Ted Stevens: “I'm told that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) participation now is increasing.”

In 2003, Alaska's own Senator Ted Stevens singled out Alaska Tribes for exceptionally harsh financial restrictions.

Thanks to the foresight of Senator Ted Stevens and his congressional colleagues in establishing the North Pacific Research Board in 1997.

[t]he waste in that area was as great as the total catch of all the major fisheries off our shores. These 60 factory trawlers threw overboard--dead and unused--about one out of every four fish they caught.

A country that picks up or identifies a launch might legitimately worry whether the weapon carries a nuclear or conventional payload.