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Nuclear weapons and Israel

If Israel Attacks

As things stand, if Iran continues on its path toward obtaining the bomb, Israel will strike, and the consequences would be disastrous for the entire world. Here's how America can convince Israel to live with a nuclear Iran.

The Osirak Fallacy

If a strike on Osirak failed to turn back the clock on Saddam's nuclear program, why would one work for Iran?

Rethinking N+1

Albert Wohlstetter's 1961 "N+1" article reminds us that potential proliferators are not few but many, as most states have been empowered by economic and technical developments to build quickly high-leverage weaponry with impressive strategic reach

Response to Heather Wilson's 'Missed Opportunities'

Heather Wilson's article will, no doubt, win her few friends among her former colleagues in the Bush administration or among their successors.

Warheads and Soviet Chaos

The attempted overthrow of Mikhail Gorbachev by a coalition of Soviet hardliners in August has heightened unease in the West about the control of Soviet nuclear weapons.

Commentary

Loose Nukes

An arms race more unstable than the U.S.-USSR standoff during the cold war is fast becoming the reality in the Israel-Iran atomic confrontation.

Operation Iranian Freedom?

Is Israel preparing for an all-out air assault on Iran’s nuclear facilities? For its own sake—and America’s—let’s hope not.

NIE Madness

2005: Tehran is building a nuclear weapon. 2007: Maybe not. History shows that it’s probably best to take the latest National Intelligence Estimate with a grain of salt.

Blogs

Staving Off Israeli Folly

The danger of Israel striking Iran isn't rooted in strategy and logic.

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May 26, 2012