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Tensions Over Intermediate Nuclear Force Treaty HIgh- Russian Foreign Ministry
Strategic Culture Foundation
March 3, 2015
The intermediate nuclear force (INF) Soviet-US treaty of 1987 that outlawed the intermediate and shorter range missiles is not falling apart yet, but tensions over it are soaring high, the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's non-proliferation and arms control department, Mikhail Ulyanov, told a news conference on Wednesday.
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Nuclear Security: A Turkish Perspective
Edited by Sinan Ulgen, EDAM
For more than six decades, Turkish officials have advocated for the development of nuclear energy to help decrease the country's reliance on imported fossil fuels. In 2010, Turkey concluded an agreement with Russia's Rosatom for the construction of four VVER-1200 reactors at the Akkuyu site, near the coastal city of Mersin. Just three years later, in May 2013, Turkey signed an agreement with a Mitsubishi led consortium to build a second nuclear power plant neat the city of Sinop.
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Saudi Arabia Prepares for Iranian Nuclear Deal
March 9, 2015
Saudi Arabia is quietly preparing for an international nuclear agreement with Iran that it fears will rehabilitate its Shiite Persian rival. King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud's approach eschews the public spectacle of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress (indeed, the Saudis don't want any association with Israel) and instead focuses on regional alliances to contain an emergent Iran.
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Down to the Wire with Iran
George Perkovich, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
March 4, 2015
The deadline for finalizing the outline of a nuclear deal with Iran is fast approaching. As negotiators work to close the remaining gaps, critics of the agreement are voicing their complaints, including a high-profile speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the U.S. Congress on March 3, 2015.
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Murky Waters: Naval Nuclear Dynamics in the Indian Ocean
Iskander Rehman, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
More than five years have passed since India launched its first ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) in July 2009. Meanwhile, Pakistan formally inaugurated a Naval Strategic Force Command headquarters in 2012 and has declared its intent to develop its own sea-based deterrent. As India and Pakistan develop their naval nuclear forces, they will enter increasingly murky waters. By further institutionalizing relations between their navies and by insisting on stronger transparency with regard to naval nuclear developments, both countries may succeed in adding a greater degree of stability to what otherwise promises to be a dangerously volatile maritime environment.
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Daryl G. Kimball, Arms Control Association
March 2015
Since the 2014 ouster of the pro-Russian president of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin's persistent effort to annex and destabilize parts of Ukraine has undermined European security and the rules-based international order. The Ukraine crisis has sent already chilly relations between Moscow and the West to the lowest point in more than a quarter century.
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Treaties vs. Executive Agreements:
When Does Congress Get a Vote
Damian Paletta, Washington Wire
March 10, 2015
The decision by 47 Republican senators to send a letter explaining to Iranian leaders some of the basics of how the U.S. conducts international diplomacy touched off a political brawl, but also pulled back the curtain on the complex constitutional power the U.S. government has exercised since the 1780s.
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GOP Senators to Tehran:
We're Waiting in the Wings to Kill a Nuclear Deal
Elias Groll, Foreign Policy
March 9, 2015
Republican lawmakers have been railing against the Obama administration's nuclear talks with Iran for months, but the rhetoric has abruptly degenerated into something far darker: an unprecedented congressional move to reach out to Tehran directly and try to scuttle the negotiations just weeks before a key deadline
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Triangular Nuclear Competitions
Michael Krepon, Arms Control Wonk
March 9, 2015
A serious competition between two nuclear-armed rivals is very hard to stabilize. When one rival increases its nuclear capability, the other does, too. Then both rivals feel less secure - even when they possess secure retaliatory capabilities. It's even harder to stabilize a triangular nuclear competition. Isosceles triangles don't exist in the nuclear business, and three unequal sides do not make for stable geometry.
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The Danger of Negotiating with Iran
Michael Rubin, American Enterprise Institute
As a candidate for president, Barack Obama made diplomacy with rogue regimes a signature issue. "The notion that somehow not talking to countries is punishment to them...is ridiculous," he declared in 2007. In both his inaugural address and his first television interview as president, he reached out to the Islamic Republic of Iran. "If countries like Iran are willing to unclench their fist, they will find an extended hand from us," he told Al-Arabiya. In the six years since, whether firebrand Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or reformer-by-comparison Hassan Rouhani held the Iranian presidency, Obama has been so committed to a deal on Iran's illicit nuclear program that he hasn't let anything stand in his way-Congress, allies, or even facts.
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