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05 Nov 09

Obama Seizing The Moment? - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

  • Scott Lucas guides us through the president's statement on 13 Aban:



    At first glance, it is extremely clever: Obama turns the history of
    the 1979 Embassy takeover into his desire to “move beyond this past and
    seek a relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran based upon mutual
    interests and mutual respect”.



    Obama then moves to the current nuclear talks — “if Iran lives up to
    the obligations that every nation has, it will have a path to a more
    prosperous and productive relationship with the international
    community” — but it is his shift to the situation inside Iran that is
    most significant. Having already declared, “We do not interfere in
    Iran’s internal affairs,” he concludes:










    Iran must choose. We have heard for thirty years what
    the Iranian government is against; the question, now, is what kind of
    future it is for. The American people have great respect for the people
    of Iran and their rich history. The world continues to bear witness to
    their powerful calls for justice, and their courageous pursuit of
    universal rights. It is time for the Iranian government to decide
    whether it wants to focus on the past, or whether it will make the
    choices that will open the door to greater opportunity, prosperity, and
    justice for its people.





    To my knowledge, this is the first direct comment by a high-level US
    official, let alone Obama, on Iran’s political situation since June.

30 Oct 09

'Alternative energy peace corps' on the way | The Cable

  • "This bill will create an alternative energy Peace Corps, as called for 31 years ago by the Nuclear Nonproliferation Act of 1978," former senators Bob Graham and Jim Talent, the chairs of the WMD commission, testified before the Senate Homeland Security committee last month, "As our report recommended, this bill would help reduce the further spread of nuclear technologies ostensibly for civilian purposes."
  • The energy development legislation has widespread support in Congress and the nonproliferation community. Congressman Jeff Fortenberry, R-NE, has a companion measure in the House.
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24 Oct 09

Bomb hits outside suspected Pakistani nuclear-weapons site | McClatchy

  • Increasingly daring and sophisticated attacks by terrorists allied with al Qaida on some of Pakistan’s most sensitive and best-protected installations have led to warnings that extremists could damage a nuclear facility or seize nuclear material.

Shocker for conservatives: Obama may not hate the Constitution - War Room - Salon.com

  • [T]he Constitution allows for many things, but what it does not allow is the most revealing. The so-called Founders did not allow for economic freedom. While political freedom is supposedly a cornerstone of the document, the distribution of wealth is not even mentioned. While many believed that the new Constitution gave them liberty, it instead fitted them with the shackles of hypocrisy.
  • As a bit of basic research would have shown Limbaugh, Obama didn't technically write a thesis at Columbia -- at the time, Columbia didn't really have senior theses -- though he did write a thesis-length paper. But it was on Soviet nuclear disarmament, not the Constitution.
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23 Oct 09

New German government wants U.S. nukes out | FP Passport

  • we will strive within (NATO) and with our American allies for a withdrawal of the last U.S. nuclear weapons from Germany.' 

    An estimated 20 nuclear bombs are still based in Germany, a holdover from the United States' Cold War deterrence strategy. 

22 Oct 09

Clinton's overshadowed nonproliferation speech | The Cable

  • On
    North Korea:
  • On
    Iran:
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IAEA's man in DC: No 'secret annex' on Iran | The Cable

  • Andrew Semmel,
    the IAEA's man in DC, told a group of congressional staffers
    Monday that he pressed IAEA leadership for answers on the "secret annex" at the
    general conference in Vienna last month.
  • "What they're telling me is that of course there's
    background material ... that you have to produce a report and that report can't
    include everything that's been collected and surmised, so the report itself is
    a distillation of all that background information."



    IAEA leaders decided they weren't confident in the
    authenticity of the information contained in the extra document, and they
    couldn't verify what that research had found.

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03 Oct 09

Informed Comment: The Most Dangerous Nuclear Facility in the Middle East

  • There is a secret nuclear facility in the Middle East, however, producing plutonium and not just enriched uranium, which has the capacity to make 10 nuclear warheads a year.
  • It is Israel's ongoing nuclear weapon production that drives the nuclear arms race in the Middle East. Saddam wanted a bomb because Israel had one. The Iranians were then worried both about an Iraqi and an Israeli bomb. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and others are annoyed at their geostrategic helplessness in the face of Israeli nukes.

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

  • [T]he fuel that France and Russia will send back to Iran will be far more weapons-usable
  • Michael Roston sighs:
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20 Sep 09

IAEA demands to inspect Israeli nukes | FP Passport

  • Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
  • place all atomic sites
    under UN inspections
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