Morning News Round-Up
Posted by K.E. White on December 23, 2009
- John Bolton slams the White House’s Iran policy, and offers this ‘optimistic’ prognostication:
Well, I’ll just underline the reason to be alarmist. If the rest of the world sees that North Korea can keep its nuclear weapons, they see that Iran is capable of defying United States and getting nuclear weapons, they see Hugo Chavez still completely unplugged and growing closer and closer to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Iran — let’s not forget Venezuela has its own uranium deposits — then the lesson, I think, for would-be proliferators around the world is clear. You can get nuclear weapons, and the United States and others will not act to stop you.
And if those constraints don’t have any force, then I think we’re going to see a lot more countries with nuclear weapons, and I think that raises the risk of global instability by an enormous factor.
- 2010: The Disarming Year? Seems so for the United States and Russia, but what about North Korea?
- Nuclear shaman (or alarmist?) Alison Graham reminds us that no bail-out can avert nuclear disaster. (The Boston Globe offers this summary)
- The Arab League supports a peaceful Iranian nuclear program.
- Foreign Policy pokes fun at Richard Perle with help from Smokey the Bear
- Book of note: A Fiery Peace in the Cold War by Neil Sheehan peers into how we got the long-range missile.
