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There Are No Perfect Nuclear Deals
Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar, Politico
August 30, 2015
During the Cold War both Republican and Democratic presidents accepted less-than-perfect arms pacts with the Soviets. We need to do the same with Iran.
Holding out for the impossible is a recipe for no progress at all. Congress should take the same approach today to the Iran nuclear deal.
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The Iran Nuclear Agreement: Lots of Heat but Not Much Light
The Economist
August 29, 2015
The intensity of the argument in Washington, DC, over the nuclear pact between Iran, America and five other powers is in some ways impressive. Such an important agreement merits close scrutiny. Sadly, much of the talk has been wildly misleading.
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Keep Your Word: What the United States Must Do
to Keep the Iranian Deal Healthy
Robert Gard, Foreign Affairs
August 24, 2015
The nuclear accord with Iran must be followed by the construction of a fundamentally new Iranian relationship with the United States, the region, and the world. The United States must follow through on the commitments it makes during the negotiating process.
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What Do Past Nonproliferation Failures Say
About the Iran Nuclear Agreement?
Leonard Weiss, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
September 1, 2015
An attempt to view the Iran agreement through the lens of past nonproliferation failures proceeds from some fundamental misunderstandings or distortions of the history of those failures. Rather than repeating the conditions for failure, the Iran agreement reflects some lessons learned from them.
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No, Obama Shouldn't Try to Get a Better Deal with Iran
Albert Wolf, Australian Strategic Policy Institute
August 19, 2015
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A Step Toward a Safer Atom
Nursultan Nazarbayev, Foreign Policy
September 3, 2015
The President of the Republicof Khazakhstan on why his country has agreed to host the fuel bank.
"My country is host to an important new initiative that could change how the world talks about nuclear enrichment forever."
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Why Kazakhstan is Building a Uranium Bank
The Economist
September 2, 2015
It sounds like something a Bond villain might dream up, rather than a philanthropic American billionaire. However, low-enriched uranium (LEU) is available on the open market for nuclear power, but if supply unexpectedly dries up, the bank in Kazakhstan can act as a lender of last resort.
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Can the IAEA's New Nuclear Fuel Bank Prevent a Future Iran Crisis?
Foreign Policy
September 2, 2015
One of the purposes of the IAEA nuclear fuel bank, hosted by Kazakhstan and operational in 2017, is to discourage governments from building facilities that could be used to purify uranium to weapons-grade levels - an issue that has been at the heart of the deadlock between Iran and world powers for more than a decade.
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China is Taking Charge of a Key Element in Iran's Nuclear Deal
Li Jing, South China Morning Post
August 29, 2015
Iranian Vice-President Ali Akbar Salehi, who is also head of the country's Atomic Energy Organisation, on Friday said China would play "a leading role" in redesigning the Arak heavy-water reactor to significantly reduce its plutonium output.
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New Report: Indian Nuclear Forces, 2015
Hans M.Kristensen and Robert S.Norris, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
September 2, 2015
With several long-range ballistic missiles in development, the Indian nuclear posture is entering an important new phase. After nearly two decades of focusing on nuclear competition with Pakistan, New Delhi seems to now be paying attention to its future strategic relationship with China.
The authors estimate that India has produced between 110 and 120 nuclear warheads.
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George Orsborne Making 'Wrong Moral Choice' on Nuclear Weapons
Severin Carrell and Frances Perraudin, The Guardian
August 31, 2015
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New Report: The New Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation Agreement Between South Korea and the United States: From Dependence to Parity
Fred McGoldrick, Korea Economic Institute of America
September, 2015
As Mr. McGoldrick points out, the new agreement establishes an unprecedented level of cooperation between two governments in the field of civil nuclear energy.
Replacing the existing 1974 U.S.-Korean bilateral agreement on nuclear cooperation took years of negotiation to balance the interests and requirements of the two countries involved.
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Meltdown-Proof Nuclear Reactors Get a Safety Check in Europe
Richard Martin, MIT Technology Review
September 4, 2015
Researchers say they could build a prototype of a molten salt reactor, a safer, cleaner nuclear power option, in 10 years.
Essentially, molten salt reactors could solve the two problems that have bedeviled the nuclear power industry: safety and waste.
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We Need to Take the Dirty Bomb Threat Seriously
Andrew Bienawksi and Sam Nunn, Nuclear Threat Initiative
August 21, 2015
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Nuclear Tear-Down: Edison Plays Matchmaker to Find the Right Skills for $4.4 Billion Disantling of San Onofre Plant
Terry Sforza, Orange County Register
August 30, 2015
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