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June 6, 2007 | Somini Sengupta on the Fragile State of the U.S-India Nuclear Deal

The US-India nuclear deal might be at risk, argues Sengupta in an article for the World Security Network. The countries are particularly divided over two issues:

1. Granting India permission to carry out further nuclear tests and changing its status to a ‘nuclear weapons state’.
2. Reprocessing spent nuclear fuels. The US worries that spent fuel might be used for the production of

April 16, 2007 | John K. Cooley Calls For A Comprehensive US-Iranian Dialogue

Veteran Middle East reporter John K. Cooley suggests the US initiate a comprehensive, formal dialogue with Iran on the issues that have divided the two countries since Iran’s 1979 revolution. The minimum objective of this dialogue should be the halt of Iranian uranium enrichment and plutonium diversion for weapons production. A four-step peace plan—including cooperation in Afghanistan and Iraq