[…] The Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) has increased the fees it charges for registration required pursuant to the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). This is the first increase in registration fees since 2004. The AECA requires registration with DDTC for persons and entities involved in the manufacture, export and brokering activities related to defense articles or defense services.

[…] The legislation, which the Senate passed October 1 by a vote of 86 to 13, now goes to President Bush.
The House of Representatives passed the bill 298 to 117 on September 28.
“The legislation will strengthen our global nuclear nonproliferation efforts, protect the environment, create jobs and assist India in meeting its growing energy needs in a responsible manner,” Bush said after Senate passage of the bill. “I look forward to signing this bill into law and continuing to strengthen the U.S.-India strategic partnership.”

[…] “Obviously, we’re very concerned about some of the reversal of disablement activities that the North has been engaged in, and he obviously wants to consult with his counterparts in the region out there to see what our next steps are going to be with regard to a response to what the North is doing,” deputy State Department spokesman Robert Wood said September 29. Hill, who is the chief U.S. negotiator to the Six-Party Talks, will arrive in Seoul, South Korea, September 30 to meet with South Korea’s chief nuclear envoy, Kim Sook.

[…] Khalilzad said September 27 that a resolution adopted unanimously by the U.N. Security Council calls for Iran to comply with three previous resolutions and cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The brief resolution reaffirmed Security Council resolutions that impose progressively stronger political and economic sanctions on Iran for failing to stop its uranium enrichment program.

[…] President Bush has withdrawn a U.S.-Russian civil nuclear cooperation agreement that was under consideration by Congress. The decision to withdraw the legislation, once billed as the cornerstone of a new era of nuclear cooperation between the United States and Russia, was made “in view of recent actions by the Government of the Russian Federation incompatible with peaceful relations with its sovereign and democratic neighbor Georgia,” according to a September 8 White House statement.

[…] U.S. and Japanese news agencies had reported that North Korea appeared to be reassembling its Yongbyon facility. On August 26, North Korean officials threatened to restore the plutonium processing facility if the United States did not remove the country from the State Sponsors of Terrorism List. McCormack, the assistant secretary of state for public affairs, said the United States.

The Declaration affirms the commitment of the United States to the security of Poland and of any U.S. facilities located on the territory of Poland. The Declaration underscores that both nations face a growing threat from the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and associated delivery systems.

[…] The cornerstone of the U.S.-Poland security relationship is the solidarity embodied in Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which provides that an armed attack against one NATO country shall be considered an armed attack against them all.

[…] The media often trumpet the dispatch of arms control experts to a country of concern. But what these experts do often remains largely invisible. Verification experts were sent into Iraq, for example, to search for dangers. In June 2008, U.S. and Iraqi experts sent to Canada the last bit of concentrated natural uranium accumulated during Saddam Hussein’s reign at the country’s main nuclear complex in Tuwaitha.

[…] Rice spoke for the first time July 21 about a meeting held two days earlier in Geneva between Iranian representatives and representatives from the United States, Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia. William Burns, under secretary of state for political affairs, represented the United States at that meeting, Rice said, and it should indicate just how seriously the United States is taking this situation.