The Cold Wars are Coming

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The U.S.-Soviet nuclear rivalry was scary enough. Now imagine a world with multiple atomic antagonists.
May 15, 2006
Fast forward to 2016. What does the world look like? One plausible scenario is that it will be a world of multiple mini-Cold Wars, with nuclear powers eyeball to eyeball in nearly every region. To [...]

Seoul looks to abandon reliance on U.S. military

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By Choe Sang-Hun International Herald TribunePublished: August 10, 2006

Seoul and Washington – at the request of South Korea – are working on a plan that will shift wartime operational control of Korean troops from the combined U.S.-South Korean forces command, headed by an American general, to the South Koreans.
In a joint statement [...]

When could Iran get the Bomb?

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By David Albright
July/August 2006 pp. 26-33 (vol. 62, no. 4) © 2006 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Given another year to make enough HEU for a nuclear weapon, and a few more months to convert the uranium into weapon components, Iran could have its first nuclear weapon in 2009. By this time, Iran could have [...]

How Iran Obtained Uranium Enrichment Technology – Centrifuges

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By David Albright and Corey Hinderstein
March/April 2004 pp. 61-66 (vol. 60, no. 02) © 2004 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Iran has admitted to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that it made secret efforts to procure the wherewithal to make sophisticated gas centrifuges to enrich uranium. But few believe that Iran has told the [...]