Nation Topics - Nuclear Arms and Proliferation | The Nation

August 6 marks sixty-eight years since the United States committed what is arguably the single gravest act of terrorism that the world has ever known.

Is there any benefit to be found in an unbroken record of waste, futility and shame? Only if lessons learned prevent a catastrophe in Iran.

The Islamic Republic has survived for so long because its basic model is, according to numerous surveys, what a majority of Iranians actually want. 

What remains of the initial Obama drive to reach out to Iran with an “engagement that is honed and grounded in mutual respect”?

The one key way in which Romney's foreign policy differs from Obama's.

The United States and Pakistan have become the dysfunctional nuclear family of international relations.

Though the Cuban Missile Crisis was fifty years ago, imperial America and the threat of nuclear war remains. 

The president’s real agenda is to buy more time for sanctions to set the stage for regime change in Iran.

A war on Iran to stop its nuclear program would bring on a proliferation catastrophe.

Obama foiled Netanyahu’s attempt to browbeat Washington into war. But the White House needs a new strategic approach.