The New Nuclear Era
November 2006

November Article Abstracts

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Title: The End of the Nonproliferation Regime?
Author: George Perkovich
"The fundamental requirement today is to establish a basis of cooperation between the most powerful state-the United States-and the others, without which pressing proliferation problems cannot be solved."
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Title: The Lessons of North Korea's Test
Author: Leon V. Sigal
"Countries that seek nuclear weapons are insecure. Trying to isolate or coerce them can easily backfire."
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Title: Bringing Iran to the Bargaining Table
Author: Kenneth M. Pollack
"If the Iranian people were ever forced to choose between the nuclear program and their country's economic health, they likely would choose the latter."
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Title: The US-India Nuclear Pact: Bad for Security
Author: Gary Milhollin
"It is impossible to weaken export controls for India without weakening them for everyone else. The 'everyone else' includes Iran, Pakistan, and even terrorists. . . ."
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Title: The US-India Nuclear Pact: A Good Deal
Author: Dinshaw Mistry and Sumit Ganguly
"Stronger us-India strategic ties resulting from the pact would lessen India's need to greatly expand its nuclear arsenal and would bind Indian governments more firmly to norms against nuclear testing."
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Title: What If a Nuclear-Armed State Collapses?
Author: Michael O'Hanlon
"The nuclear danger posed by the potential for state failure in a North Korea or a Pakistan is one of the most menacing facing the international environment."
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Title: The New Threats: Nuclear Amnesia, Nuclear Legitimacy
Author: Jack Mendelsohn
"It will be up to the next us administration to remove nuclear arms from the quiver of threat responses and war-fighting scenarios and begin the process of delegitimizing nuclear weapons."
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Title: The Limits and Liabilities of Missile Defense
Author: Philip E. Coyle
"The most effective route in dealing with nuclear and missile proliferation threats may be through creative diplomacy, not military technology."
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Title: Deterrence or Preemption?
Author: Jeffrey W. Knopf
"Given reasonable prospects for successful deterrence and the variety of other policy tools that can be used . . . preemption generally does not appear to be the best choice in dealing with wmd threats."
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Title: The Month in Review
An international chronology of events in September, country by country, day by day.
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Title: Nuclear Weapons Proliferation
A map of the Nuclear Weapons Proliferation.
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