October 2009
Written by Matt Schroeder and Scoville Fellow Matt Buongiorno

&#160;
Table of Contents:
Honduras/Mexico: Alleged arms trafficker offered to sell &#8220;17 or 18 surface-to-air missiles,&#8221; claims US informant
Kenya: MANPADS threat affects US air travel to Nairobi
Russia: 20 MANPADS seized from militants in North Caucasus region
Sri [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Documents obtained by FAS shed some light on Viktor Bout case, but key questions remain</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Matt Schroeder
Documents provided to the Federation of American Scientists by the US Attorney&#8217;s Office for the Southern District of New York provide additional details about the case against alleged arms trafficker Viktor Bout, but many important questions remain (publicly) unanswered. Below is a brief summary of these documents and their significance.
Background
Viktor Bout and an alleged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Picture &#8211; what is really at stake with the START follow-on Treaty</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia Godsberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Alicia Godsberg
There is cause for cautious optimism after Presidents Obama and Medvedev signed their START follow-on Joint Understanding in Moscow last Monday – the goal of completing a legally binding bilateral nuclear disarmament agreement with verification measures is preferable to letting START expire without an agreement or without one that keeps some sort of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online debate on Russia at The Economist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia Godsberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a House Committee on Foreign Affairs meeting 9 September 08 members of Congress discussed what the U.S. response should be to Russia&#8217;s aggressive actions in Georgia last month.  Most members of the Committee acknowledged that some sort of response was necessary to voice U.S. concerns about the possibility of a more aggressive Russian foreign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War in Georgia and Repercussions for Nuclear Disarmament Cooperation with Russia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia Godsberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier blog post, arguments were discussed from a 12 June 08 meeting of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs for and against the signing of a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement (123 Agreement) with Russia. At the time, the most salient issues were our ability to influence Russia’s position vis-à-vis Iran’s nuclear ambitions and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US – Russia 123 Agreement on the Hill</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia Godsberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, June 12 the House Foreign Relations Committee met for over three hours and heard testimony from members of the Committee, a representative of the Bush administration, and expert witnesses regarding the pros and cons of supporting the Agreement Between the United States and Russia for Cooperation in the Field of Peaceful Uses of [...]]]></description>
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