nuclear proliferation

Barely an hour after word came from Vienna that an Iranian negotiating team has accepted a draft version of a deal to ship nuclear fuel out of the country for enrichment, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a speech this morning at Washington’s tony Mayflower hotel on nuclear nonproliferation, a core Obama administration priority. [...]

Greg Sargent at The Plum Line catches Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton appearing to stretch the available evidence from the U.S. intelligence community on the Iranian nuclear program. “There’s nothing more important,” she recently said in Prague, “than trying to convince Iran to cease its efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon.” Sure, but the [...]

It appears that Iran succeeded in launching a satellite into space as part of an effort to expand its ballistic-missile capability into the thousands-of-miles-away range. Noah Shachtman at Danger Room points out that the Iranians have a history of misrepresenting their military technology, but nevertheless, it’s a worry. I haven’t seen conservatives freak out and [...]

“A strong commitment to the [Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty],” she pledges, including “the end of nuclear weapons, as long as we can be assured we have adequate deterrence.” That includes reducing the America’s own nuclear arsenal, so consider my earlier notation that she wouldn’t pledge to do so inoperative.
“If the United States once again leads [...]

Outgoing Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman says that counter-proliferation is “becoming a bipartisan consensus,” with a special urgency on countries like Iran, and that vigorous negotiations are necessary to stop emerging nuclear capabilities. He reiterates that Iran is on the rise in the Middle East — how’d that happen? — and rejects the [...]