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Letter From,
Ronen Bergman

The Israeli public and the country's intelligence experts have two different views of the threat posed by the Iranian nuclear program. Which will win out, and what is Washington's influence?

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Snapshot,
Frank Procida

The debate in Washington about Iran's nuclear program has lost all sense of proportion. A nuclear-armed Iran would be a threat, but largely to the regime in Tehran.

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Comment, May/June 2009
Michael Krepon

The threat of nuclear armageddon is overblown. Instead of stoking fear, policymakers should focus on securing existing nuclear materials and keeping them out of the hands of potential proliferators.

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Comment, May/June 2009
Amitai Etzioni

The expansion of the Proliferation Security Initiative to South Korea is a welcome development. The PSI is not only a promising model for combating nuclear proliferation, but also offers a blueprint for future international cooperation.

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Snapshot,
Victor D. Cha

What North Korea hoped to gain from its failed missile launch -- and how Washington can avoid falling into its negotiating trap.

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Essay, Mar/Apr 2009
Rachel L. Loeffler

Financial sanctions have become a key tool of U.S. foreign policy. Measures taken against Iran and North Korea make clear that this new financial statecraft can be effective, but true success will require persuading global banks to accept a shared sense of risk.

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Comment, May/June 2007
Bates Gill and Martin Kleiber

China's recent antisatellite test, which the military conducted while leaving civilian authorities mostly in the dark, raises a disturbing question: Will Beijing's stovepiped bureaucracies prevent China from becoming a reliable global partner?

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Comment, Sep/Oct 2006
Stephen Peter Rosen

How to prevent nuclear proliferation is once again topping the U.S. security agenda. But few decision-makers are seriously considering what a postproliferation world would look like, even though such a world would inevitably require rethinking many of the policies that the U.S. government and others now take for granted.

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Essay, Sep/Oct 2006
Scott D. Sagan

The debate over how to deal with Iran's nuclear program is clouded by historical amnesia. Nuclear proliferation has been stopped before, and it can and should be stopped in this case as well. Unfortunately, with Tehran -- as with some of its predecessors -- the price for Washington will be relinquishing the threat of regime change by force.

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Essay, Jul/Aug 2005
Richard N. Haass

So far, the Bush administration has shown it would like to resolve its problems with North Korea and Iran the same way it did with Iraq: through regime change. It is easy to see why. But the strategy is unlikely to work, at least not quickly enough. A much broader approach -- involving talks, sanctions, and the threat of force -- is needed.

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