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Rice Hails PSI WMD Interdiction Efforts
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday praised the Proliferation Security Initiative, saying the international effort had conducted 11 successful interdictions of weapons-related technology in the last nine months, Reuters reported (see GSN, March 22). Among those 11 efforts, the State Department cited interdiction of missile- and nuclear-related equipment bound for Iran, as well as chemical- and nuclear-related material bound for North Korea. Rice described the program’s successes in a speech marking the second anniversary of the initiative. Some nonproliferation experts said Washington was exaggerating the program’s effectiveness. “What has it (PSI) actually done? It’s not that it isn’t a good idea. It’s just that it’s being advertised for much more than it is or is capable of doing,” said Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association. “This is a good little program that has been puffed up totally out of proportion,” said Joseph Cirincione, nonproliferation director at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “The United States threw itself a birthday party but when you unwrap the package you find that there was not much there,” Cirincione said (Reuters/New York Times, May 31).
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