The Aspen Institute of Germany asked NPEC’s Executive Director to assess what the U.S. and its allies could have done better in their efforts to block Iran’s development of a nuclear weapons option at the Institute’s Strategy Forum. Sep 22, 2010 AUTHOR: Henry Sokolski Ten...

Richard L. Russell details the growing nuclear aspirations of a number of Middle Eastern states in a National Defense University’s Joint Forces Quarterly article that reflects research he did for NPEC. Jun 28, 2010 AUTHOR: Richard L. Russell Off and Running-The Middle East Nuclear Arms...

In a new analysis for NPEC, Greg Jones examines recent estimates from the Defense Intelligence Agency that Iran is 3 to 5 years from getting a bomb and concludes that despite these optimistic U.S. predictions, Tehran has the capacity to enrich enough uranium for a...

NPEC releases new analysis by Greg Jones on Iran’s uranium enrichment program after the IAEA’s latest assessment was released February 18th and finds that Tehran could have the a bomb’s worth of material by the end of 2010. Feb 23, 2010 AUTHOR: Greg Jones Irans...

Reuters reported on November 12th that Iran has 1,700 to 1,800 kilograms of low enriched uranium (LEU) – enough to make one to two bombs, and the IAEA released a report on November 16th in the wake of its inspection of Iran’s new enrichment facility....

NPEC releases new technical analysis of how Iran might exploit the October 1, 2009 offer of 19.75 fuel to make a bomb, in a new paper by Gregory Jones: “Fueling Tehran’s Research Reactor”, which complements his earlier analysis from September 15th which examined how quickly...

Prepared for NPEC by Richard L. Russell, a Professor of National Security Affairs at the National Defense University’s Near East and South Asia Center for Strategic Studies and Adjunct Professor of Security Studies at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Jul 01,...