CONTENTS Preface Patrick Clawson Introduction Henry Sokolski Checking Iran's Nuclear Ambitions: Report Recommendations NPEC Project on Iran Iran's "Legal" Paths to the Bomb Victor Gilinsky Iran's Internal Struggles GeneiveAbdo The Prospects for Regime Change in Iran S. Rob Sobhani Winning Iranian Hearts and Minds Abbas William Samii U.S.-Iranian Strategic Cooperation since 1979 Geoffrey Kemp The Challenges of U.S. Preventive Military Action Michael Eisenstadt About the Authors
CONTENTS Preface Patrick Clawson Introduction Henry Sokolski Checking Iran's Nuclear Ambitions: Report Recommendations NPEC Project on Iran Iran's "Le...
The President of the United States and nearly all his critics agree that the spread of nuclear weapons and the possibility of their seizure and potential use is the greatest danger facing the United States and the world. Looking at the way government and industry officials downplay the risks of civilian nuclear technology and materials being diverted to make bombs, though, a person would get almost the opposite impression. In fact, most governments have made the promotion of nuclear powers growth and global development a top priority. Throughout, they have insisted that the dangers of nuclear...
The President of the United States and nearly all his critics agree that the spread of nuclear weapons and the possibility of their seizure and potent...
Long discounted by arms control critics, traditional nonproliferation efforts now are undergoing urgent review and reconsideration even by their supporters. Why? In large part, because the current crop of nonproliferation understandings are ill-suited to check the spread of emerging long-range missile, biological, and nuclear technologies. Attempts to develop a legally binding inspections protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention, for example, were recently rejected by U.S. officials as being inadequate to catch serious violators while being prone to set off false alarms against perfectly...
Long discounted by arms control critics, traditional nonproliferation efforts now are undergoing urgent review and reconsideration even by their suppo...
Little more than a year ago, the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) completed its initial analysis of Iran's nuclear program, Checking Iran's Nuclear Ambitions. Since then, Tehran's nuclear activities and public diplomacy have only affirmed what this analysis first suggested: Iran is not about to give up its effort to make nuclear fuel and, thereby, come within days of acquiring a nuclear bomb. Iran's continued pursuit of uranium enrichment and plutonium recycling puts a premium on asking what a more confident nuclear-ready Iran might confront us with and what we might do now to...
Little more than a year ago, the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) completed its initial analysis of Iran's nuclear program, Checking Ir...
Henry Sokolski Patrick Clawson Strategic Studies Institute
In his introduction to the September 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States, President George W. Bush wrote, "The gravest danger our Nation faces lies at the crossroads of radicalism and technology. Our enemies have openly declared that they are seeking weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and evidence indicates that they are doing so with determination. . . . Terrorists are organized to penetrate open societies and to turn the power of modern technologies against us." Iran is the poster-child for the nexus of terrorism and WMD. It is the world's foremost state-sponsor of...
In his introduction to the September 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States, President George W. Bush wrote, "The gravest danger our Nat...
The following volume consists of research that the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) commissioned and vetted throughout 2006. For at least half of the chapters, authors presented versions of their work as testimony before Congressional oversight committees. Among them are some of the sharpest critics and staunchest boosters of U.S.-Indian nuclear and strategic cooperation. No matter what one's point of view, though, these chapters deserve close attention since all are focused on what is needed to assure U.S.-Indian strategic cooperation succeeds. The volume offers U.S. and...
The following volume consists of research that the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) commissioned and vetted throughout 2006. For at lea...