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CSIS Event in Washington, DC
The Iran Deal: Key Issues and Controversies
August 13, 2015, 2:00-3:00pm
You are invited to join CSIS as they have Dr. Colin Kahl and other members of the administration discuss key elements of the Iran nuclear deal and its specific implications for the international community.
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Official White House Commentary on The Iran Deal
The White House, Medium
August 4, 2015
The Iran deal: It's called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and it's important that everyone understands exactly what's in this deal and how it'll work. That is why the White House has provided all 159 pages of the JCPOA with commentary from the very people who negotiated it and will help implement it.
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Parsing the Iran Deal
George Perkovich, Mark Hibbs, James M. Acton, and Toby Dalton
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
August, 2015
"Our aim here is to analyze the deal as impartially and objectively as possible solely from a nonproliferation perspective. It is not to offer a final conclusion about whether the deal is a good or bad one, but instead to help readers make up their own minds."
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Hiroshima and the Iran Agreement
Rachel Bronson, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
August 5, 2015
Seventy years ago this week, the United States dropped the first of two nuclear weapons over Japan, the only times nuclear weapons have been deployed in war.The anniversary provides an opportunity to reflect on lessons learned (or not learned) from nuclear war and seven decades of trying to prevent its recurrence, and to apply that knowledge to the current situation in the Middle East.
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Seven Decades After Hiroshima, Is There Still a Nuclear Taboo?
William Burr and Jeffrey Kimball, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
August 4, 2015
During the Cold War, Washington and Moscow made nuclear threats that could have led to catastrophe. Decision-makers stopped short of nuclear use because of constraints against first use. These constraints are known collectively as the "nuclear taboo," an informal but widely-observed prohibition made up of moral, political, bureaucratic, military, practical, and diplomatic hurdles and inhibitions.
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9th ISODARCO Winter Course:
Nuclear Governance in a Changing World
Anadalo (Trento), Italy
January 7-14, 2016
The aim of this Winter Course is to analyse some of the key issues which concern the continuing reliance on, and the risk of, further spread of nuclear weapons in the current international system, and thereby advance awareness and understanding on these critical and topical problems. There is still time to apply.
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United States Ratifies Key Nuclear Security Amendment
Rodolfo Quevenco, IAEA
July 31, 2015
The United States today formally ratified the Amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM), a move welcomed by IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano as "an important step to bolster nuclear security around the world."
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Why the U.S. Still Needs Its Nuclear Weapons
Peter Huessy, The Daily Caller
August 10, 2015
If the nations of the world are drifting toward conflict, it would seem to be of the utmost importance that the United States make sure at the very least that any conflict remains at the lowest level possible and not expand to the use of nuclear weapons.
In this respect, modernizing the U.S. nuclear deterrent would appear to be a high priority.
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