Regime acquiring a nuclear weapon. Medical search. Frequent questions

In 2015, the previous administration joined with other nations in a deal regarding Iran's nuclear program. (vox.com)
Not only does the deal fail to halt Iran's nuclear ambitions, but it also fails to address the regime's development of ballistic missiles that could deliver nuclear warheads. (vox.com)
Some of the constraints on Iran's nuclear program will phase out after 10 years. (prnewswire.com)
So we need to build in additional constraints on Iran's nuclear program that will reassure its neighbors in the time frame beyond 10 years, when the constraints on the size of Iran's enrichment program are relaxed. (prnewswire.com)
Israel's deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon recently declared that the (nearly decade-long) diplomatic efforts to stop Iran's nuclear program have failed. (americanthinker.com)
The goal with Iran must be a Libya-style total disarmament, removing equipment and material from Iran's nuclear weapons program, with independent verification by the IAEA. (americanthinker.com)
In exchange for the verifiable dismantling of Iran's entire nuclear program, the U.S. should compensate Iran financially for related losses and provide other economic and political benefits that are collectively far more advantageous to Iran than a nuclear weapon would be. (americanthinker.com)
The bill seeks to toughen sanctions against Iran by banning American firms from using foreign subsidiaries to get around current sanctions on Iran's energy sector, banning free-trade agreements with countries investing in Iran, banning nuclear dealings with entities that trade with Iran's nuclear sector, and making it more difficult for the president to waive the sanctions. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
This concern is illustrated by the statement of Hashemi Rafsanjani, former president of Iran and currently a prominent member of two of Iran's most important decisionmaking bodies, of December 14, 2001, when he said that it `is not irrational to contemplate' the use of nuclear weapons. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
3) The theological nature of the Iranian regime creates a special urgency in addressing Iran's efforts to acquire nuclear weapons. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
Iranians have agreed to meet with Western officials to discuss their nuclear program amid increasing Western concern about Iran's purpose. (kcur.org)
Let's say what people have been suggesting: a surgical strike, as it's sometimes described, against Iran's nuclear facilities. (kcur.org)
Such an attack would be aimed not only at eliminating Iran's nuclear capabilities, Graham said, but at rendering Ahmadinejad's government powerless. (truthout.org)
The United States believes that Iran's ultimate intention is to convert the fuel to weapons-grade plutonium in order to create nuclear arms. (truthout.org)
The next few paragraphs implicitly outline a familiar theme of the opponents: All of Iran's military bases must be open for inspection at all times, lest they hide some component of their nuclear program. (balloon-juice.com)
The United States decides to take out Iran's nuclear program with limited air strikes (much like the Israelis did when they attacked Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in June 1981). (antiwar.com)
But even limited air strikes would involve bombing hundreds of targets (in addition to Iran's suspected nuclear facilities, other targets would likely include chemical and biological facilities, air defense sites, and ballistic missiles), and because many of those targets are located in urban areas (such as a research reactor in Tehran), even with precision weapons there would likely be civilian collateral damage. (antiwar.com)
These trends include North Korea's expanding nuclear weapons program, Iran's continuing nuclear ambitions, Pakistan's increasing instability, growing doubts about the sustainability of the nonproliferation regime in general, and terrorist groups' enduring aspirations to acquire nuclear weapons. (belfercenter.org)
Realizing the gravity of the situation, the United States and the United Nations Security Council sought, over many years, to stop Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons with a wide array of strong economic sanctions. (eurasiareview.com)
The nuclear deal threw Iran's dictatorship a political and economic lifeline, providing urgently needed relief from the intense domestic pressure the sanctions had created. (eurasiareview.com)
While this might be perceived by many to be a good solution to rein in Iran's nuclear program, it can only work as a short-term fix, one that will merely freeze, but not end its nuclear ambitions. (alarabiya.net)
At the time of signing up for the deal, Iran's main objective for entering the agreement, was to dupe the Obama administration into returning billions of dollars, which had been impounded due to its continual pursuance of illicit nuclear activity. (alarabiya.net)
The fact that Iran's extensive chemical weapon stockpile has yet to be disseminated into the hands of non-state actors, along with the fact that these same elite units would in turn handle any Iranian nuclear weapons, lends further evidence to this conclusion. (unexplained-mysteries.com)
19 Jan. Nicholas Burns's retirement as US undersecretary for political affairs Friday, Jan. 18, and his replacement by US ambassador to Moscow William Burns, take the Bush administration's strategy on Iran's nuclear activities a stage closer to Moscow's line of soft diplomacy. (debka.com)
By the next paragraph Neuchterlein is referring to Iran's "nuclear arms program," something the existence of which is supported by zero evidence, something the U.S. Secretary of "Defense" says does not exist. (davidswanson.org)

The Jewish News Syndicate has recently reported that "A group of 1,800 retired Israeli generals, officers and Mossad operatives have written a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden urging him not to return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. (veteranstoday.com)
The Iran deal, they said, is "an existential threat to the Jewish state," and this has the potential to ignite a nuclear war. (veteranstoday.com)
The best estimate at this time place Iran between three and five years away from possessing the prerequisites required for the independent production of nuclear weapons. (veteranstoday.com)
And we're still talking about Iran acquiring nuclear weapons! (veteranstoday.com)
President Trump arrives to deliver a statement on the Iran nuclear deal on May 8, 2018. (vox.com)
My fellow Americans: Today, I want to update the world on our efforts to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. (vox.com)
In theory, the so-called "Iran deal" was supposed to protect the United States and our allies from the lunacy of an Iranian nuclear bomb, a weapon that will only endanger the survival of the Iranian regime. (vox.com)
In fact, the deal allowed Iran to continue enriching uranium and, over time, reach the brink of a nuclear breakout. (vox.com)
The deal lifted crippling economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for very weak limits on the regime's nuclear activity, and no limits at all on its other malign behavior, including its sinister activities in Syria, Yemen, and other places all around the world. (vox.com)
At the heart of the Iran deal was a giant fiction that a murderous regime desired only a peaceful nuclear energy program. (vox.com)
Last week, Israel published intelligence documents long concealed by Iran, conclusively showing the Iranian regime and its history of pursuing nuclear weapons. (vox.com)
The agreement was so poorly negotiated that even if Iran fully complies, the regime can still be on the verge of a nuclear breakout in just a short period of time. (vox.com)
Everyone would want their weapons ready by the time Iran had theirs. (vox.com)
The Treasury Department announced new sanctions on Iran for its ballistic missile program Wednesday, but also said it will continue to waive sanctions as required by the Iran nuclear deal. (nbcnews.com)
A]bove all, the United States will never allow the regime in Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon. (nbcnews.com)
One thing is clear: we must stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
Iran pursues nuclear weapons its leaders vow to use to annihilate Israel. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
And it was an even greater mistake for President Obama to distance himself from Israel and seek engagement with the hostile regimes in Syria and Iran. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
Sanctions relief is timed to Iranian compliance, limited to actions involving the Iran nuclear program, and subject to a snap-back for UN sanctions in the event of unresolved disputes concerning Iranian compliance. (prnewswire.com)
They probably believe, as I do, that, even if Iran does not want a nuclear bomb, it does want the option of going for a bomb if the United States ever decides to try to achieve 'regime change' in Teheran by force. (prnewswire.com)
And other countries in the region may want to position themselves to acquire nuclear weapons quickly if Iran does. (prnewswire.com)
While we would like to think that another Iran won't happen, Saudi hints that they will acquire the same capabilities as Iran suggest otherwise. (prnewswire.com)
But if Iran doubts American resolve, it will continue to develop an independent nuclear capability and could even purchase nuclear weapons from Pakistan, making it impossible for any power to stop Iran from becoming another nuclear proliferator. (americanthinker.com)
and (iv) an even more belligerent Iran that flexes its nuclear arsenal to: export its radical Islamic ideology, acquire disputed territories and resources from neighboring countries, and/or undertake actions like blocking the Strait of Hormuz to increase the price of oil. (americanthinker.com)
Allowing Iran to acquire or develop nuclear weapons could lead to horrific destruction on an unthinkable scale. (americanthinker.com)
Thus, the world must wait for major changes before concluding that Iran can be trusted with the world's most dangerous weapons. (americanthinker.com)
But if Iran rejects this offer, then its regime is clearly on a nuclear warpath that must be stopped by the only world power that can do so swiftly and decisively, and without producing a nuclear war that consumes the entire region and leaves many millions dead. (americanthinker.com)
Iran has frequently called for the destruction of Israel and has -- despite the sanctions against it -- actively worked to acquire the means to annihilate Israel whenever it chooses. (americanthinker.com)
1) The prospect of the Islamic Republic of Iran achieving nuclear arms represents a grave threat to the United States and its allies in the Middle East, Europe, and globally. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
2) The nature of this threat is manifold, ranging from the vastly enhanced political influence extremist Iran would wield in its region, including the ability to intimidate its neighbors, to, at its most nightmarish, the prospect that Iran would attack its neighbors and others with nuclear arms. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
5) The nature of the Iranian threat makes it critical that the United States and its allies do everything possible--diplomatically, politically, and economically--to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear-arms capability and persuade the Iranian regime to halt its quest for nuclear arms. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
He's written an article in the Washington Monthly titled, simply, "We Can Live with a Nuclear Iran. (kcur.org)
INSKEEP: Let me ask about another concern that is raised about Iran having a nuclear weapon. (kcur.org)
Members of Congress considering new Iran sanctions legislation should have open eyes regarding the Trump administration's attitude toward the nuclear deal. (foreignpolicy.com)
Congress played a critical role in penalizing Iran for supporting terrorism, providing support to U.S. partners in the region threatened by Iran, and establishing the sanctions regime that, combined with tough diplomacy, led to a deal that prevents Iran from developing or acquiring nuclear weapons. (foreignpolicy.com)
Robert Malley, the Biden administration's special envoy for Iran, testifies about the Iran nuclear deal on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 25. (foreignpolicy.com)
Alright, here's what's on tap for the day: U.S.-led Iran nuclear deal negotiations extend into overtime, Congress moves to counter Russia and China in the Balkans , and Biden prepares to slap Myanmar with new sanctions. (foreignpolicy.com)
As U.S. President Joe Biden's top Iran envoy, Malley plays the unenviable role of a diplomatic Sisyphus, trying to push a renewed Iran nuclear deal up a steep hill, only to see it all come crashing down again with each new round of talks that ends in impasse. (foreignpolicy.com)
Nevertheless, Malley is heading to Vienna for another round of talks with Iran to revive the 2015 nuclear deal even as officials in Washington and Brussels voice skepticism it will lead anywhere. (foreignpolicy.com)
Most of Malley's original team has already left his shop, and the envoy himself said that American expectations "are in check," with Iran already deploying new centrifuges that some officials believe could bring Tehran within a month of a nuclear breakout. (foreignpolicy.com)
I think the U.S. should exercise every effort to negotiate with Iran to get their regime to turn away from a path to acquiring nuclear weapons and away from their malign activities in the region including their proxy warfare to attack other countries," said Mick Mulroy, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense during the Trump administration. (foreignpolicy.com)
A year ago, Hatch was one of 47 GOP Senators who signed a letter to the regime in Tehran warning Congress would block a nuclear deal despite his Iran-Contra defense of Ronald Reagan in which he proclaimed the President is the "the sole person to whom our Constitution gives the responsibility for conducting foreign relations. (perrspectives.com)
President Biden is currently trying to work with the Iranian regime in such a way that could potentially give Iran a pathway to acquiring a nuclear weapon. (nrb.org)
Iran is an ideological regime that seeks to eliminate Israel from the face of the earth," Pompeo said. (nrb.org)
Washington - Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said Monday that the United States must be prepared to use military force to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon - and added that the last-resort step should be taken with the goal of overthrowing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (truthout.org)
If you allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon, you've emptied Pandora's box. (truthout.org)
Graham said he believes Ahmadinejad "was lying" when he said Sunday in New York, after arriving for the U.N. General Assembly session this week, that Iran isn't building a nuclear bomb. (truthout.org)
In order to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, he said, a U.S. attack would be preferable to an Israeli attack because the American military is more powerful and more likely to achieve regime change. (truthout.org)
The U.S. opposition to Teheran's construction of a nuclear power plant in the southern Iran city of Bushehr dates to the Clinton administration in the 1990s. (truthout.org)
Iran and Russia say the plant, which recently began operating, will produce nuclear-fueled electricity for peaceful use. (truthout.org)
If Iran has no nuclear weapons, it cannot put one on a missile. (balloon-juice.com)
As important as are these nuclear issues, the United States has broader concerns regarding Iran. (antiwar.com)
In other words, it's not just about nuclear weapons so Iran giving up its nuclear aspirations would only be a necessary, but not sufficient, condition. (antiwar.com)
The conventional wisdom, however, is that regime change in Iran is an impossible undertaking. (antiwar.com)
This does not mean that the administration would deliberately attack Iran to invite a terrorist attack as a reason to engage in regime change. (antiwar.com)
This legislation tightens existing sanctions on Iran to adapt to a constantly evolving situation and further increases the price paid by the regime on a macroeconomic level. (iranwatch.org)
The bill states that it is the policy of the United States to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability. (iranwatch.org)
How quickly could Iran get enough fissile material for a small nuclear arsenal? (iranwatch.org)
This timetable estimates how quickly Iran could amass enough weapons-grade uranium for five bombs. (iranwatch.org)
Given that the Assad Regime has been a major supplier of insurgents and armaments into Iraq since the 2003 invasion, and actively does the bidding of Iran in Lebanon, the U.S. has a keen interest in seeing him toppled. (captainsjournal.com)
For this reason, upon taking office, I've ordered a complete strategic review of our policy toward the rogue regime in Iran. (eurasiareview.com)
Today, I am announcing our strategy, along with several major steps we are taking to confront the Iranian regime's hostile actions and to ensure that Iran never, and I mean never, acquires a nuclear weapon. (eurasiareview.com)
Iran is under the control of a fanatical regime that seized power in 1979 and forced a proud people to submit to its extremist rule. (eurasiareview.com)
But the previous administration lifted these sanctions, just before what would have been the total collapse of the Iranian regime, through the deeply controversial 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. (eurasiareview.com)
The regime also received a massive cash settlement of $1.7 billion from the United States, a large portion of which was physically loaded onto an airplane and flown into Iran. (eurasiareview.com)
Tehran would retaliate with its own strike, providing the US with an excuse to attack military targets and nuclear facilities in Iran. (yourbbsucks.com)
Iran continues to acquire and develop the fundamental prerequisites for a nuclear weapon. (yourbbsucks.com)
As far as this project is concerned, on the day that North Korea claimed it had successfully tested an ICBM capable of reaching the US, Iran announced it was bolstering ties with Pyongyang, which leads to speculation that such a move could bring Iran closer to its goal of acquiring a missile that could reach American shores. (alarabiya.net)
Similar reports out of RAND note that Iran has had chemical weapons in its inventory for decades, and other reports from RAND describe the strict control elite military units exercise over these weapons, making it unlikely they would end up in the hands of "terrorists. (unexplained-mysteries.com)
For those who favor regime change or a military attack on Iran (either by the United States or Israel), there is a strong argument to be made for trying this option first. (unexplained-mysteries.com)
Inbar argues that "diplomacy has run its course," "economic sanctions are generally futile" and that further negotiations just gives Iran more time to complete its nuclear program. (lobelog.com)
Inbar is resolute: "The discussions on postnuclear Iran scenarios underestimate the strategic repercussions of an Iranian nuclear arsenal. (lobelog.com)
Iran has tried repeatedly to negotiate the end of its nuclear energy program or the exportation of its uranium for refinement outside of the country. (davidswanson.org)
It is not yet too late to prevent Iran from arming itself with nuclear weapons. (gatestoneinstitute.org)
Whereas Churchill spoke of a future, as yet unknown peril, Netanyahu will focus on the clear and present threat to world peace if Iran is allowed to produce nuclear weapons. (gatestoneinstitute.org)
An agreement that leaves Iran with the potential to achieve nuclear breakout will trigger a Middle East arms race that will exponentially increase the risks of global nuclear war, a risk multiplied by the vulnerability of regional governments to overthrow by extremists. (gatestoneinstitute.org)

After this time, the Iranian Islamic republic will have the ability to construct atomic weapons without the importation of materials or technology from abroad. (veteranstoday.com)
The Iranian regime is the leading state sponsor of terror. (vox.com)
The Iranian regime has funded its long reign of chaos and terror by plundering the wealth of its own people. (vox.com)
Today, the greatest threat to the security of Israel and, by extension, a threat to America, is the Iranian government developing a nuclear arsenal. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
WASHINGTON , April 16, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- While agreeing that the framework agreement imposing limitations on the Iranian nuclear program is a positive and major step forward, a panel of leading science and security experts convened by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists cautioned today that a measure now moving through Congress will do little to address a wide range of technical issues that must be resolved in the coming months. (prnewswire.com)
An early review of the State Department list of the central points of the agreement shows a variety of positive limitations on enrichment levels and quantity, low-enriched uranium stocks, the Arak reactor, and reprocessing, as well as broad International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) authorities for access to Iranian nuclear facilities, including any suspected covert facilities. (prnewswire.com)
The Iranian regime must understand that it faces devastating consequences if it attempts -- by any means -- to acquire nuclear weapons. (americanthinker.com)
As clear as it is today that a nuclear weapon in the hands of the Third Reich would have spelled catastrophe, so should it be clear with the Iranian theocracy. (americanthinker.com)
If the Iranian regime is peaceful (or rational), then it should readily accept such an attractive bargain. (americanthinker.com)
4) Iranian regime leaders have persistently denied Israel's right to exist. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
The more sophisticated form of the argument that you hear more from policy analysts rather than politicians is that no, the Iranian regime is not a bunch of crazies, but the mere possession of a nuclear weapon would affect their behavior. (kcur.org)
One is, ever since President John Kennedy - news back during his presidency, about how we could have as many as 25 nuclear-weapon states by the 1970s, many of the estimates of the pace of nuclear proliferation - just like estimates of the pace of the Iranian program - have been overestimates. (kcur.org)
INSKEEP: So you argue, Paul Pillar, that people have overestimated the dangers of an Iranian nuclear weapon. (kcur.org)
The nuclear issue and our other concerns can ultimately be resolved only if the Iranian regime makes the strategic decision to change these policies, open up its political system, and afford freedom to its people. (antiwar.com)
Beginning in 1979, agents of the Iranian regime illegally seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and held more than 60 Americans hostage during the 444 days of the crisis. (eurasiareview.com)
In Syria, the Iranian regime has supported the atrocities of Bashar al-Assad's regime and condoned Assad's use of chemical weapons against helpless civilians, including many, many children. (eurasiareview.com)
With his usual apocalyptic rhetoric, he said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could lead the region to a new world war if his nation builds a nuclear bomb. (yourbbsucks.com)
According to its supporters, this agreement has supposedly curtailed the Iranian regime's nuclear program, preventing it from developing a nuclear weapon, and becoming a threat to world peace. (alarabiya.net)
As far as the Iranian regime is concerned, the deal has given it a breathing space, one with which to give its military the time it needs to work tirelessly towards a long-term project, which is to develop a nuclear-capable ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile), with the ability to strike the eastern seaboard of the United States. (alarabiya.net)
It also has a nice paragraph about Iranian 'threat of nuclear arms', as well as the recent sanctions. (unexplained-mysteries.com)
With other German politicians scheduled to tour, Weinthal concludes that "[i]t appears that for Berlin, promoting its flourishing trade relationship with Tehran and preserving the 'historical treasure of the German-Iranian friendship' trump concerns for human rights and nuclear proliferation. (lobelog.com)
Inbar says that an Iranian nuclear program could threaten the regional stability of the Middle East, Europe and South Asia. (lobelog.com)
He wants to "ensure that sanctions are aggressively enforced" and to keep the military option on the table - euphemistically referred to by stating: "We must also work together to send a clear message to the Iranian regime that the U.S. is unified and determined to prevent it from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability-through peaceful means if we possibly can, by other means if we absolutely must. (lobelog.com)

The impetus, of course, is the rapid development of North Korea's nuclear and missile programs, which will soon give Pyongyang the capability to hit any American city with a nuclear-tipped ICBM. (victorhanson.com)
Economic sanctions must be tightened and increased and all options must remain on the table to stop a brutally repressive regime from acquiring a nuclear capability. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
It is believed that North Korea has acquired a capability to target the U.S. mainland with its ICBMs. (thediplomat.com)
It is unlikely that Kim Jong-Un, or any leader able to navigate the cutthroat internal politics of the regime, would be willing to surrender the bargaining advantage a nuclear capability represents. (smallwarsjournal.com)
Countries which were unable to achieve conventional military parity with their rivals are especially eager for a nuclear capability. (smallwarsjournal.com)
Rather, it's about regime change which is exactly what the Iranians are trying to prevent by seeking to acquire a nuclear weapons capability. (antiwar.com)
In Russia's view, U.S. assurances that the planned missile defenses will not target Russian strategic nuclear forces do not repeal the law of gravity, and Russia's capability to deliver a retaliatory strike will be eventually called into doubt as these defenses develop. (belfercenter.org)
Repressive regimes, though, would quickly utilize this new capability. (thelibertypapers.org)
This vengeful and volatile regime must not in any circumstances be allowed to gain a nuclear weapons capability, whatever the P5+1 states might consider the short-term economic, political or strategic benefits to themselves of a deal with Tehran. (gatestoneinstitute.org)

It is therefore important that we use those years to create a stronger nonproliferation regime in the Middle East. (prnewswire.com)
And, thanks to previous gaps in the nonproliferation regime, supplier restraints would not prohibit Pakistan , which is not a member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, from supplying Saudi Arabia with the dual use equipment it would need to produce HEU. (prnewswire.com)
PILLAR: Anytime any state that did not have nuclear weapons acquires them, it is a blow against the global nonproliferation regime. (kcur.org)

In addition, nuclear testing has ended, the United States and Russia have agreed not to target their missiles against each other on a day-to-day basis, and production of weapons-grade fissile material has stopped in the United States and is expected to stop soon in Russia. (armscontrol.org)
Should his regime acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year. (ucsb.edu)

Despite the pressure, the Tehran regime didn't abandon its goal of developing nuclear weapons. (ynetnews.com)
The result is a terrorist attack that kills either American soldiers or civilians, which then makes the regime in Tehran a legitimate target in the global war on terrorism just as the Taliban regime in Afghanistan was. (antiwar.com)
Bush says he wants diplomacy to settle the nuclear dispute with Tehran, and hopes international pressure will finally convince Ahmadinejad to come to his senses. (yourbbsucks.com)

In the 2022 Nuclear Posture Review, the United States reiterated its firm stance over North Korea's nuclear and missile threats. (thediplomat.com)
On Thursday the U.S. Defense Department published the "2022 National Defense Strategy" report that consisted of three divided reports covering the national defense strategy, nuclear posture review, and missile defense review. (thediplomat.com)
In the sixth nuclear test in September 2017, North Korea claimed that it successfully tested "a two-stage thermonuclear device" that could fit on its intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). (thediplomat.com)
The spate of North Korean short-range ballistic missile tests from September 25 to October 9 was conducted by "tactical nuclear operations units" of the Korean People's Army, according to state media. (thediplomat.com)
Kokoshin, who has spent decades helping to formulate Russia's defense policies, describes other challenges to strategic stability as well, including the development of ballistic missile defenses, incapacitation of early warning or targeting or navigational systems, and breakthroughs in research and development that devalue existing nuclear weaponry systems. (belfercenter.org)
At the same time, the regime has been strengthening its internal defences, through creating its own long-range missile defence system, the Bavar 373, to protect vital installations from attack from the air. (alarabiya.net)

Capturing the device of an American is one of the few possible ways for a repressive regime to get at the info. (thelibertypapers.org)

The problem is the Israeli regime itself. (veteranstoday.com)
Well, it would work against the diabolical plans of the Israeli regime because the regime itself doesn't want to abide by the political and moral order. (veteranstoday.com)
An Israeli official told reporters last month that the Iranians would likely make more efforts to develop their nuclear program. (foreignpolicy.com)
In the September strike, Israeli bombers were likely targeting a nuclear reactor under construction, parts of which are alleged to have come from North Korea. (yourbbsucks.com)
The possession of nuclear weapons would be used as an absolute last resort, considering American and even Israeli nuclear deterrence capabilities. (unexplained-mysteries.com)
Neuchterlein pretends that Obama has no influence over Israel, even though the United States gives Israel billions of dollars worth of weapons, vetoes every measure of accountability for Israeli crimes at the United Nations, and works closely with the Israeli military and Mossad. (davidswanson.org)

Today, Saddam Hussein has the scientists and infrastructure for a nuclear weapons program and has illicitly sought to purchase the equipment needed to enrich uranium for a nuclear weapon. (ucsb.edu)
Once it has the enriched uranium, however, it could take at least several months to turn it into a working weapon. (iranwatch.org)

Today I'm meeting with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi about the growing danger posed by Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq and the unique opportunity the U.N. Security Council has to confront it. (ucsb.edu)
Saddam Hussein's regime continues to support terrorist groups and to oppress its civilian population. (ucsb.edu)
By supporting terrorist groups, repressing its own people, and pursuing weapons of mass destruction in defiance of a decade of U.N. resolutions, Saddam Hussein's regime has proven itself a grave and gathering danger. (ucsb.edu)
As the United Nations prepares an effective response to Iraq's defense, I also welcome next week's congressional hearings on the threats Saddam Hussein's brutal regime poses to our country and the entire world. (ucsb.edu)
In fact, the WMD lies of 2002-2003 are given new support - albeit baseless and undocumented - in Nuechterlein's claim that the war was intended "to overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime and prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons. (davidswanson.org)

Given Kim's ambition to complete his nuclear forces by strengthening tactical nuclear capabilities, however, the North may test a miniaturized nuclear device that can fit on its short-range ballistic missiles. (thediplomat.com)
Doubtful of Western resolve, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey are already investigating the development of their own nuclear capabilities. (gatestoneinstitute.org)

After the sanctions were lifted, the dictatorship used its new funds to build nuclear-capable missiles, support terrorism, and cause havoc throughout the Middle East and beyond. (vox.com)
James Henry says the Panama Papers expose all kinds of national security issues: "Thirty-three individuals had companies set up by Mossack Fonseca that were engaged in sanctions-busting - helping North Korea acquire nuclear weapons, helping the Assad regime buy arms. (fsrn.org)

If Washington were to acquire intelligence that North Korea was about to attack the United States-or even U.S. allies such as South Korea and Japan-there is no doubt that a preemptive strike would be warranted. (victorhanson.com)
But it is a different matter when it comes to a preventive war against North Korea, which is armed not only with nuclear weapons but also chemical and biological weapons and 10,000 artillery tubes in close proximity to Seoul. (victorhanson.com)
In the 2022 Nuclear Posture Review report, the United States reiterated its firm stance in the case of North Korea using its nuclear weapons against Washington or its allies. (thediplomat.com)
Any nuclear attack by North Korea against the United States or its allies and partners is unacceptable and will result in the end of that regime," the report said. (thediplomat.com)
Since its first nuclear test in 2006, North Korea has consistently developed its nuclear weapons. (thediplomat.com)
Five years after its nuclear and ICBM test in 2017, North Korea is now accused of being ready to conduct its seventh nuclear test, based on satellite imagery capturing restoration activities at Punggye-ri nuclear test site and the analysis of Seoul's spy agency. (thediplomat.com)
It is unclear what nuclear device North Korea might test in its seventh nuclear test. (thediplomat.com)
In keeping with that recent focus, North Korea may test a nuclear device that can be deployed in the frontline units near the inter-Korean border. (thediplomat.com)
Seoul has publicly stated several times that North Korea is ready to conduct a nuclear test whenever Kim Jong Un decides. (thediplomat.com)
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said on Tuesday that North Korea had completed preparations for the seventh nuclear test. (thediplomat.com)
Given the North's recent activities to legitimize the use of its nuclear weapons, including the codification of a law to support it, Seoul's Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup called for shifting the South's defense strategy regarding North Korea to "deterring" the use of nuclear weapons. (thediplomat.com)
Regardless of the diplomatic skills or personal characteristics of the negotiators, there are powerful reasons for North Korea to continue its nuclear program. (smallwarsjournal.com)
The broad perceived utility of nuclear weapons, the culture of North Korea's leadership elite, and the incentive structure of international politics all suggest that, in the long-term, North Korea will maintain and expand its nuclear deterrent. (smallwarsjournal.com)

Graham's unusual public support for overturning Ahmadinejad and the ruling council of Shiite Muslim clerics that he nominally heads recalled President George W. Bush's controversial policy of regime change to invade Iraq in 2003 and overthrow dictator Saddam Hussein. (truthout.org)
Graham's aides later said his reference to regime change entailed both the overthrow of Ahmadinejad and the removal of the Islamic clerics that many analysts believe at least partially control him. (truthout.org)

The study calls for a program of progressive constraints to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals to 1,000 total warheads each and then, if security conditions permit, to a few hundred warheads, provided adequate verification procedures and transparency measures have been implemented. (armscontrol.org)
We fully support the authority and independence of the IAEA and Director-General Grossi and will continue to work with the IAEA, in line with our non-proliferation and safeguards obligations, to develop a robust verification approach for our proposed nuclear-powered submarines program. (dfat.gov.au)
The former head of the U.N. team investigating Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program, Richard Butler, reached this conclusion after years of experience: "The fundamental problem with Iraq remains the nature of the regime itself. (ucsb.edu)

What perfect justice for the U.S. to return the favor to Assad tenfold by infiltrating weapons into Syria from western Iraq. (captainsjournal.com)
At some point, when the Assad Regime continues to kill and torture its citizens, the U.S. must do more than just offer a rhetorical bone to the opposition. (captainsjournal.com)

We are committed to setting the highest possible non-proliferation standard and to strengthening the global nuclear non-proliferation regime. (dfat.gov.au)
In the Foreword to this paper by Andrei Kokoshin, Belfer Center Director Graham Allison writes: "The global nuclear order is reaching a tipping point. (belfercenter.org)

The reduced forces could still inflict catastrophic damage on the societies they target or could target, and the thousands of non-deployed and non-strategic nuclear warheads not addressed by the START process and likely to be retained without further agreements will pose substantial risks of breakout, theft, or unauthorized use. (armscontrol.org)

And when I walked among the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem, I grasped the existential fear of Israelis when a modern dictator seeks nuclear weapons and threatens to wipe Israel off the map. (jmcc.org)
Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction. (ucsb.edu)

Swiss citizens concerned by the threat of Islamic radicalism might consider outlawing, too, their country's current status as a financial haven for terrorist groups and the regimes that sponsor them. (berlinski.com)
The regime remains the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, and provides assistance to al Qaeda, the Taliban, Hezbollah, Hamas, and other terrorist networks. (eurasiareview.com)

So the Iranians have no incentive to give up their quest for nuclear weapons since doing so will not result in a guarantee that the regime will remain in power. (antiwar.com)

In boasting of the successful launch , the North Koreans called it a "medium long-range" ballistic rocket that can carry a heavy nuclear warhead. (nbcnews.com)

A radical Islamist take-over is even more frightening because they would take control of a massive Egyptian army, twice the size of Israel s, trained by the U.S., possessing ballistic missiles, chemical weapons, hundreds of U.S.-made warplanes, thousands of tanks and dozens of ships, purchased with over $30 billion of U.S. military aid. (zoa.org)

Congress must make it unmistakably clear that when it comes to confronting the growing danger posed by Iraq's efforts to develop or acquire weapons of mass destruction, the status quo is totally unacceptable. (ucsb.edu)

It's not simply because we face common dangers, although there can be no denying that terrorism and the spread of nuclear weapons are grave threats to both our nations. (jmcc.org)
It also gave the regime an immediate financial boost and over $100 billion dollars its government could use to fund terrorism. (eurasiareview.com)
According to the U.S. House Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, superdollars may be part of the regime's effort to acquire materials for nuclear weapons. (time.com)

Israel's attacks on nuclear facilities in Iraq (1981) and Syria (2007)-even if not strictly sanctioned under international law. (victorhanson.com)
Connections are made and relationships formed by providing material assistance (even if covert) to the opposition groups in Syria who at least have a willingness to work with the U.S. How do we know that we will not be supplying weapons and training to Islamist militants? (captainsjournal.com)
This regime has fueled sectarian violence in Iraq, and vicious civil wars in Yemen and Syria. (eurasiareview.com)

As the United States emerges from the era of so-called forever wars, it should abandon the regime change business for good. (belfercenter.org)
Despite the dictatorial nature of the Mubarak regime and despite the ZOA s long-standing view that U.S. aid to it should be conditioned on its reforming its policies, the ZOA believes that the Obama Administration should not abandon a long-standing ally and should instead work to ensure that it does not entirely collapse. (zoa.org)

President Vladimir Putin's own (self-described) 'grandiose plan' to restore Russia's armed forces includes a nuclear buildup. (yourbbsucks.com)

We welcome Director-General Grossi's report to the September IAEA Board of Governors meeting, confirming his satisfaction with the AUKUS' partners engagement with the IAEA to date and that naval nuclear propulsion is not prohibited by the NPT regime. (dfat.gov.au)
We are deeply disappointed by China's - a P5 member and nuclear weapons state - unfounded and harmful claims about the professionalism and independence of the IAEA. (dfat.gov.au)

It concludes with a discussion of the conditions and means under which, in the longer term, it could become desirable and feasible to prohibit the possession of nuclear weapons altogether. (armscontrol.org)
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) does not prohibit the acquisition of naval nuclear propulsion by non-nuclear weapon states. (dfat.gov.au)

Superdollars can be viewed as an act of economic warfare, but Pyongyang's motive is probably more mundane: the regime is broke. (time.com)
Thus, they believed strongly that the broken regime had the ability to stand alone only if South Koreans could heal the scars through economic assistance. (asiasentinel.com)

Today, this regime likely maintains stockpiles of chemical and biological agents and is improving and expanding facilities capable of producing chemical and biological weapons. (ucsb.edu)

In other words, at the point when the United States had maximum leverage, this disastrous deal gave this regime - and it's a regime of great terror - many billions of dollars, some of it in actual cash - a great embarrassment to me as a citizen and to all citizens of the United States. (vox.com)

In the North's annual New Year commentary, Pyongyang called for better relations with the South, warning that war could lead to a 'nuclear holocaust. (asiasentinel.com)
In addition to supplying substantial amounts of aid including 90 percent of the North's oil at sharply lower 'friendly prices,' China has co-opted and trained a pro-Chinese cadre of North Korean functionaries and elites in the hopes that they would become collaborators under the coming regime of Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-il's son and presumptive heir. (asiasentinel.com)
In the cable, Kathleen Stephens, the U.S. ambassador to South Korea, reported on a breakfast with Hyun in which she said that Kim Jong-Il was disappointed after the North's second nuclear test in May 2009, when China did not object to a UN Security Council resolution condemning the communist country for the test. (asiasentinel.com)
China appears to believe that in the case of a contingency plan for the collapse of the north's government, it could thus recruit North Korean military men, using them to virtually rule the Kim regime and its population faster than the US could move into place to support the South to take over. (asiasentinel.com)

Your association has taken a significant role in fostering public awareness of nuclear disarmament and has led to its advancement. (armscontrol.org)

The first Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I), signed in 1991 as the Cold War was ending and now being implemented by both the United States and Russia, will reduce the number of strategic nuclear warheads deployed by the two countries from 13,000 and 11,000, respectively, to about 8,000 each. (armscontrol.org)
At the Helsinki summit in March 1997 Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin agreed to seek a START III treaty with a level of 2,000 to 2,500 deployed strategic nuclear warheads. (armscontrol.org)
How about this negotiation: all paries stop threatening war, and all parties comply with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. (davidswanson.org)

This radical regime has raided the wealth of one of the world's oldest and most vibrant nations, and spread death, destruction, and chaos all around the globe. (eurasiareview.com)

PURPOSE: Preparedness for medical responses to major radiation accidents and the increasing threat of nuclear warfare worldwide necessitates an understanding of the complexity of combined radiation injury (CI) and identifying drugs to treat CI is inevitably critical. (bvsalud.org)

The report was prepared by the NAS Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC), a group of distinguished scientists, retired senior military officers and experts policy analysts, most of whom have been closely associated with various aspects of nuclear security affairs. (armscontrol.org)
If I allowed this deal to stand, there would soon be a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. (vox.com)
But even with the negotiations looking like a serious uphill slog at this point, some experts and former officials believe that the juice is worth the squeeze, especially if it moves the region off the track of a possible nuclear arms race. (foreignpolicy.com)
You know, you walk in and there's the tax dodger, there's the money launder, there's the inside trader, there's the kleptocrat that's stealing money from the public treasury in South Africa and channeling it offshore so he's not audited, the arms dealer paying bribes to the president so they buy his weapons. (fsrn.org)

The young Islamic Republic was a revolutionary regime that aimed to export its brand of theocracy by fomenting revolution across the Middle East. (vox.com)

The ZOA opposes supporting its removal, because this may well result in a new regime that will be dominated by the dangerously extreme, violently anti-American, anti-Israel, pro-jihad Islamist Muslim Brotherhood or other radical groups. (zoa.org)

The inability to deter a potential attacker, the immediacy of today's threats, and the magnitude of potential harm that could be caused by our adversaries' choice of weapons, do not permit that option. (victorhanson.com)

This report-based on an exhaustive reexamination of the issues addressed in the committee's 1991 report on The Future of the U.S.Soviet Nuclear Relationship -describes the state to which U.S. and Russian nuclear forces and policies have evolved since the Cold War ended, the reasons why further evolution is desirable, and the shape of a regime of progressive constraints responsive to these reasons. (armscontrol.org)

Did Pakistan Just Overhaul Its Nuclear Doctrine? (belfercenter.org)

Andrei Kokoshin, deputy of the State Duma and former secretary of Russia's Security Council, analyzes these challenges that threaten to cause the nuclear order to collapse in the following paper. (belfercenter.org)

For the next 26 years, the US supported and armed the shah's regime - a brutal dictatorship that tortured dissenters but was seen in Washington as a staunch ally against Soviet communism. (vox.com)

In 1996, the regime directed another bombing of American military housing in Saudi Arabia, murdering 19 Americans in cold blood. (eurasiareview.com)

A meeting of joint commission tasked with monitoring the implementation of nuclear deal in Vienna on December 7, 2015. (alarabiya.net)

the Kennedy administration did not realize that the Soviets had already activated tactical nuclear weapons in Cuba and given their commanders discretion to use them. (victorhanson.com)

His aim in acquiring nuclear weapons is defensive-to allow his criminal regime to survive. (victorhanson.com)
There is no scenario in which the Kim regime could employ nuclear weapons and survive. (thediplomat.com)

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