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US International Relations

492 events in this timeline

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Showing 101–150 of 492

  1. 1998-05-30 May 30, 1998: Pakistan Conducts Last of Six Nuclear Bomb Tests, Plutonium Possibly Used
  2. 1998-06-09 June 9, 1998: US Congress Kills Chemical Weapons Convention
  3. 1998-07-17 July 17, 1998: International Criminal Court Established
  4. 1998-08-31 August 31, 1998: Test Flight of North Korean Missile Alarms US
  5. 1998-09-23 September 23, 1998: Pakistan Agrees to Cease Nuclear Testing if India Will Reciprocate
  6. 1999-07-22 July 22, 1999 and After: Clinton Signs Missile Defense Act, Refuses to Deploy System
  7. 1999-08-09 August 9, 1999: Televangelist Pat Robertson Says US Should Assassinate Foreign Leaders
  8. 1999-10-13 October 13, 1999: Senate Refuses to Ratify UN Test Ban Treaty
  9. 1999-12-08 December 8, 1999: Murdoch Settles Libel Lawsuit
  10. 2000-01-24 January 24-29, 2000: US Oppose Inclusion of GMOs in Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
  11. 2000-08-03 August 3, 2000: Bush Announces Intention to Withdraw US from ABM Treaty
  12. 2000-10-03 October 3, 2000: Bush Accuses Gore of Advocating Nation-Building in Presidential Debate
  13. 2000-10-05 October 5, 2000: Cheney Lies about Halliburton Experience during Vice-Presidential Debate
  14. 2000-10-11 October 11, 2000: Bush Again Accuses Gore of Advocating Nation-Building, Hides Own Advocacy
  15. 2000-12-16 December 16, 2000: Bush Names Powell Secretary of State; Cheney Plans to Undermine Powell
  16. 2000-12-16 December 16, 2000: Powell Upstages Bush in Acceptance Speech
  17. 2001-01-10 January 10, 2001 and After: Commission Finds Threat of Russian ‘Loose Nukes’ Most Threatening to US Security; Bush Administration Cuts Nuke Security Programs
  18. 2001-01-20 After January 20, 2001: Europeans Expect New Bush Administration to be Similar to Previous Bush Administration, according to German Foreign Minister
  19. 2001-03-07 After March 7, 2001: Bush Administration Uninterested in ‘Multilateral Coordination’ with European Allies, according to Foreign Ministers
  20. 2001-03-07 March 7, 2001: Powell Publicly Retracts Claim of Further Negotiations with North Korea
  21. 2001-03-07 March 7, 2001: Bush Snubs South Korean President, Refuses to Continue Nuclear Dialogue with North Korea
  22. 2001-03-12 March 12, 2001: Neoconservative Journalist: US Must Develop Missile Defense System for Offensive Reasons
  23. 2001-03-27 March 27, 2001: Bush Administration Announces It Will Not Implement Kyoto Protocol
  24. 2001-04-25 April 25, 2001: Bush Mistakenly Redefines Twenty-Year US Policy Towards China and Taiwan, Then Backtracks
  25. 2001-05-01 May 1, 2001: Bush Says US, Allies Must Pursue New Nuclear Policies to Face Threat of Rogue Nations, Groups
  26. 2001-05-02 May 2, 2001: Democrats Slam Bush’s ‘New Strategic Framework’
  27. 2001-07-09 July 9, 2001: US Opposes Restrictions on International Small Arms Sales
  28. 2001-07-16 July 16, 2001: Bush Gets ‘Sense of’ Putin’s ‘Soul’ in First US-Russian Summit
  29. 2001-07-21 July 21, 2001: Rice Says US Should Withdraw from ABM Treaty
  30. 2001-07-23 July 23-25, 2001: US Opposes Changes in Biological Weapons Convention; Fearful of International Interference in Own Bioweapons Program
  31. 2001-08-29 August 29, 2001: Constitutional Law Expert: Bush Has No Authority to Unilaterally Withdraw US from International Treaties
  32. 2001-09-02 September 2, 2001: Time Magazine: Powell Increasingly Marginalized in Bush Administration
  33. 2001-09-04 September 4, 2001: US Secretly Developing Biological Weapons
  34. 2001-09-13 September 13-22, 2001: Russia Fails to Stop US Expansion into Central Asia, Strikes Deal
  35. 2001-09-13 September 13, 2001: Conservative Columnist Calls for ‘Carpet-Bombing’ Muslim Countries, Slaughtering Leaders, and Forcibly Converting Survivors to Christianity
  36. 2001-10-29 October 29, 2001: Neoconservatives Say War with Afghanistan Must Spread Throughout Middle East; Even US Allies Like Egypt and Saudi Arabia Not Safe from US Aggression
  37. 2001-11-09 November 9, 2001: Conservatives Urge Bush to Withdraw from ABM Treaty
  38. 2001-11-15 November 15, 2001: OLC Lawyers Assert Bush Can Unilaterally Amend ABM Treaty with Russia
  39. 2001-11-19 November 19, 2001-December 7, 2001: Bush Representatives Thwart Bioweapons Restrictions
  40. 2001-11-26 November 26, 2001: Defense Official Asks for ‘Team B’-Like Assessment of Terrorist Intelligence
  41. 2001-12-13 December 13, 2001: Non-Proliferation Expert: Treaty Withdrawal Threatens Nuclear Reductions
  42. 2001-12-13 December 13, 2001: US Withdraws from Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia
  43. 2001-12-13 December 13-14, 2001: Democratic Lawmakers Criticize Decision to Withdraw from ABM Treaty
  44. 2001-12-18 December 18, 2001: US Official Meets with Venezuelan Coup Plotter
  45. 2001-12-28 December 28, 2001: San Francisco Examiner Suggests US May Be Planning Coup in Venezuela
  46. 2001-12-31 December 31, 2001: Nuclear Posture Review Leads to New, Aggressive Nuclear Strike Options
  47. 2002-01-03 January 3, 2002 and After: Israelis Claim Cargo of Seized Weapons Sent to Palestinians by Iran
  48. 2002-01-29 January 29, 2002: Bush Labels Iraq, Iran, and North Korea an ‘Axis of Evil,’ Ending Cooperation with Iran
  49. 2002-01-29 January 29, 2002: Bush’s Inclusion of Iran as ‘Axis of Evil’ Member Disrupts Backchannel Negotiations
  50. 2002-02-20 February 20, 2002: US to Create Global Public Relations Office