Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire: Nonproliferation Update 5/18/2012

Friday, May 18, 2012

Nonproliferation Update 5/18/2012

Why the U.S. Must Ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
PolicyMic
To strengthen the nuclear nonproliferation regime, the United States should ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), which aims to eliminate nuclear test explosions for civilian and military purposes,opened ...

PolicyMic

Iran sanctions: Now or never
Washington Post (blog)
... nuclear concessions before the negotiators, such as the cessation of 20- percent uranium enrichment, while maintaining Iran's right to continue enrichment at lower levels [which is not a right guaranteed by the Non-Proliferation Treaty].

Iran and IAEA: Slip and Slide
Heritage.org (blog)
Iran is resorting to its usual negotiating tactics on the nuclear issue: Slip away from its commitments under the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and slide by international efforts to halt its nuclear weapons program. Yesterday, Iranian negotiators ...

The Challenge for NATO in Chicago
New York Times
NATO's unique responsibility to act is obvious: Three of the five nuclear weapon states recognized by the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and eight of the 14 states that have nuclear weapons on their territory are NATO members.

Iran and nuclear weapons
The Economist
Fearing that it could suffer Iraq's fate, Iran signed the Additional Protocol of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which gives IAEA inspectors souped-up rights of access. Two years later, when things were going badly wrong for America in Iraq and ...

The Economist

Consider This: And the centrifuges just keep on turning
Jerusalem Post
Once an assistant director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency for Non-proliferation Policy, he was responsible for all issues related to the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons as well as the missiles to deliver them.