The trumpeted U.S.-Iran showdown at the United Nations was over moments after it began. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad strutted and fretted his almost-hour on the stage of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference on May 3. Then U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered her smack down. If it were a boxing match, the refs would have ended it.
Ploughshares Fund grantee Avner Cohen writes in Haaretz that "if Israel takes military action against Iran, it will be one of the biggest decisions in the history of the state
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said in a new report that low-yield tactical nuclear warheads would be one way for the Israelis to destroy Iranian uranium enrichment plants in remote, dug-in fortifications. But other independe