Abstract In the past decade, governments have increasingly relied on financial sanctions to counter the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. By targeting not only…
Country or Region: Iran
Abstract The policies toward countries aspiring to acquire nuclear weapons continue to be heavily contested, differing even among countries that consider nuclear proliferation as one…
Abstract This article explores the potential impact of U.S. disarmament leadership on the nuclear diplomacy of North Korea and Iran, the “defiant states.” The first…
Abstract The most important short-term success of President Barack Obama’s nuclear weapons policy has been to halt the erosion of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation…
Abstract In the spring of 1975, Iran became one of the first states to begin comprehensive research into using lasers for uranium isotope separation. As…
Summary The shadow war between Israel and Iran has been raging for more than three decades, ever since the Iranian revolution of 1979 ushered in…
Abstract Could an Iranian regime that had developed a nuclear weapons capacity be “deterred?” What would such deterrence look like? What would both Iran and…
Abstract This article clarifies and evaluates the intellectual underpinnings of the respective military red lines that Western leaders have drawn against Iran’s developing nuclear program:…
Continue reading Hymans, Jacques E.C., and Matthew S. Gratias
Abstract This article uses a geographic approach to examine one aspect of the nuclear black market: the coordinators who bring buyers and sellers together, and…
Abstract The Obama administration has made a great effort to increase the role of advanced conventional weaponry in US national security thinking and practice, in…
Abstract This report explores Iranian popular opinion on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the determinants of Iranian attitudes. Using data…
Continue reading Fair, C. Christine, Karl Kaltenthaler, and William Miller
Abstract The article presents and analyzes the US extended deterrence commitments in the Middle East as well as those provided by regional states, and assesses…
Abstract This article applies the concept of nuclear ambivalence to the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Nuclear ambivalence differs from other approaches to…
Summary For the past three decades, the United States and Iran have been engaged in an unacknowledged secret war. This conflict has frustrated five American…
Summary In the years since 9/11, the U.S. war on terror has focused on al-Qaeda, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Coverage of Iran has been devoted almost…
