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October 29, 2015

The U.S. Needs to Stop Throwing Weapons at Problems

The survival of the Iran nuclear agreement in Congress sent countless members of Congress scrambling for new ways to demonstrate their opposition to the deal and to throw sand into the gears required to carry out the agreement. One of the more preposterous ideas put forward was to send Massive Ordnance Penetrators (or MOPs) to Israel. MOPs are essentially really, really big bombs that have the capacity to penetrate up to 200 feet into the ground.

Posted in: Israel, Middle East, Nukes of Hazard blog, Uncategorized

December 5, 2013

A Nuclear-Armed Iran: How Would Israel Respond?

In the last few years, one of the main topics of speculation regarding a potential weaponization of Iran’s nuclear program has been Israel’s likely response to an Iranian nuclear bomb.

Posted in: Iran Diplomacy, Israel, Middle East, Nuclear Weapons Free Zones, Nukes of Hazard blog, Treaties

April 28, 2013

Could a nuclear-armed Iran be contained?

Published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Online By Kingston Reif Article summary below; read the full text here. On September 4, 1962, President John F. Kennedy released a statement in response to intelligence reports of a Soviet arms buildup in Cuba. Kennedy said the United States did not have evidence “of the presence of […]

Posted in: Center in the News, Iran Diplomacy, Press & In the News on Iran Diplomacy

November 29, 2012

Why Iron Dome Can’t Be Scaled-Up

By Kingston Reif Published in Open Zion, a blog at The Daily Beast, on November 29, 2012. Article summary below; read the full text here. Iron Dome is all the rage. It has achieved other-worldly status in some defense circles due to reports that the system intercepted 80 to 90 percent of the rockets launched […]

Posted in: Middle East, Press & In the News on the Middle East

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