India and Pakistan need more than incremental steps toward peace and stability in South Asia—they must also make symbolic leaps.
An assessment of the technological reasons why North Korea may soon conduct another nuclear test.
In anticipation of a nuclear renaissance, investors tempted by speculative price increases during the last decade have been searching for uranium in places off the beaten track.
If there is a cache of uranium in the greater Damascus area, it very well could be in the crossfire of antagonists, a possibility that makes Israel and some Western governments nervous.
Disarmament efforts have reached an impasse. Breaking the stalemate requires creating a security framework that addresses the concerns of all states.
A comprehensive P5+1 Iran deal that included a Russo-Iranian agreement on nuclear cooperation could give Moscow a powerful incentive to work with the West and open a sustainable path for Iran toward commercial nuclear power development.
The North Korean crisis shows that limiting IAEA authority to assure that Iran is not hiding nuclear activities will hurt efforts to end the Iranian nuclear crisis.
In anticipation of this week's meeting between Iran and the IAEA, there has been some talk about what should happen with the IAEA's file on "possible military dimensions" of Iran's nuclear program if the United States decides to strike a deal with Iran.
Over the last decade, specialists have been quietly changing the architecture of the IAEA safeguards system, but they haven’t explained things to the outside world—including the IAEA’s member states.
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?