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The Atomic Rulebook: Iran and IAEA Safeguard Violations

Originally published here. A Page From History, And The Atomic Rulebook On December 8, 1953, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed that there should be an international, independent, nuclear watchdog agency, an organization to monitor “the dread secret and the fearful engines of atomic might…”. Thus, in 1957, the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA [...]
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Beyond The Headlines: What’s Really Going On With That “Iran Nuclear Deal”?

Originally published here. It has been a very interesting and tense month-and-a-half for arms control and nuclear non-proliferation advocates, both those associated with a variety of Western governments as well as those in non-governmental organizations and think tanks. Against the backdrop of the September 25 revelation of a covert uranium enrichment facility in Iran, the [...]
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The Fruits of Diplomacy

Previously published here. The past few weeks have seen some pretty interesting developments in a realm not many people usually think too much about, but one that affects all of us: nuclear weapons, and the control of their proliferation. Specifically, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) learned that Iran had been building a covert uranium [...]
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