Nuclear Nonproliferation

During the Cold War, policy makers and scholars worried that nuclear weapons would proliferate widely—yet, after all this time, there remain relatively few nuclear powers. Today, the nonproliferation regime faces challenges from unrecognized nuclear states like North Korea and other rogue regimes like Iran. The international community must continue to limit the spread of nuclear weapons, while the United States works to assure nuclear-proliferation compliant allies of the integrity of the US nuclear umbrella.

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New Atlanticist

Apr 26, 2012

Can Western Women Tame Iran’s Nuclear Negotiators?

By Laura Rozen and Barbara Slavin

Photos of the high-stakes Iran nuclear talks held in Istanbul earlier this month tell their own story.

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New Atlanticist

Apr 25, 2012

Nuclear Iran Not Inevitable, Says Israel’s Defense Chief

By James Joyner

Lieutenant General Benny Gantz, the head of Israel’s military, says that Iran’s leaders have not yet decided to develop nuclear weapons and that they may well never take that step.

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New Atlanticist

Apr 23, 2012

Nuclear Weapon Reductions Must be Part of Strategic Analysis

By Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft

A New START treaty reestablishing the process of nuclear arms control has recently taken effect. Combined with reductions in the U.S. defense budget, this will bring the number of nuclear weapons in the United States to the lowest overall level since the 1950s. The Obama administration is said to be considering negotiations for a new […]

Nuclear Nonproliferation Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Apr 16, 2012

Iran Hones Asymmetric Diplomacy with Washington

By Barbara Slavin

Outnumbered six to one, Iran deftly maneuvered this weekend (April 13-14) to restart negotiations that could yield formal recognition of its uranium enrichment program, and postponement of more crushing economic sanctions or a military attack. The results of the meeting in Istanbul between Iran and the so-called P5+1—which both sides called “positive”—was a clear example of how […]

Iran Nuclear Nonproliferation

New Atlanticist

Apr 10, 2012

Disarmament by Timetable

By Andrew Wilson

Britain’s nuclear weapons—and its international relationships—are under challenge.

Nuclear Nonproliferation Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Mar 30, 2012

Will Iran’s Quest for Nuclear Weapons Bring a Second Holocaust?

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

“SHOWDOWN” is splashed in large red letters across the cover of Newsmax, the April issue of the conservative monthly. Followed by, in smaller letters, “Iran’s Plan for a Second Holocaust Must Be Stopped.” And, in parentheses, in still smaller type, between the twin grim-looks of Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Israel’s Binyamin Netanyahu, the cover story […]

Iran Nuclear Nonproliferation

New Atlanticist

Mar 15, 2012

Fukushima, Europe’s Nuclear Test

By Ana Palacio

Seen from Europe, the irrationality of the political and media discourse over nuclear energy has, if anything, increased and intensified in the year since the meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Yet a dispassionate assessment of nuclear energy’s place in the world remains as necessary as it is challenging. Europeans should not pontificate on […]

Energy & Environment Europe & Eurasia

New Atlanticist

Mar 9, 2012

Is it Time for a Nuclear Mutual Assistance Pact?

By Julian Lindley-French

Is it time for a Nuclear Mutual Assistance Pact? Yesterday’s ‘P5+1’ statement urging Iran to enter into “serious dialogue” on its nuclear program “without preconditions” suggests the danger of nuclear proliferation is now so real that something new is needed to prevent it. The statement is also an important precedent. The very fact that the […]

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New Atlanticist

Mar 2, 2012

Why Wars Start and Why Wars Are Lost

By Harlan Ullman

As the White House defuses efforts to restart a 21st-century variant of the ancient Persian wars through a pre-emptive, presumptive Israeli military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities, history offers several stark warnings and lessons about starting and losing wars to be ignored at our risk. After the 10-month-long Franco-Prussian war of 1870 in which the […]

Nuclear Nonproliferation Security & Defense

Issue Brief

Jan 27, 2012

The Path Towards Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy: Convergence of US-Kazakh Interests

By Douglas Townsend

In the Patriciu Eurasia Center issue brief “The Path Towards Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy: Convergence of US-Kazakh Interests,” Douglas Townsend, a UK-based business consultant and former Australian diplomat with extensive experience in the Eurasia region, explores opportunities for bilateral cooperation between the US and Kazakhstan on issues of nuclear non-proliferation. Download the PDF

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