Turning a Page on Syria’s Proliferation Past
“We are now turning a page … Turning a page does not mean forgetting the past; it means just the opposite — which is confronting it, confronting it with eyes wide open,” declared Rafael...
Operation Outside the Box
Syria Agrees To Turn Over Assad-Era Nuclear Material
Syria has reportedly agreed to turn over nuclear material — remnants of the Assad regime’s clandestine nuclear program — to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) under a U.S.-brokered deal. According...
Policy Briefs
Israel Promises Response to Iran Attack as World Leaders Urge Restraint
Israel’s war cabinet decided to strike back at Iran “clearly and forcefully” during a closed-door meeting on April 15. The Times of Israel, citing Israel’s Channel 12, reported that the cabinet chose to respond to send a message that Israel “would not allow an attack of that magnitude against it to pass without a...
Flash Briefs
Iran Approaches the Nuclear Threshold
Washington’s Narrowing Policy Options
Memos
Iran Could Face a Summer of Nuclear Sabotage
A powerful explosion destroyed an advanced centrifuge assembly plant in Iran earlier this month, an event which anonymous sources told U.S. journalists was the result of Israeli sabotage. An attack by Jerusalem...
Insights
No one in the sun- and gas-soaked Middle East needs nuclear power
Wednesday’s decision by the Islamic Republic of Iran to break the restrictions of the Iran nuclear deal is a further reminder that neither Iran, nor for that matter Saudi Arabia, needs nuclear power...
Op-eds
Reactor-Grade Plutonium and Nuclear Weapons: Exploding the Myths
By Gregory S. Jones with Foreword by Olli Heinonen
Books
It’s the Proliferation, Stupid
As the world prepares for a possible fifth nuclear weapons...
Op-eds
Obama’s Arms-Control Delusion
Advocates of the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran argue that, despite the duplicity of the Iranian regime, the deal will work because arms control worked to contain the nuclear...
Op-eds
It’s Time to Pursue Regime Change in Iran
There are lots of reasons to be skeptical that 2015 will see a diplomatic breakthrough in efforts to end Iran’s nuclear weapons bid. But one of the more compelling...
Op-eds
Iran Could Outsource Its Nuclear-Weapons Program To North Korea
As the Iran nuclear talks grind toward a soft July 20 deadline in Vienna, U.S. negotiators and their partners seem oblivious to a loophole that could render any agreement meaningless. Tehran coul...
Op-eds
Breaking the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nexus
Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, and Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade...
Op-eds
Breaking the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nexus
Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, and Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade...
Legislative Testimonies
Iran and Israel Fight, Lebanon Loses
It’s been more than two weeks since the Israeli airstrike in Syria against the arms convoy headed for Hezbollah in Lebanon. Bits of information, coupled with ominous ...
Op-eds
Why Iran Already Has the Bomb
If North Korea has the bomb—as this week’s nuclear test indicated—then for all practical purposes, so does Iran.
Op-eds
Why the US Could Bomb Iran
The White House’s line—that a strike can only delay the program—is an attempt to downplay our military capability
Op-eds
On Syria, Follow McCain
Here’s to John McCain, leading from the front. Last week, the Arizona senator cut through all the White House doubletalk on the Syrian uprising and demanded a more active U.S. policy, inclu...
Op-eds
Bibi, the Begin Doctrine, and the U.S.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech on Monday at the AIPAC conference reinforcing the Begin Doctrine — the preemptive-milit...
Op-eds
Israel Has the Power to Knock Out Iran’s Nuclear Facilities
Israel's “determination to prevent confrontation states . . . from gaining access to nuclear weapons” is the preemptive foreign policy doctrine of the Jewish state. Thos...
Op-eds
Grand Strategy
Contrary to Washington wisdom, Israel is a clear strategic asset to the United States.