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...since Washington confronted Pyongyang with evidence indicating that it was secretly working on a new nuclear weapons program. Since then, North Korea has pulled out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, kicked out inspectors from the watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency, and boasted openly about refashioning used reactor fuel into bombs. Today, with perhaps as many as eight nuclear devices in the North Korean arsenal, the clock is ticking?the U.S. has said it cannot tolerate a nuclear-tipped North Korea, but it has failed to shut down the bomb factories. At some point the U.S. Administration will have to consider...
...just may do so. IRAN Despite Western jitters about Iran getting nukes, there's a strong consensus in Tehran to proceed with nuclear enrichment; the Iranians say it's for peaceful purposes, but the Americans and Europeans worry that the material could be used to develop a bomb. European diplomats have been angered by evidence of Iranian nuclear cheating after previous deals, and Bush aides have been waiting for the election to step up pressure. Nevertheless, U.N. sanctions may founder on a veto by China. If the U.S. threatens unilateral steps, Iranian agents can easily make life harder...
...country's new President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is taking over at a particularly difficult juncture. Terrorism is a constant threat. Among Asia's major developing economies, Indonesia's is growing the slowest. Recent years have witnessed a net outflow of foreign capital, frightened off not just by bomb blasts but corruption, red tape and a capricious legal system. The authorities have yet to resolve the stubborn separatist insurgency in the province of Aceh, and clashes between Muslims and Christians erupt periodically. When Yudhoyono, a 55-year-old ex-general, met with Time's Simon Elegant and Jason Tedjasukmana last week...
Harvard seemed to be waiting for something to click into place, like an 80-yard Dawson run or as a long Fitzpatrick-to-Edwards bomb...
Paul Nitze's NSC-68 was a rigorous reaction to a perceived crisis. Communists had taken over Czechoslovakia in 1948 and China in 1949; the Soviets had exploded a nuclear bomb in 1949. NSC-68 was assembled over the winter of 1949-50, and it was a careful, comprehensive document, describing the precise nature of the threat and suggesting specific military, political and economic responses. "If there is similar thinking going on now with regard to Islamist terrorism, I am not aware of it," an intelligence expert told me. The Iraq-addled Bush White House has issued no marching orders...