Apples, Honey, and Centrifuges: How to Talk to Your Jewish Grandmother about the Iran Deal
James M. Acton | Tikkun
Next Monday is Rosh Hashanah, and from Brooklyn to Boca Raton, Jewish families will come together to mark the New Year with lavish feasts and stilted conversations. No Jewish holiday ever goes by without a family argument and no Jewish grandchild is in any doubt about this year’s topic: the Iran nuclear deal.
Iran Deal Debate Delayed as Talk of Secret Deals Divides G.O.P.
David M. Herszenhorn | New York Times
Confronted with a rank-and-file uprising, House Republican leaders on Wednesday abruptly shifted tactics in their battle against President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, splitting off from their Senate colleagues and all but ensuring that no legislation opposing the accord will emerge from Congress this month.
US Spy Chief ‘Pretty Confident’ He’ll Know If Iran Cheats on Nuclear Deal
Patrick Tucker | Defense One
America’s top spy says he’s “pretty confident” that the U.S. will be able tell whether Iran is cheating on the proposed nuclear deal, thanks in part to special new tools the intelligence community has developed to buttress inspections and international monitoring efforts.
World nuclear capacity set to grow by 45 percent by 2035
Nina Chestney | Reuters
Global nuclear power generation capacity could increase by more than 45 percent in the next 20 years but the pace of growth will still fall short of what is needed to curb climate change, an industry organization report showed on Thursday.
Broadest deterrence capability to be kept
Baqir Sajjad Syed | Dawn
Pakistan’s National Command Authority (NCA) concluded on Wednesday that India’s rapidly growing nuclear programme and absence of a conflict resolution mechanism were upsetting strategic stability in the region and the situation was compelling Pakistan to maintain ‘full-spectrum deterrence capability’.
Russia Building Nuclear-Armed Drone Submarine
Bill Gertz | Washington Free Beacon
Russia is building a drone submarine to deliver large-scale nuclear weapons against U.S. harbors and coastal cities, according to Pentagon officials.