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When it comes to Iran’s nuclear threat, the powers that be always conjure up worst-case scenarios. ‘But the underlying assumptions need to be questioned more thoroughly. Why would a nuclear Iran necessarily set off a nuclear arms race in the Middle East? The conventional wisdom is that the Sunni Arab powers fear the power of Shiite Persia, and [...]

North Korea has announced that it has begun the ‘last phase’ in the process of enriching uranium to build nuclear weapons. At the same time, the North Korean communist regime said it is also into the parallel process of extracting plutonium from the nuclear fuel rods stored at its Yongbyon reactor. The North Korean delegation at the UN in a letter [...]

North Korea takes a confident stance regarding its nuclear weapons program. According to the country’s state media, “Uranium enrichment tests have been successfully carried out and that process is in the concluding stage.” This brings yet another worry to anti-nuclearization critics of the communist regime. Now that ‘North Korea has entered [...]

Pyongyang has proven its nuclear doggedness. In spite of tremendous international criticism that puts North Korea in a pariah state, it has gone ahead to test nuclear and ballistic missile weapons. Add to that is its ‘nuclear technology proliferation to terrorist-supporting states,’ plus its mounting human-rights abuses. Those opposed to North [...]

In good faith, Iran receives US President Barack Obama’s conciliatory message to the Iranian people but the country feels that any reconciliation needs ‘a concrete step forward.’ This is according to Ali Akbar Javanfaker, one of the closest advisers to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Javanfaker said, “We receive the message in good faith, [...]