Opposition from Congress could thwart any potential deal.
Ronald E. Powaski
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Can We Trust Tehran?: The prospects of preventing a nuclear-armed Iran
Ronald E. Powaski updates readers on the prospects of preventing a nuclear-armed Iran.
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The Fallout: What Bush did, and what Obama can do, to face an arms buildup on the subcontinent
What can the U.S. do to address an arms buildup on the subcontinent?
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The New Nuclear Threat: Twenty years after the end of the cold war, the arms race intensifies.
Twenty years after the cold war, the arms race intensifies.
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North Korea’s Nuclear Challenge
In the wake of North Korea’s first nuclear weapon test on Oct. 9, 2006, the long-stalled six-party talks resumed in Beijing in December, but quickly ended without tangible progress. The multinational talksin which Russia, China, South Korea and Japan joined North Korea and the United Statessta
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Many Sticks, Few Carrots
Are North Korea and the United States moving toward the brink of war, perhaps one that would involve the use of nuclear weapons? Some experts think so. Former Defense Secretary William Perry, for one, has warned that the United States and North Korea are drifting toward war. Yet President Bush acts
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Bush’s Nuclear Folly
The Bush administration’s response to North Korea’s nuclear weapon challenge has been hypocritical. While the North Korean decision to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty last January was lamentable, it is also understandable. The Bush administration itself has done much to
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President Bush’s Middle East Mess
According to analysts and diplomats concerned with the Middle East, anti-American hostility—at all levels of society, but especially among the educated—is at an unparalleled high across the Arab world. The main cause of Arab anger, apparently, is the Bush administration’s obvious e