“This has become a contest of wills.” “Much of the Iranian challenge results from responses to what it sees as the strategically hostile environment created by the United States and her allies.”
Turkey
Iran Update: Number 147
- Iran-P5+1 negotiations likely within next few weeks
- IAEA releases new report as Iran clashes with IAEA, questions neutrality
- Iran experiencing more problems with centrifuges
- International sanctions regim
NATO’s new Strategic Concept and the future of tactical nuclear weapons
NATO can and should reduce its reliance on nuclear weapons. First, President Obama with his April 2009 Prague speech has changed the way in which nuclear deterrence is discussed in many NATO member states.
October 2010
October 2010 for BASIC
Iran Update: Number 146
- IAEA continues its plea for more information
- Dialogue remains at standstill but resumption of talks possible in late autumn
- United States continues to lead international sanctions drive
- Iran suffers cybe
Leading Experts on NATO’s Nuclear Policy and Turkish Security [JTW Interview]
“The threat perceptions of Turkey and the other NATO alliances are overlapped to some extent but not completely……. That's where the real debate inside NATO comes from; it's from differing threat perceptions.”
Dr Ian Kearns, BASIC's Research Director was interviewed after the roundtable along with other particpants.
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“NATO’s Deterrence Posture & Turkish Security” Seminar Held at USAK
This roundtable meeting, jointly organized by the Arms Control Association, the British American Security Information Council, the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy Hamburg, International Strategic Research Organization, aimed to evaluate the role that deterrence and nuclear weapons play in Turkey's security policy and NATO's defense posture.
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Iran Update: Number 145
- Iran reported to be feeling effects of recently-imposed international sanctions
- Energy business with Iran continues despite sanctions
- Nuclear talks still possibility for Autumn
- Military threat
- Bushehr nuc