Many believe that substantive disarmament measures on the part of the West would have no bearing on any aspirations Iran may have to nuclear weapons.
Would Dramatic Disarmament Impress Iran or Not?
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Nonproliferation
How to Convince a State That Thinks It Wants Nuclear Weapons That It Really Doesn’t
Plenty of options exist for diverting states from acquiring nuclear weapons. But an understanding of why states feel the need for them is required first.
What’s Next for the Nuclear Disarmament Movement?
The last 19 months have been a tumultuous time for the nuclear disarmament movement, placing it, today, on the cusp of some important decisions about its future direction.
Addressing the Nuclear Proliferation Challenge: Cooperation is Not Capitulation
Headline news about the threat of nuclear terrorism and the concerns about the nuclear capabilities and ambitions of Iran and North Korea regimes has led some Washington policy makers and pundits to conclude that the nuclear nonproliferation system has failed. A new strategy, they say, must be developed to replace it, or, perhaps, we must even accept that the spread of nuclear weapons is inevitable.
Getting Real(istic) About Nonproliferation
Daryl Kimball contends that I and my former boss, Ted Galen Carpenter (vice president of defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute), are "like the Bush policy team" because we advanced "the proposition that aggressive and erratic regimes with nuclear weapons are a threat to their neighbors, while nuclear arsenals in the hands of stable, democratic, U.S. allies are not."
Taking the Wind Out of the Perfect Geopolitical Storm: Iran and the Crisis over Non-proliferation
Feeding the Nuclear Fire
The July 18 joint statement by U.S. President George Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has attracted a great deal of comment. The focus has been on the possible consequences of U.S. promises to support IndiaÂs nuclear energy program in exchange for India clearly separating its military and civilian nuclear facilities and programs and opening the latter to international inspection.