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  • Negotiators Mull Future of Iran Talks
    Arms Control Today
    October 2, 2012

    Top negotiators representing Iran and six world powers met Sept. 18 in Istanbul for what both sides described as a “constructive” discussion on the future of high-level negotiations over Iran’s disputed nuclear program.
  • Financial Interdictions to Curb Proliferation
    Arms Control Today
    July 5, 2012

    Over the past four decades, the world has gotten several glimpses of the illicit procurement methods used to support nuclear programs: Iraq’s diversion in the 1980s of agricultural loan funds into its nuclear procurement program, the payment schemes of the Abdul Qadeer Khan network as part of its sale of uranium hexafluoride to Libya,1 and the fraudulent transactions through New York banks of shell companies linked to IRISL, Iran’s state-owned shipping company.
  • The Iranian Nuclear Dispute: Origins and Current Options
    Arms Control Today
    July 5, 2012

    Hossein Mousavian is a research scholar at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. From 1997 to 2005, he was the head of the Foreign Relations Committee of Iran’s National Security Council; from 2003 to 2005, he served as spokesman for Iran in its nuclear negotiations with the European Union. He is author of The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: A Memoir (2012).
  • The Rocky Road of Nuclear Diplomacy With Iran
    Arms Control Today
    July 5, 2012

    Olli Heinonen has been a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government since 2010. Prior to that, he served for 27 years at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, including five years as deputy director general and head of the Department of Safeguards.

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  • IAEA, Iran Close to Deal, Amano Says
    Arms Control Today
    May 31, 2012

    A deal allowing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to pursue its investigation into the possible military dimensions of Iran’s nuclear program could be signed “quite soon,” IAEA Director-General Yukiya Amano said May 22.
  • P5+1 and Iran Claim Progress in Talks
    Arms Control Today
    May 31, 2012

    Following two days of discussions last month in Baghdad, Iran agreed to meet again in June with six world powers to “expand” on the “common ground” that the two sides identified during negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program, Catherine Ashton, who represented the six countries, said May 24.
  • WMD Controls Improving, UN Panel Says
    Arms Control Today
    December 2, 2011

    Countries have made steady progress in adopting national controls to stop the spread of nonconventional weapons, according to a UN panel report released last month.
  • Russia Ratifies African NWFZ
    Arms Control Today
    April 4, 2011

    The Russian Duma on March 14 approved a protocol that commits Russia not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons anywhere in Africa.
  • The Impact of Sanctions on Iran's Nuclear Program
    ACA Events
    March 9, 2011

    Transcript Available. After four rounds of UN sanctions and on-going discussion of introducing additional measures by the United States and its allies, the effectiveness of sanctions in constraining Iran's nuclear program has come under increased international scrutiny. With an Iranian regime accustomed to withstanding deprivations in the past and increasing political turmoil in the Middle East, measuring the impact of sanctions on the Iranian decision-making process remains a difficult challenge.
  • N. Korea Judged to Have More Enrichment Sites
    Arms Control Today
    March 3, 2011

    North Korea probably has multiple uranium enrichment-related facilities, U.S. intelligence officials said, following North Korea’s decision to reveal one such facility last year.