Make no mistake, President Obama declared in a statement to Global Zero Summit participants, achieving a world without nuclear weapons will be hard. “Yet always remember this,” he said, “when people of passion and goodwill refuse to accept the world as it is, when we see the world as it might yet become, then great change is inevitable.” Read more »
Today, David Albright and Paul Brannan of the Ploughshares-funded Institute for Science and International Security released a report on the nuclear intentions of Burma’s secretive military dictatorship. Burma is cooperating with North Korea on possible nuclear procurements and appears to be misleading overseas suppliers in order to obtain top-of-the-line equipment. Read more »
Greg Thielmann, senior fellow at the Ploughshares-funded Arms Control Association, outlines his strategy for using the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) to respond to the Iranian nuclear threat. “A global test ban is particularly damaging to Iran's nuclear weapons option because of the way Tehran has presented its nuclear program to the Iranian people and the world. Read more »
If we let the neoconservatives have their way, then 2011 will become a new version of our nightmarish 2003, writes Joel Rubin, Deputy Director of the Ploughshares-funded National Security Network, in a Huffington Post editorial. Fears of domestic terrorism are everywhere, and neoconservatives are already starting to call for military action against Iran. Read more »
With Iran's crackdown on protesters intensifying, the Obama administration and allied governments are rethinking their approach to planned sanctions in hopes of focusing the punishments more tightly on the Iranian leadership, U.S. officials say. Read more »
As South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-Hwan calls for six-party talks to resume before February, Leon V. Sigal, director of the Ploughshares-funded Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project, evaluates North Korea’s “stop and start” nuclear program and offers new strategies for moving forward. Read more »
"We are at a new fork in the difficult path of negotiations on Korea," writes Peter Hayes, Director of Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development. "But there are also more hopeful changes in the international climate and the leadership of the United States and Japan that open the way for a more comprehensive solution to the security issues and fears that have led to North Korea nuclear proliferation." Hayes says that the time has come to consider new ap Read more »
In the wake of news that Iran tested a long-range missile yesterday, as reported by PRI’s The World, questions have intensified about internal political turmoil in Tehran. Read more »
Intelligence agencies around the world are trying to determine whether a puzzling document purported to come from Iran is authentic. If it isn't a forgery, some experts believe it could be proof Iran is working on developing a nuclear weapon. The report was first disclosed by The Times of London earlier this week, and the Institute for Science and Internation Read more »
Trita Parsi, President of the National Iranian American Council, was interviewed on C-Span's Washington Journal about sanctions in Iran, and how they might negatively impact the recent and on-going anti-government protests in Iran. Read more »
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