Iran Needs to Come Clean With What, Not Why
James Acton | Hill
After 18 months of negotiations, one of the remaining challenges to reaching a nuclear deal with Iran is the extent to which Tehran must “come clean” about the history of its nuclear program and, in particular, about apparent efforts to design a nuclear weapon. The International Atomic Energy Agency has been pressing Tehran for years to explain these “Possible Military Dimensions”—but with little success.
Iran Would Get Nuclear Help in Proposed Deal
George Jahn | Associated Press
Western powers are offering Tehran high-tech reactors under a proposed nuclear agreement, a confidential document says, but a defiant speech by Iran's supreme leader less than a week before a negotiating deadline casts doubt on whether he's willing to make the necessary concessions to seal a deal.
How to Lift — and Reimpose — Sanctions Key to Iran Nuclear Deal
Steven Mufson | Washington Post
The Obama administration is trying to fashion a nuclear deal with Iran that would give the United States the flexibility to reimpose limited sanctions without scuttling the entire deal, according to people who attended White House meetings on the matter last week.
South Korea's Efforts to Strengthen Regimes and Frameworks for the Safe and Secure Use of Nuclear Energy
Toby Dalton | Council on Foreign Relations
South Korea stands in a unique position among the global nuclear elite: it is the top user of nuclear power that is not also a nuclear weapon state. The only states producing more nuclear power than the ROK all have nuclear weapons. Thus South Korea’s rise to this position gives it a special standing and legitimacy in its commitment to nonproliferation.
Summary of the Project 4202 Developments
Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces
In an article in Jane's Intelligence Review, "Russia tests hypersonic glide vehicle", published last week, Alexander Stukalin and I tried to put together all that is known about Project 4202 to this date.
Plan B For Iran
Michael Crowley | Politico
President Barack Obama’s nuclear diplomacy with Iran may yet fail. On Tuesday, exactly one week before a June 30 deadline for an agreement, Iran’s Supreme Leader delivered his latest in a series of defiant statements, setting conditions for a deal—including immediate relief from sanctions, before Iran has taken steps to limit its nuclear program.