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Say what? “AP: Diagram suggests Iran working on nuclear bomb”

From On November 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Those unnamed officials “from a country critical of Iran’s nuclear program” are at it again. This week they leaked an illustration to to the Associated Press which supposedly demonstrates that “Iranian scientists have run computer simulations for a nuclear weapon that would produce more than triple the explosive [...]

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Implications of the November 2012 IAEA Report on Iran

From On November 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Write Kelsey Davenport, Daryl G. Kimball, and Greg Thielmann at Arms Control Now:

Taken together, the IAEA report findings provide further troubling evidence that Iran is continuing to pursue sensitive nuclear fuel-cycle activities in violation of UN Security Council resolutions and is slowly enhancing its nuclear weapons breakout potential.

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Should Turkey be included in the P5+1?

From On September 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The Arms Control Association’s Kelsey Davenport summarizes a case made by a Turkish professor of international relations for Turkey to be included in the p5+1 (the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany):

Despite the failure of the Tehran Declaration, Turkey’s experience negotiating with Iran [...]

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Lieutenant Colonel Leif Eckholm on Invading Iran: Lessons from Iraq

From On September 1, 2011 · 4 Comments

Peter Crail has a post up on the Arms Control Association’s blog, Arms Control NOW, summarizing a recent analysis by Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Leif Eckholm which compares the invasion of Iraq with possible Iran invasion scenarios. As Crail notes, the comments made by Eckholm and other U.S. generals (not to [...]

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