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Bill Clinton: “I declared a national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign…”

On the recordNovember 9, 1999
I declared a national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States posed by the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

Editor's note · Context

Notice—Continuation of Emergency Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction

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