America and Israel led global concerns over Iran’s nuclear program centered on its high-level uranium enrichment (up to 60%) and dwindling international oversight. While Iran claimed its program was peaceful, inspectors struggled to verify this, sparking fears of a swift breakout towards weaponization. The possibility of Iranian nuclear warheads, coupled with a very successful ballisticContinue reading “Three Rogue Nuclear States or Aspirants but Different American Standards”
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Continuous Air Strikes – Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program Only Partially Dented – Is Special Operations the Way Forward
The US and Israeli militaries are hammering Iran for over two weeks. There are two reported aims of the campaign, one to replace the hardliners and install a moderate regime, and second to neutralise the Iranian nuclear weapons program. While a large part of the Khomeini regime and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commanders haveContinue reading “Continuous Air Strikes – Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program Only Partially Dented – Is Special Operations the Way Forward”
The “Nuclear Umbrella” and Changing Nuclear Weapons Security Dynamics
An unreliable American nuclear umbrella means more countries want the nuclear bomb. For long, Europe and some other Asian countries were banking on US security guarantees. Ukraine had denounced nuclear weapons after the Soviet Union imploded, but after the Russian invasion of February 2022, and Russian threats to use a tactical nuclear weapon, Ukraine isContinue reading “The “Nuclear Umbrella” and Changing Nuclear Weapons Security Dynamics”
In a world of ‘might is right’: Could Japan, South Korea go nuclear?
Ukraine voluntarily renounced its vast Soviet-era nuclear arsenal after independence, transferring all nuclear warheads to Russia by 1996 in exchange for security assurances via the 1994 Budapest Memorandum from the US, UK, and Russia, but now deeply regrets this decision following Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and the 2022 invasion, which it calls broken promises.Continue reading “In a world of ‘might is right’: Could Japan, South Korea go nuclear?”