The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Avoiding Worst-Case Outcomes

ISBN-13: 9781138436756 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Mark Fitzpatrick

Opis

A paper that explains how Iran has developed its nuclear programme to the point where it threatens to achieve a weapons capability within a short time frame, and analyses Western policy responses aimed at forestalling that capability.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Framing the Problem: Iran,s Pursuit of Fissile Material  2. Western Strategy So Far  3. Can Iran's Capability Be Kept Non-Weaponised?  Conclusion

O autorze

Mark Fitzpatrick is Senior Fellow for Non-Proliferation at The International Institute for Strategic Studies and Director of its Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme. He is the editor and principal author of IISS strategic dossiers on Nuclear Programmes in the Middle East: In the shadow of Iran (London: IISS, 2008) and Nuclear Black Markets: Pakistan, A.Q. Khan and the rise of proliferation networks: A net assessment (London: IISS, 2007). He has published articles on the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programmes and other proliferation topics in Survival, the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune and other publications, and he is a frequent news commentator and international lecturer on these subjects. He was a US diplomat for 26 years, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Non-Proliferation.