Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
If the IAEA doesn't ask Iran tough questions, it may be easier to end the Iranian nuclear crisis. But would that stop Iran from secretly developing nuclear weapons?
It is unlikely that Russia's problem with nuclear safeguards will vanish overnight by mid-2013.
Supporters of the evolution of nuclear safeguards should resolve Russia’s concerns over the IAEA’s safeguards system so it can be adapted to new challenges.
After the release of Carnegie's study, entitled "Why Fukushima Was Preventable," TEPCO responded to some of the claims made in the report.
There were three messages sent by the IAEA's Board of Governors' Iran resolution on Thursday. Two messages were for Iran and the other was a message to Israel.
The recent report by the International Atomic Energy Agency makes it clear that Iran continues to enrich uranium in violation of Security Council resolutions, and it continues to obstruct the IAEA investigation mandated by those resolutions.
An Israeli attack against Iran's nuclear installations could put international nuclear inspectors at risk and would likely put the International Atomic Energy Agency in a tricky diplomatic situation.
Progress in negotiating bilateral agreements for peaceful nuclear cooperation has been held up because of a debate in the United States over how to limit the spread of uranium enrichment and spent fuel reprocessing capabilities worldwide.
Taiwan's resolve not to enrich or reprocess has nothing to do with the "gold standard" and nearly everything to do with U.S. leverage over Taiwan's security arrangements.
The UN Security Council report published last week documents North Korea's efforts in setting up a large-scale uranium enrichment plant after sanctions were first imposed five years ago.
