Nuclear Weapons

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  • Rethinking Israel's David-and-Goliath past

    Little-noticed details in declassified U.S. documents indicate that Israel's Six-Day War may not have been a war of necessity.
    By Sandy Tolan June 4, 2007

  • The tortuous road to Tehran

    From Cheney's bellicosity to Rice's coy diplomacy, the U.S. approach to Iran has seemed schizophrenic -- and may have unexpected consequences.
    By Hooman Majd May 21, 2007

  • The view from Tehran

    Iranians are fed up with the high price of tomatoes and their provocative president. But it would be dangerous for Bush and the West to overlook their national pride.
    By Hooman Majd February 21, 2007

  • Israel's surge of despair

    Top Israeli officials admit last summer's war against Hezbollah was a failure -- and denounce President Bush's actions in the Middle East.
    By Gregory Levey February 15, 2007

  • Conservatives: Who cares if we teach terrorists how to build nukes?

    A U.S. document dump online was supposed to help prove Saddam had WMD. Instead, it published bomb-making details to the world.
    By Scott Rosenberg November 3, 2006

  • North Korea fallout

    Kim Jong Il's nuclear test could set off a new arms race in Asia. Yet the White House has no viable plan for stopping the global spread of nukes.
    By Joseph Cirincione October 10, 2006

  • "We don't want to confirm or deny the Holocaust"

    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad talks about Israel, his letter to Bush and Iran's nuclear ambitions.
    By Stefan Aust, Gerhard Spörl and Dieter Bednarz May 30, 2006

  • Attacking Iran: Are they nuts?

    If the U.S. attacked Iran, the consequences would be catastrophic -- including a possible American retreat under fire in Iraq.
    By Joe Conason April 21, 2006

  • Bush's bluster

    What good are U.S. threats against Iran when the whole world has lost its trust in our government?
    By Joe Conason April 14, 2006

  • The revolution will be blogged

    Ignoring the mullahs, Iranian youth are speaking out about everything from Danish-cartoon mobs to nukes to their sex lives.
    By Sean Kenny March 6, 2006

  • Countdown to the Iranian bomb

    A top proliferation expert says the real danger isn't a nuclear attack by Iran, but a Middle East arms race.
    By Tracy Clark-Flory January 26, 2006

  • Imagining a world without nuclear weapons

    Historian Richard Rhodes talks about the atomic bombing of Japan 60 years ago, today's global arms race -- and the only way to stop a nuclear attack by terrorists.
    By Charles Hawley August 6, 2005

  • How they learned to love the bomb

    Bush is talking tough about nukes in Iran and North Korea. But critics say by illegally testing and building nuclear weapons, the U.S. is fueling a new arms race.
    By Leigh Flayton March 29, 2005

  • A widening pool of nuclear worries

    According to a classified report, storage pools containing spent-fuel rods from the nation's 103 electricity-generating nuclear reactors are vulnerable to terrorist attacks.
    By Page Rockwell March 29, 2005

  • Spooked about terrorists on the inside

    U.S. counterintelligence officials are worried that al-Qaida operatives have infiltrated the nation's spy agencies.
    By Mark Follman March 9, 2005

  • Right Hook

    Terrorism expert says Bush's reelection gave bin Laden a "kosher stamp from the Islamic world" to use nukes on U.S. -- and a major attack is "inevitable." Plus: A karate champion says CIA must play dirty.
    By Mark Follman December 1, 2004

  • Right Hook

    Is Iran next? Pundits are long on hawkish bluster, but short on a plan. Plus: Even Bill O'Reilly blasts Swift Boat Vets' "bitter personal attacks" on John Kerry -- and defends Kerry's war record.
    By Mark Follman August 18, 2004

  • Are we safer now?

    The war on Saddam has made the U.S. less secure, say foreign-policy experts.
    By Eric Boehlert July 31, 2003

  • Bush's biggest whopper

    The president's 16-word stretcher about African uranium was nothing compared to his lie about the links between Osama and Saddam.
    By David Corn July 24, 2003

  • Is Iran next?

    Tehran is a year or two away from acquiring nuclear weapons. Is the Bush administration willing to go to war -- again -- to stop it?
    By Mark Follman July 10, 2003

  • Joe Conason's Journal

    Most Americans no longer care whether weapons of mass destruction are found in Iraq. But to the rest of the world, the issue remains crucial.
    April 7, 2003

  • The menace and mystery of North Korea

    The government of Kim Jong Il is threatening to build more nuclear bombs, and its rhetoric is growing ever more impatient. The problem is that nobody knows what Kim really wants.
    By Eric Boehlert January 14, 2003

  • Understanding Kim Jong Il

    He likes fast cars and fast women, he's been implicated in murder and terrorism, and now he's got nuclear weapons. But dismissing the North Korean dictator as crazy plays into his hands.
    By Laura McClure January 10, 2003

  • Bush's illogical foreign policy

    The nuclear threat from North Korea reveals the limits of the Bush administration's preemption doctrine.
    By Robert Scheer January 2, 2003

  • Wolf in sheep's clothing

    Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz was in San Francisco to indict Saddam Hussein. But despite growing impatience, he provided no evidence.
    By Edward W. Lempinen December 7, 2002
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