Weapons watch

Article Abstract:

Iran is the world's greatest nuclear weapons challenge proliferation threat that would require international consensus on a firm strategy to change Tehran's calculations of the cost and benefits. Further, the beginning of the UN Security Resolution 1540 of April 2004 requires effective legal and regulatory measures to prevent proliferation as it provides a framework for action in multilateral UN context that should make countries more willing to take the difficult steps needed.

Analysis, Usage, Political aspects, Iranian foreign relations

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Iran and the Traffickers

Article Abstract:

Iran has recently acknowledged its reliance on illicit trafficking to acquire number of technologies applicable to a nuclear weapons programme. The former secretary of Iran's National Security Council and cleric, Hassan Rohani, admitted in 2005 that the black market was among the sources used to gain access to nuclear fuel cycle technology since 1987, with renewed intensified effort from March 1999.

Facilities & equipment, Guided Missiles, Space Vehicles, Parts, Equipment and supplies, Technology application, Military aspects, Defense industry, Defence industry

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The decision that dares not speak its name

Article Abstract:

The British government would need to take important military and foreign policy decision on whether and how to replace the strategic nuclear 'deterrent' in a world where deterrence might not work. The Ministry of Defense has four Vanguard class nuclear powered missile-firing submarines, each with sixteen missile tubes.

United Kingdom, Management dynamics, Management, Company business management, Deterrence (Strategy), Foreign policy, Nuclear deterrence

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