Nuclear Non-Proliferation

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December 30, 2010 / By Michael Krepon
Senate Irreconcilables and New START
Retired Admiral "Fox" Fallon, ex-head of the Central and Pacific Commands, called the ratification of New-START "a no-brainer" in an interview with Mary Beth Sheridan in the Washington Post.   General Brent Scowcroft, President George H.W. Bush's national security adviser, told…Read More »

December 30, 2010 / By Carrielyn O’Connell
Covert Operations in Iran
Iran’s nuclear program has led the international community to fear that Iran is seeking, and may acquire in a few years, a nuclear weapon capability. The US and its allies have sought to engage Iran diplomatically on the issue, but…Read More »

November 16, 2010 / By Barry Blechman, Daniel Brumberg, Steven Heydemann
Engagement, Coercion, and Iran’s Nuclear Challenge
US Iran policy has been long on the tactics and techniques of sanctions, and short on a clear, coherent, strategic vision of the kind of US-Iranian relationship Washington ultimately wants. Without defining that vision - and the most effective balance of…Read More »

November 03, 2010 / By Johan Bergenas
THE EUROPEAN UNION’S EVOLVING ENGAGEMENT WITH IRAN
In 2003, the "E3"-Germany, France, and the United Kingdom-engaged Iran in talks over Tehran's nuclear program and were joined in negotiations the next year by the European Union (EU). Given the dim prospects of success for these talks, why did…Read More »

October 22, 2010 / By Michael Krepon
Scare Tactics
Money is the mother’s milk of politics; motivation is the mother’s milk of the politics of treaty ratification.  Arms control battles in the United States tend to be uneven fights—and not just because skeptics need only 34 votes to quash…Read More »

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