Nuclear Non Proliferation

Don't Like Nuclear Proliferation? Ban the Bomb.

Rajan Menon | Posted 04.14.2012

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Rajan Menon

The campaign to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear arms brings to mind a doctor who focuses on the symptoms while overlooking the disease. If Tehran is indeed building the bomb, it quest is a particular manifestation of a larger problem: nuclear proliferation.

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Who Is Afraid of Talking about Iran's Human Rights Crisis?

Hadi Ghaemi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hadi Ghaemi

The Iranian government is vulnerable to international criticism regarding human rights and can be pushed to reduce repression on its citizens, but its game of creating conflict, division and confusion has largely succeeded.

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Nuclear Deal With Iran All for Show

Emma Belcher | Posted 05.25.2011

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Emma Belcher

If the Obama administration's goal is to build support for harsher sanctions by making Iran appear recalcitrant, proposing a stillborn deal disguised as engagement is a shrewd approach.

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Mideast In Focus At Nuclear Nonproliferation Conference

AP | CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

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UNITED NATIONS — The Middle East, that timeless tinderbox at the core of so much in world affairs, looms as a battleground in the U.N.'s meeting...

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Crazy COIN Strategy: US-Pakistani Nuclear Deal

Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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Obama Nuclear Summit: World Leaders Meet In Washington To Stop Spread Of Nuclear Weapons

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama optimistically opened a 47-nation nuclear summit Monday, boosted by Ukraine's announcement that it will give...

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Obama Dismisses Palin's Criticism Of Nuclear Policy: She's 'Not Much Of An Expert'

Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama dismissed criticism by Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin Thursday over his administration's proposal to limit the use of nuclear weap...

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Why Evangelicals Should Join the Fight Against Nuclear Proliferation

Tri Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tri Robinson

The Cold War has ended and times have changed -- the possession of nuclear weapons ultimately is detrimental to our country's security, not a deterrent to threats.

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Nuclear Non-Proliferation Talks Symbolize Hope

Kiyotaka Akasaka | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kiyotaka Akasaka

Recent steps toward nuclear non-proliferation are encouraging, but will the momentum hold?

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For Iran--Think Long Term, Not Immediate Self-Gratificaton

Salam Al Marayati | Posted 05.25.2011

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Salam Al Marayati

Implementing sanctions against Iran would play right into the hands of the theocracy. By imposing sanctions, the US will hand the Iranian government a card it does not have at this time--blaming the increase of prices on foreign powers.

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Obama's Nobel Prize Is Really a Tribute to American Voters

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Creamer

This award celebrates the fact that American voters chose a President committed to progressive values, instead of pre-emptive war and the Neo-Con theories of unilateral action.

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Words Matter

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Wallis

I heard commentators say Obama's comments while chairing the Security Council were "just words." Fair enough, but we haven't heard any words like these from a U.S. president for a long time.

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Sarkozy the Realist; Obama the Dreamer

Michael D. Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael D. Brown

I would very much like to have a world without nuclear weapons. I do not, however, believe that it is practical or even possible to have such a world.

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Queen Noor: "We Are Reaching A Nuclear Tipping Point"

Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hanna Ingber Win

As President Obama prepares to push the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution on nuclear non-proliferation on Thursday, Queen Noor of Jordan and a...

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I'm Scared, Ma

James Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

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James Moore

A new nuclear fear grows in the hubris of our adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan and is compounded even further by some of our allies. Non-proliferation is not sufficient; complete disarmament is required.

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Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years

Daniel Ellsberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Daniel Ellsberg

I was one of many in the late '50s misled and recruited into the nuclear arms race by exaggerated and deliberately manipulated, fears of Soviet intentions and crash efforts.

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123 Agreement for Nuclear Energy in the UAE: An Unprecedented and Responsible Step

Thomas Graham | Posted 05.25.2011

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Thomas Graham

This agreement is significant because it codifies unprecedented steps the UAE is taking to prevent proliferation. It also enables the US to send an important message to the region.

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Bibi Goes to Washington: How About a Nuclear Free Middle East?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joseph A. Palermo

It might be the case that Netanyahu has far more friends in Washington than does the president.

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