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Opinion: START Won't Stop Nuclear Proliferation

(Dec. 10) -- Immediately following last month's election, President Barack Obama renewed his call on the Senate to ratify the New START treaty with Russia in order to "send a signal to the world that we're serious about nonproliferation." The claim that progress in U.S.-Russian arms control will help stop countries like...

Opinion: WikiLeaks' Silver Lining

(Nov. 29) -- While the Obama administration is understandably furious and embarrassed by a massive leak of confidential diplomatic cables, the latest WikiLeaks data dump could actually have a silver lining when it comes to Iran and Israel. Harsh comments against the Tehran government by Arab leaders -- including apparent...

Report: Iranian Scientist Says He's Escaped US Agents

(June 30) -- Iranian state television has broadcast a video of a man who purports to be an abducted Iranian nuclear scientist, and he now claims that he has escaped from U.S. custody. Shahram Amiri -- an expert in radioactive isotopes at Tehran's Malek Ashtar University, which has close ties to the Revolutionary Guard --...

Opinion: Reset Brings Benefits to US and Russia

(June 23) -- When Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sits down in the Oval Office Thursday with President Barack Obama, the two leaders should be allowed a moment of self-congratulation. U.S.-Russia relations are on an upswing more than a year after Obama pushed the "reset" button on what had become a very tense...

UN Security Council OKs New Sanctions on Iran

UNITED NATIONS (June 9) -- After a yearlong diplomatic duel crowned with final weeks of creative arm-twisting, the United Nations agreed to a fourth round of sanctions aimed at punishing Iran for its suspect nuclear program. As anticipated, the newly calibrated sanctions regime garnered 12 of 15 votes on the Security...