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IAEA safeguard inspectors (middle left and far right) with their Iranian counterparts at the Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant in 2014. New high-tech devices, such as online uranium enrichment monitors, could help to continuously monitor Iran’s activities around the clock. Photo courtesy of V. Fournier/IAEA.

Iran nuclear crisis II

By Kaveh L. Afrasiabi | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, The Iranian problem

Will anti-money laundering reform in Iran matter?

By Aaron Arnold | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

UN/IAEA inspectors examine suspect equipment in Iraq following the 1991 Gulf War. Photo Credit: IAEA Action Team

How the IAEA verifies if a country’s nuclear program is peaceful or not: The legal basis

By Laura Rockwood | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

What is the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA)?

Where does Trump get the power to reimpose sanctions?

By Aaron Arnold | Analysis

President Trump signs an Executive Order on Iran sanctions on August 5, 2018.

Will Iran go nuclear over reimposed sanctions?

By Ezra Friedman | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Voices of Tomorrow

Time for a nuclear pause agreement?

By Adam M. Scheinman | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Launch of a missile defense interceptor from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California.

US Ground-based midcourse missile defense: Expensive and unreliable

By Laura Grego | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear Roundup: 4/4/2018

By Jodi Lieberman | Nuclear Roundup

Through a fractured looking-glass: Trump’s nuclear decisions so far

By Sharon Squassoni | Nuclear Weapons

Noam Chomsky: In the Trump era, severe threats to “organized human life”

By Lucien Crowder | Climate Change, Nuclear Weapons

How Iran’s hybrid-war tactics help and hurt it

By Melissa G. Dalton | Special Topics, Technology and Security

China’s proper role in the global nuclear order – A Chinese response

By Hua Han | Uncategorized