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Nuclear Deterrence

Will Japan Go Nuclear?

Joe Cirincione | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Hu Jintao, Yukio Hatoyama, Barack Obama, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Deterrence, Nuclear Posture Review, Start Treaty, United States, Japan, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Nuclear-Free World, World News
Joe Cirincione

A small group of conservative Japanese defense officials have spread the view that if the United States reduces its nuclear arsenal, then Japan will build its own nuclear bombs.

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Obama, McCain on National Security and Nuclear Proliferation

Eliza Margarita Bates and Cara Zwerling | Posted 10.18.2008 | Home

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Infrastructure, John McCain, Tom Ridge, War on Terror, Food Crisis, National Security, Homeland Security, Brownie, Election 2008, Obama National Security, Duct Tape, Water Crisis, Barack Obama, Defense Department, Terrorist Attack, Barack Obama Nuclear Weapons, 9/11, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Weapons, Us Security, Nuclear Deterrence, North Korea Nuclear Program, Barack Obama Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Proliferation, Home News
Eliza Margarita Bates and Cara Zwerling

Where do Obama and McCain stand on these issues? To start, McCain, the nominee of what used to called the "small government party," wants to create two entirely new government organizations.

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Irrational Leaders and Nuclear Arms: A Response

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Security First, Nuclear Deterrence, Irrational Leaders, Saddam Hussein, Saddam Hussein Weapons of Mass Destruction, Nuclear Weapons, Iran Nuclear Program, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Politics News
Amitai Etzioni

Allowing authoritarian regimes to be subject only to internal challenges in exchange for deproliferation and ending the support for terrorism is less bitter than it seems.

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On Deterring Iran

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: North Korea Deterrence, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Kim Jong Il, Iran Nuclear Program, Nuclear Deterrence, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Politics News
Amitai Etzioni

I believe that many states -- Iran, among others -- have leaders who are capable of acting irrational, hence posing a serious threat both to other countries as well as to their own.

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