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9:31 AM, Apr 5, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERSteve Hayes, with Mara Liasson and Charles Krauthammer, last night on Fox News:
Read more... 4:08 PM, Apr 3, 2012 • By THOMAS DONNELLYJane Perlez’s and William Wan’s articles in today’s papers (the New York Times and Washington Post, respectively) stand as a minor but important milestone in elite understanding of international relations in the 21st century.
Read more... 4:29 PM, Mar 20, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERThe New York Times reports that "A classified war simulation held this month to assess the repercussions of an Israeli attack on Iran forecasts that the strike would lead to a wider regional war, which could draw in the United States and leave hundreds of Americans dead, according to American officials."
Read more... 3:15 PM, Mar 20, 2012 • By THOMAS JOSCELYNThe 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear weapons program lives on in the imagination of some government officials. At the end of a lengthy piece by James Risen in the New York Times this past weekend an anonymous official claims: “That assessment holds up really well.”
No, it does not.
Read more... 9:29 AM, Mar 14, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERSteve Hayes, with A.B. Stoddard and Charles Krauthammer, last night on Fox News:
Read more... 12:12 PM, Mar 13, 2012 • By LEE HARRISIn an interview on CNN, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated that “we are of the opinion that Iran is a rational actor,” from which he derived his conclusion that “we also know, or we believe we know, that Iran has not decided to make a nuclear weapon.”
Read more... 2:14 PM, Mar 9, 2012 • By ROBERT ZARATEAs Washington wrangles over the size of the federal budget in a time of fiscal austerity, Congress is debating whether to hold President Obama to his promise of adequately funding the modernization of America’s nuclear arsenal and infrastructure in exchange for the Senate’s passage of the controversial New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the Russia in December 2010. The debate has pit liberal lawmakers like Congressman Edward Markey (D, Mass.), who advocate global nuclear disarmament, against Congressman Michael Turner (R, Ohio) and other national security stalwarts, w
Read more... 6:24 PM, Mar 8, 2012 • By ROBERT ZARATEIn a Politico op-ed today, Congressman Michael Turner (R, Ohio) criticizes the Obama administration’s lack of transparency on its controversial study of future reductions to America’s nuclear deterrent—including one option that would cut the arsenal by 80 percent, down to as few as 300 deployed strategic nuclear warheads.
Read more... 3:29 PM, Mar 7, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERJosh Rogin reports on the debate over whether the U.S. should intervene in Syria, where strongman Bashar al-Assad is killing and torturing his own citizens. Rogin discusses the views of Senators John McCain and Carl Levin, and then writes this:
Read more... 12:29 AM, Mar 6, 2012 • By WILLIAM KRISTOLMonday night, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said simply and clearly, "When it comes to Israel's survival, we must always remain the masters of our fate."
Read more... 6:15 PM, Mar 4, 2012 • By ELLIOTT ABRAMSPresident Obama’s speech this morning to the AIPAC Policy Conference put the best spin possible on his record, and he had a good story to tell.
Read more... Just how dangerous are low doses of radiation? Mar 12, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 25 • By TOM BETHELL
After Japan’s tsunami a year ago, about 20,000 people either drowned or were lost along the country’s northeastern coast. The same tidal wave overwhelmed nuclear reactors at Fukushima Daiichi. But no ill-health effects from radiation have been reported to date.
Read more... 3:00 PM, Mar 2, 2012 • By MICHAEL MAKOVSKY AND BLAISE MISZTALAs President Barack Obama is set to address the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Sunday, policymakers around the world will be paying close attention to how he phrases his administration’s policy toward Iran’s nuclear development.
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