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The public discussion in the West addressing Iran’s nuclear program has mainly relied on threat diplomacy, articulated most clearly by Israeli officials, but enjoying the strong direct and indirect backing of Washington and leading Gulf states.  Israel has also engaged in covert warfare against Iran in recent years, somewhat supported by the United States, that has inflicted violent deaths on civilians in [...]

Some time ago I published an op-ed on the issue of WMD in the Middle East, and specifically the proposal to form a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region – that will most likely include provisi0ns to also cover biological and chemical weapons as well as their means of delivery. I titled the piece, ‘Hello Israel, might we talk about your nukes?’

Over on Lowy Institute’s The Interpreter blog, assistant editor Andrew Carr makes the rather dubious call for Australia to adopt “new thinking and new approaches” to anchoring its chief uranium export control with membership to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) – the international community’s most comprehensive nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation instrument.

There are 189 countries that are parties to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) that entered into force in 1970. Only India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea have remained outside the treaty regime so as to be free to acquire the weapons. The nuclear weapons states have done an incredibly successful job, especially the United States, in getting a free ride, [...]