Nuclear Strategy, Nonproliferation, and the Causes of Foreign Nuclear Deployments

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Security Strategy in US Foreign Policy; Intrinsic Contradiction with tanesh zodaee Policies of Islamic Republic of Iran (with an Emphasis on Nuclear Issue)

US politicians have found post cold war conditions an appropriate ground for the implementation of hegemonic stability with pivotal role of US. This issue has led to growing US intervention in various parts of the world. This article tries to answer this question: what decisions have been inspired by security and hegemony-seeking strategy in US foreign policy about Iran's nuclear issue? Initial...

Japan’s Plutonium Program: a Proliferation Threat?

The Japanese plutonium program continues to dwell on the minds of nuclear nonproliferation watchers. Japan remains the only non-nuclear weapon state that is operating uranium enrichment and reprocessing plants, all of which are technically capable of producing fissile materials for nuclear weapons. The magnitude of these projects exceeds those of other nations that have either abandoned or post...

Nonproliferation Policy: a Quintet for Two Violas?

The Nonproliferation Review/Spring-Summer 1994 Current thinking about nonproliferation issues tends to deal with nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction in a political vacuum, choosing to see these issues in a security-oriented context. This perspective reduces the complex rhythms and multiple voices of the process of proliferation to a single element-security. Just as a string qu...

Introduction : Assessing US Nonproliferation Assistance to the NIS Special Report

Dr. James Clay Moltz is Assistant Director and Research Professor at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he also directs the Newly Independent States Nonproliferation Project. He was the first Editor of The Nonproliferation Review (1993-98) and is co-editor of The North Korean Nuclear Program: Security, Strategy, and New Perspectives...