The US has agreed to help India with its nuclear energy and space technology in return for India's promise to use the assistance for peaceful purposes and to help block the spread of dangerous weapons.
The Bush administration has abandoned an international effort to strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention against germ warfare, advising its allies that the United States wants to delay further discussions until 2006.
The Bush administration believes Cuba is developing biological weapons and collaborating with pariah states that have their own germ warfare programs, according to State Department arms control chief John R. Bolton. He called on Cuba to stop delivering equipment and expertise that could be used for biological warfare by "rogue states."
Despite his boasts to the contrary, no credible evidence exists that Osama bin Laden possesses nuclear weapons, according to Bush administration officials who also said yesterday that the Saudi exile's terror network has not shown the ability to turn biological or chemical components into effective weapons.