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How Sanctions Against Iran Could Backfire

Nathan Gonzalez | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Netanyahu, Gas Prices, Sanctions, Npt, Khamenei, Missiles, Uranium Enrichment, War, Proliferation, Obama, Weapons, Shahab Missile, Iran, Shah, Non-Proliferation Treaty, Natanz, Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Weapons, Embargo, Economy of Iran, Oil, Uranium, Israel, Iran Nuclear Program, Foreign Affairs, Obama Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran Sanctions, World News
Nathan Gonzalez

It is no secret that Iran is developing its nuclear capacity in a clandestine and deceptive manner. Yet ironically it is our reaction to Iranian intransigence that is more likely to lead to an Iranian bomb. And it's not for the reasons that many have cited.

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The Ayatollah Is Right About One Thing: Nuclear Weapons Are Sinful

Robert Scheer | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Robert Scheer, Npt, Pakistan, North Korea, War, Proliferation, Obama, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Nuclear, Election, Government, Military, Nuclear Weapons, Gop, Israel, Iraq, Politics News
Robert Scheer

How to explain the Ayatollah's recent seemingly logical and humane religious proclamations on the immorality of nuclear weapons? His statement challenges the acceptance of nuclear war-fighting as an option by every U.S. president since Harry Truman.

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Egypt's Nuclear Dimension

Joe Cirincione | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Nonproliferation, Chemical Weapons, Wmd, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Power, Israel, Iran, Nonproliferation Treaty, Iran Nuclear Program, Robert Einhorn, Barack Obama, Biological Weapons, Npt, World News
Joe Cirincione

As a free Egypt transforms itself, analysts are nervously watching for signs of new nuclear ambitions. Why has Egypt never come clean about the full scope of its nuclear activities and experimentation?

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Safeguarding Nuclear Security in the Shadow of Middle East Revolutions

Jonathan Pearl | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, Jordan, Npt, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, Obama Administration, Iran, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Barack Obama, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Nonproliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Middle East, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Barack Obama Nuclear Proliferation, Iaea, Nuclear Proliferation, Obama Nuclear Weapons, Iran Nuclear Program, World News
Jonathan Pearl

Nuclear nonproliferation goals must be placed above short-term financial and political preferences. The uncertainties of revolution and the dangers of proliferation demand nothing less.

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Is "It's Not Fair" a Childish Response to Being Denied Nuclear Weapons?

Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Npt, Nuclear Countries, Wmd, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Warheads, Nuclear, Nuclear Terrorism, Weapons, Nukes, Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Deterrence, Nuclear Warfare, Nuclear War, Nonproliferation, Nuclear Deterrence, National Security, Nuclear Warhead, Nuclear Testing, Nuclear Bomb, New Start, World News
Russ Wellen

No matter the short term benefits to security, when the West severs the ties that bind disarmament to nonproliferation, it further undermines the trust of the developing world and long-term prospects for international security.

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New START Is About More Than Russia

Craig Martin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, International Law, Nobel Peace Prize, Nuclear Proliferation, Start, Npt, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obma, Reagan, Ussr, Russa, Politics News
Craig Martin

New START is about much more than relations with Russia. It is about reestablishing U.S. leadership in the global effort to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons in the world.

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Supporters of Military Attack Against Iran -- Ahmadinejad's Unwitting Allies?

Omid Memarian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tel Aviv, Npt, Iran, Washington, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, US Foreign Policy, Revolutionary Guard, IAEA Iran, Barack Obama, Israel Air-Strikes, Politics News
Omid Memarian

In the present circumstances, the end of the military option against Iran would create space for those in Iran seeking to hold the hardliners in check, and offer an opening to Iranian democracy and the Iranian people.

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Michael Douglas and Yoko Ono Support Mayor Akiba and Nuclear Disarmament at John Catsimatidis' Fifth Avenue Home

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Margo Catsimatidis, John Cory, United Kingdom, World Peace, Disarmament, United Nations, 2020, Hiroshima, Arizona, Mad Cow Disease, Haya Bint Al Hussein, Pope John Paul, Elie Wiesel, 2010, Henry R. Luce Hall, Stevie Wonder, Mayors for Peace, American Dream, MAY 4TH, Tadatoshi Akiba, Militarism, John Catsimatidis, Chernobyl, Michael Fitzgerald, Npt, Yo-Yo Ma, Ernest Hemingway, The New Yorker, U.N. Messenger of Peace, Jonathan Schell, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Yoko Ono Lennon, The Fate of the Earth, George Clooney, Hibakusha, New York City, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, Steven L. Leeper, May Day, Atomic Bomb, John Lennon, Arms Race, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Weapons, Jacqueline Cabasso, Michael Douglas, New York News
Jim Luce

Mayors for Peace, headed by the Mayor of Hiroshima, Tadatoshi Akiba, got a boost this week during the five-yearly review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferat...

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Arab Countries Hedge Bets on American Nuclear Resolve

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Iran, Npt, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President Obama, Tehran, United Nations, Israel, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Politics News
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

President Obama must demonstrate to the Arab world that Washington is still "the strong horse" with the will to thwart all-too-real nuclear threats from the tyrants in Tehran.

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Are Obama's Disarmament Initiatives Just a Cover for the Nuclear-Industrial Complex?

Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Los Alamos, Nuclear Countries, Henry Kissinger, Nuclear Taboo, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Start, Nuclear, Nuclear Terrorism, Nuclear Posture Review, Nuclear Warfare, Compliance, Nuclear War, National Security, Ellen Tauscher, Verification, Nuclear Testing, Nuclear Bomb, Npt, Wmd, Lawrence Livermore, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Npr, Nuclear Warheads, Nuclear Proliferation, Iran Nuclear, Weapons, Nukes, Deterrence, Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Nonproliferation, Nuclear Deterrence, Nuclear Warhead, Nuclear Modernization, World News
Russ Wellen

Many of us hoped for more from the Nuclear Posture Review. Still, as with the new START treaty, it may not be transformational, but it is transitional.

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Can Brazil Save the World From War With Iran?

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Turkey, Iran, UN Security Council, Brazil, Npt, Nuclear Power, Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran Nuclear Program, G7, World News
Robert Naiman

The enrichment of uranium by Iran is not a violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and it is generally acknowledged that the NPT gives Iran the right to enrich uranium.

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Nuclear Theology

William Vendley, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Review Conference, William Vendley, Non-Proliferation Conference, Nuclear Weapons, Npt, Mustafa Ceri?, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Conference, Michael Kinnamon, Nuclear Theology, William F. Vendley, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Non-Proliferation Review Conference, Religions for Peace, Religion News
William Vendley, Ph.D.

It is time to balance power with morality. We must begin by committing to the goals of the NPT. By doing so, we will foster the kind of global responsibility that can help us -- God willing -- to address the other self-made crises of our time.

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The Rhetoric and Reality of Nuclear Threats

Sam Black | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, Nonproliferation, Npt, Nuclear Weapons, Pakistan, Iran, United States, NPT Review Conference, World News
Sam Black

The history of U.S. nuclear threat-making can actually help the Obama administration make its case both at home and abroad. The White House should capitalize on this legacy.

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Groundbreaking Speech by Ban Ki-moon on Eve of NPT Review

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Peace Action, Semipalatinsk, Ronald Reagan, Washington, War, United Nations, Secretary General, Upper West Side, Reykjavik, Article VI, Riverside Church, Hiroshima, Nuclear War, Nagasaki, Nelson Mandela, Manhattan, Peace, Vietnam War, Ban Ki-Moon, Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Nuclear-Free World, Npt, Nuclear Weapon Convention, Dmitri A. Medvedev, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, NPT Review Conference, United States, Soviet Union, Barack Obama, Conscience, Martin Luther King, Joseph Gerson, Terrorism, Mikhail Gorbachev, World News
Jim Luce

In a Huffington Post exclusive, Peace Action organizers of the "Nuclear-Free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World" Conference at Riverside Church -- ...

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The NPT Test

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: NPT Review Conference, Nonproliferation, Npt, Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obama, Politics News
Amitai Etzioni

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has a loophole so large that aircraft carriers can sail through it unnoticed. Is the NPT review conference truly succeeding? Ask whether this loophole is closed. My expectation? Don't hold your breath.

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"The Grand Bargain of the NPT"

Tad Daley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Npt, Nonproliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Non-Proliferation Treaty, World News
Tad Daley

In May 2010, both diplomats and nongovernmental leaders are gathering at the UN in New York for the 40 Year Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference -- as mandated by the treaty itself -- to assess how the various parties are complying with the various obligations they undertook four long decades ago.

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Iran Sanctions in a Muddle; Ahmadinejad Comes to UN (update)

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: France, Npt, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, North Korea Nuclear Program, Pakistan, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Russia, Israel, India, Iran Nuclear Program, China, Iaea, Brazil, Britain, Mohammed ElBaradei, Mohamed ElBaradei, World News
Evelyn Leopold

The timetable for adopting sanctions against Iran has been thrown into a muddle, running into a major nuclear non-proliferation conference -- and the probable arrival of Ahmadinejad in New York on Monday.

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The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Past and Present

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Weapons, Npt, Disarmament, United Nations, Non-Proliferation Treaty, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, United States, NPT Review Conference, Cold War, Soviet Union, World News
Lawrence Wittner

Since the non-proliferation treaty took effect in 1970, almost all nuclear nations stopped building nuclear weapons. But even so, they've resisted honoring their full obligations under the NPT.

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U.S.-Indian Nuke Transactions Go From Bad to Worse

Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuclear Suppliers Group, Npt, Nuclear Countries, Wmd, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Nuclear Taboo, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Warheads, Iran Nuclear, Nuclear, Nuclear Terrorism, Weapons, U.S. India Nuclear Deal, Nukes, Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Deterrence, Nuclear Warfare, Nuclear War, Nonproliferation, Nuclear Deterrence, National Security, Nuclear Warhead, India, Nuclear Testing, Nuclear Bomb, Bhopal, World News
Russ Wellen

Between India's elites failing to see expected returns, masses denied energy and sustainable development and U.S. plans thwarted by the Indian legislature, the India-U.S. nuclear deal has been a lose-lose-lose deal.

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Seed of Destruction: Nuclear 'Pits'

Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Npt, Nuclear Countries, Wmd, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Nuclear Taboo, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Start, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Warheads, Iran Nuclear, Nuclear, Nuclear Terrorism, Weapons, Nukes, Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Deterrence, Nuclear Warfare, Nuclear War, Nonproliferation, Nuclear Deterrence, National Security, Nuclear Warhead, Nuclear Testing, Nuclear Bomb, World News
Russ Wellen

The Obama administration is making generous concessions to the nuclear industry presumably, to win votes from Republicans on the new START treaty and other disarmament measures.

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Crazy COIN Strategy: US-Pakistani Nuclear Deal

Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Npt, Anti-War, Crazy, Coin, Pakistan, United States, Nuclear Deal, Nuclear War, Nuclear, Rethink Afghanistan, Arms Race, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Seth G Jones, C Christine Fair, Taliban, Afghanistan, India, Iaea, Rand, Counterinsurgency, World News
Josh Mull

Not for-sure nuclear war, mind you, just betting it all and rolling the dice on nuclear war. This is what COIN has come to, what our trillion dollar occupation has come to.

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Nuclear Follies

John Feffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prompt-Global-Strike, Start Treaty, Npt, Nuclear Posture Review, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Summit, World News
John Feffer

If the Russian army makes the bold decision to invade Germany, we can just nuke those damn communist soldiers into oblivion with the 200 tactical nucl...

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Biden Courts the Non-Aligned on Nukes

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Npt, Wmds, Derek Chollet, Proliferation, Denis McDonough, Antony Blinken, Start, Joe Biden, Arms Control, Gary Samore, Jim Jones, Iran, Nuclear Summit, Susan Rice, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Ellen Tauscher, Malaysia, Israel/Palestine, Tom Donilon, Rexon Ryu, Algeria, North Korea, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Today, Joe Biden may have helped push a new "global social contract" on international security and safety a bit further by hosting personally at his private residence a unique lunch with the non-aligned state leaders.

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What's Next for the Nuclear Disarmament Movement?

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Peace Action, Mass Media, Nuclear Weapons, Npt, Ban Ki-Moon, Nuclear Abolition, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, NPT Review Conference, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, New Start Treaty, Nuclear-Weapons-Free-World, Politics News
Lawrence Wittner

On May 2, a mass nuclear abolition rally and march swept through New York City, from Times Square to Dag Hammarskjold Plaza at the United Nations.

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All Options, Still, On The Table

Tad Daley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Npr, Iran, Npt, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Nonproliferation, North Korea Nuclear Program, World News
Tad Daley

During the press conference at the Pentagon on Tuesday, April 6th announcing Obama's new "Nuclear Posture Review" (NPR), Secretary of Defense Robert Gates caused the US to violate the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT). Live on C-SPAN. Three separate times.

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