RussellRichardL.JFQ: Joint Force QuarterlyRichard L. Russell, "Off and Running: The Middle East Nuclear Arms Race," Joint Force Quarterly, no. 58 (3rd Quarter, July 2010): 95.
From this position, and given the extremely sensitive character of the Middle East region, the Syrian Arab Republic tries to keep the region free of a nuclear arms race MultiUn Another alarming trend last year was the growth of extremism and terrorism in the Middle East and North Africa. ...
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the friends of Israel and the Gulf Arabs to engage them more creatively on their legitimate security concerns — acknowledging the very real challenge of containing a regime in Tehran that is an enemy to its own people as well as to the world’s interest in avoiding a nuclear arms race. Th...
Ryder would not comment on what the U.S. may or may not do if Israel strikes nuclear or other key targets in Iran. He said Austin agrees with President Joe Biden in opposition to strikes on nuclear facilities in Iran. He said the U.S. continues to wor...
A Regional Arms Race? Testing the Nuclear Domino Theory in the Middle East In November 2011, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released a muchanticipated report on the Iranian nuclear program,1 highlighting the fact that Iran has made significant progress on research and development towa...
says the Russian plan is“doomed to fail.”I have been saying for years the Russians were not going to allow Assad to be removed from power. It has a strategic port on the Syrian coast in Tartus, and it has spent billions of dollars retrofitting it for nuclear armed ships and subs. ...
Like Israel’s nuclear stockpile, Saudi sponsorship of Wahabi-related retro Islamism has become an open secret, but the US, for reasons that make little sense now that we are no longer slavishly dependent on Saudi oil, refuses to confront the implications in the public arena. On the contrary...
Each player is therefore moved to defect, which presents a troubling dilemma indeed, since by doing so they each get the Punishment of mutual defection (a debilitating arms race, or, in today’s Middle East, repeated episodes of murder and mayhem), when the best mutual payoff by far would...
The United States amplified the threat of Iran and created uncertainty and potential confrontation in the Gulf even after the end of the Iran-Iraq War in 1988 — and, as a result, petrodollars had to be spent on US arms. When the United States signed the Iran nuclear agreement (the ...