Emma Belcher
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Emma Belcher is a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Make the Punishment Fit the Nuclear Crime

Posted June 17, 2011 | 16:41:39 (EST)

This month, the United States and partner countries tracked, harassed, and successfully deterred a North Korean ship from delivering suspected illicit missile technology to Myanmar. This coordinated effort demonstrates the international community's resolve to squeeze North Korea on its nuclear program, and prevent proliferation of weapons of mass...

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Nuclear Deal With Iran All for Show

Posted November 9, 2010 | 14:41:43 (EST)

The Obama administration is preparing the ground for tougher sanctions on Iran by pushing to revive last year's ill-fated fuel swap deal. The renewed proposal to swap Iran's low enriched uranium for research reactor fuel is not a serious attempt at engagement, as the Unites States knows it...

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The Ties That Bind Are Not Always Best

Posted April 27, 2010 | 13:26:15 (EST)

The critics who were quick to condemn this month's Nuclear Security Summit communiqué because it is not a legally-binding agreement don't realize that time is not on our side. Nuclear terrorists will not wait while negotiators from 47 countries hammer out a legally-binding treaty to prevent them from...

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Throwing Out the Bathwater, but Keeping the Baby

Posted November 20, 2008 | 16:35:37 (EST)

Resisting the temptation to renounce all things Bush, President-elect Barack Obama has astutely thrown himself behind the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), a Bush administration effort to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). However, he should be wary in what manner he proposes to institutionalize it, lest it...

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