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Nuclear Nonproliferation

  • Sanctions Seen Slowing N. Korea Progress
    Arms Control Today
    July 5, 2012

    Although North Korea continues “actively to defy” UN Security Council resolutions, international sanctions “appeared to have slowed” the country’s activities in areas such as development of its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, according to a report to the UN Security Council on the implementation of the sanctions imposed by the resolutions.
  • Sanctions Tighten on Iran
    Arms Control Today
    July 5, 2012

    Additional U.S. sanctions targeting Iran’s banking and oil sectors went into effect June 28, further restricting Iran’s ability to export oil and isolating the country from the international financial system.
  • Sanctions Tighten on Iran
    Arms Control Today
    July 5, 2012

    Additional U.S. sanctions targeting Iran’s banking and oil sectors went into effect June 28, further restricting Iran’s ability to export oil and isolating the country from the international financial system.
  • Iran, P5+1 Move to Technical Talks
    Arms Control Today
    July 5, 2012

    Senior-level talks between Iran and six world powers over Tehran’s nuclear program are on hold, as the lead representatives from the two sides decided in Moscow on June 18-19 to wait to schedule a fourth round of negotiations until after a lower-level technical meeting is held on July 3.
  • Pursue the Diplomatic Track on Iran
    Arms Control Today
    July 2, 2012

    Nearly 10 years have elapsed since the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed that Iran had secretly built a uranium-enrichment facility. Nearly seven years have passed since talks between Iran and the European Union stalled and Iran resumed its enrichment activities. Since then, Iran and the P5+1—China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States—have fumbled fleeting opportunities to reach a deal that reduces the risk of a nuclear-armed Iran in exchange for a rollback of proliferation-related sanctions.
  • Iran Nuclear Brief: Iran Nuclear Negotiations
    Threat Assessment Brief
    June 28, 2012

    On June 19, Iran concluded the third round of talks on its nuclear program in as many months, this time in Moscow, with senior officials of the six powers - the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, and China. Although there were strong incentives for the six to secure limits on Iran's most worrisome stockpiles of enriched uranium and for Iran to avoid an impending tightening of economic sanction, no breakthrough was achieved by the end of the latest round. But neither did diplomatic dialogue come to an end.
  • Books of Note
    Arms Control Today
    May 31, 2012

    Nuclear Deterrence in the 21st Century: Lessons from the Cold War for a New Era of Strategic Piracy

    Thérèse Delpech, RAND, 2012, 181 pp.

     

    Sanctions, Statecraft, and Nuclear Proliferation

    Etel Solingen, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2012, 402 pp.
  • Work Seen Needed on Mideast Meeting
    Arms Control Today
    May 31, 2012

    Although there has been “substantial progress” in organizing a planned conference on creating a Middle Eastern zone free of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), it is “clear that further and intensified efforts are needed,” the conference’s facilitator said last month.
  • Nuclear Deterrence in a Changed World
    Arms Control Today
    May 31, 2012

    Sidney D. Drell is a physics professor emeritus at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has advised the U.S. government for many years on technical aspects of national security issues. James E. Goodby, a former U.S. negotiator on arms control, nonproliferation, and transparency issues, is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy. The recommendations offered in this article represent the authors’ personal views.
  • Updating Nonproliferation Criteria for U.S. Nuclear Trade
    ACA Events
    May 16, 2012

    Prepared Comments by Daryl G. Kimball for Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and the Foreign Policy Initiative Forum on “Tightening Nuclear Nonproliferation Rules: What Congress’ Role Should Be”
    May 16, 2012