Weapons Inspections Commentary

Reaching Iran through South Africa

Why the most successful route to reaching a nuclear deal with Tehran may be through Pretoria.

Engaging Russia on Iran

To prevent a nuclear Tehran, Obama will have to work with Putin.

Beware a Bad Deal with Tehran

Parsing out what both sides will try to get from the P5+1 negotiations with Iran. 

A Non-Nuclear Middle East

Sanctions won't work. A military attack won't work. But there is one way to keep Iran—and the region—WMD free.

Storms Brew in Pyongyang

North Korea is about to violate its recent missile-test agreement and several UN resolutions. Washington is running out of options.

Syria's WMD Threat

Assad has chemical weapons. Whether he will use them—and what will happen to them if he falls—remains unknown.

Squandered Opportunities in Seoul

An uninspiring nuclear-security summit saw only modest victories for a wary, distracted Obama administration.

A Radioactive Situation

An Israeli attack on Iran would draw America into a war that is neither affordable nor in its interests.

Iran's Going Nuclear

Revolutions in the Middle East?  No bother for Tehran.  The future couldn't look brighter for the hardliners. 

Web of Destruction

Iran and North Korea are part of the same problem. Why Obama's carefully refined foreign-policy analysis could come back to haunt us.

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May 26, 2012