Word: nuclearization
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...insurgency is clearly an existential threat to the Pakistani government, which has been relatively cooperative with the U.S. to root out terrorists in the region. As such, given the critical security situation in Pakistan and the region as a whole—Islamabad also controls the only nuclear arsenal in the Muslim world—it is high time that the United States reconsider the nature of its alliance with the Islamic Republic...
...poor decision given the critical situation on the ground, it is important for the United States to reconsider its current policy of unconditional aid to the Pakistani government. In the 1980s, the George H.W. Bush administration wisely imposed arms-export controls on Islamabad, ending the export of nuclear-capable F-16 fighter jets when confronted with evidence of Pakistan’s underground nuclear program. These restraints were tightened on President Clinton’s watch when Pakistan exploded its first nuclear bomb in May 1998. But, after the Musharraf government’s post-9/11 about-face...
...South Asia and devise a comprehensive diplomatic agenda for the region that calls for the stabilization of Afghanistan and Pakistan, the eradication of the Taliban and the drug trade, and a positive role for India, a fellow democracy that has proven to be a reliable partner since the bilateral nuclear treaty of 2006. Only a comprehensive South Asian agenda that takes all of these complex variables into account has any chance of permanently resolving the core issues at stake...
...could be an attempt to send a positive signal to the U.S., in response to the olive branch President Barack Obama extended during the Persian New Year. Ahmadinejad's statement may be particularly important now, if seen as a prelude to next month's talks on Iran's nuclear program that will include U.S. diplomats for the first time. Breaking with the Bush Administration's open hostility to the "axis of evil" and seeking to improve relations severed after the Iranian revolution in 1979, Obama told the Iranian regime last month that the U.S. was seeking "engagement that is honest...
...days, when the Red Army's millions were spread across a vast swath of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. When the Soviet empire began collapsing in 1989, Russia lost the bulk of its foot soldiers, as well as several key defense-related industries, ranging from shipbuilding in Ukraine to nuclear enrichment in Kazakhstan, according to an analysis of Russia's military in February by Stratfor, a U.S. company. The upheaval also forced many of Russia's finest engineers to quit for better-paid jobs abroad. Defense factories across Russia lumbered through the 1990s, many of them barely seeing a splash...