Showing posts with label Nuclear Policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nuclear Policy. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Containment of Iran?
This article looks at the scenario for containing a nuclear Iran. That is, if we go ahead and assume that Iran will get the bomb, what will our containment policy look like. Will "what worked with the soviets work with the mullahs?" is the question. The US worked to stop China from developing nuclear weapons in the 1960s but then slowly began to formulate a policy of containment after it became clear it would. So if China and Russia changed over decades, can Iran? The article lays out the argument for a containment policy. I have my doubts. We don't seem to have a clear policy towards Iran and are unsure, as the article points out, where our point of "tolerance" is - or, where that line in the sand is.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Russia-U.S. Nuclear Limitation Talks Progressing
Article.
The United States and Russia have been meeting to try and create a successor treaty to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which expired in December. Following Obama's general goal of nuclear reduction and an eventual nuclear-weapon-free world, the two parties are trying to agree on further reduction quotas, and both have said that talks are progressing wonderfully.
The United States and Russia have been meeting to try and create a successor treaty to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which expired in December. Following Obama's general goal of nuclear reduction and an eventual nuclear-weapon-free world, the two parties are trying to agree on further reduction quotas, and both have said that talks are progressing wonderfully.
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