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Tyler Wigg-Stevenson of the Two Futures Project talks with George Shultz, President Reagan’s former secretary of state, about his status at the forefront of the latest campaign to end t
“The second Senate debate on the test ban treaty pits an old way of thinking about nuclear war against today’s totally different threat,” writes Jessica Mathews of the Carnegie Endowm
Iran's expanding nuclear program poses one of the Obama administration's most vexing foreign policy challenges. Fortunately, the conditions for containing Tehran's efforts may be better today than they have been in years.
"Amid the historic first rounds of talks between the Islamic Republic and the United States," writes the Ploughshares-funded National Iranian American Council in its bl
Negotiators meeting in Vienna say that talks were off to a "good start," despite reports from Iran that it was unwilling to move its enriched uranium to another country. The talks between Tehran and the U.S., Russia and France are intended to focus on a technical issue with huge s
Iran's supply of low-enriched uranium -- the potential feedstock for nuclear bombs -- appears to have certain "impurities" that "could cause centrifuges to fail" if the Iranians try to boost it to weapons grade. Iran may have had no alternative but to seek foreign help i
The Boston Globe publishes Ray Takeyh's analysis of the benefits of the diplomatic engagement style of the Obama administration compared to the resolute approach of the Bush administration.
Iran experts and regional analysts say that Iran finally may be ready to make a deal during the second round of direct negotiations with Tehran this month.
After a series of Islamic militant attacks on Pakistan’s army headquarters, analysts debate nuclear weapons security. Hans Kristensen of the Nuclear Information Project of the Federation of American Scientists estimates th
Japan has a surprisingly large influence on U.S. nuclear policy. But it is not the influence that most Japanese citizens think it is--or want it to be.