Iran Special Weapons - References

Testimony

Iran’s Continuing Pursuit of Weapons of Mass Destruction Testimony by Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John R. Bolton to the House International Relations CommitteeSubcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia 24 June 2004

Reports

National Intelligence Estimate: Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities Office of the Director of National Intelligence November 2007, Released 03 Dec 2007 [PDF Version]
Recognizing Iran as a Strategic Threat: An Intelligence Challenge for the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on Intelligence Policy Released 23 Aug 2006 -- "This report provides an unclassified assessment of the Iran question to help the American public understand the seriousness of the Iranian threat and to discuss ways U.S. intelligence collection and analysis against Iran must be improved."
CHECKING IRAN'S NUCLEAR AMBITIONS Henry Sokolski and Patrick Clawson - January 2004 Army War College ’s Strategic Studies Institute. This book is the result of nearly 2 years of planning and analyses commissioned by the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC)to reconsider U.S. efforts to arrest Iran ’s nuclear weapons ambitions.
Iran’s Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction -- Implications of US Policy Anthony C. Cain, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF -- Air War College Maxwell Paper No. 26 MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, ALABAMA April 2002
Iran and the Arabian Gulf: Threat Assessment and Response Mark S. Haskins; Clinton K. Holmes (Faculty Advisor) Air Command and Staff College 1998
Foreign Assistance to Iran's Nuclear and Missile Programs by Mark Gorwitz - October 1998
Rogue or Rational State?: A Nuclear Armed Iran and US Counterproliferation Strategy Richard M. Perry; Matthew R. Schwonek (Faculty Advisor) Air Command and Staff College 1997 -- Are the mad mullahs in charge driving Iran toward a course of global terrorism with an "Islamic Bomb"? Or, is the nuclear course within Iran a well thought out process, carefully calculated to maximize strategic leverage in order to gain and maintain regional hegemony?
Iran: Headed for a National Deterrent? Exploring U.S. Missile Defense Requirements in 2010: What Are the Policy and Technology Challenges? Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis April 1997
PROLIFERATION: THREAT AND RESPONSE - 1997
Iran and Iraq: A Prediction for Future Conflict Francis V. Xavier Air Command and Staff College 1997

Links

Iran's Nuclear Programme @ ArmsControlWonk
Iran Watch Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control -- Repository of open source information about Iran’s suspected mass destruction weapon programs
The Internal Debate in Iran: How to Respond to Western Pressure Regarding Its Nuclear Program By Ayelet Savyon* MEMRI Inquiry and Analysis Series June 17, 2004 No.181 - In response to increasing international pressure on Iran on the matter of its nuclear program, two major approaches are emerging in the Iranian media regarding the question of how to repel the Western threat to Iran's nuclear activities.
Plan B: Using Sanctions to End Iran's Nuclear Program George Perkovich and Silvia Manzanero, Arms Control Today, Volume 34, issue 4, May 2004 If Iran fails to address existing concerns over its nuclear activities and is found in noncompliance, the international community will be compelled to respond.
Dealing with Iran's Nuclear Challenge 27 April 2004 - This Carnegie Paper by George Perkovich addresses the current challenges presented by Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons and explores possible steps the United States might take to address this crisis. If US officials were willing and able to undertake bold innovations in US policy, Iran could be persuaded to reverse course.
The centrifuge connection By David Albright & Corey Hinderstein Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists March/April 2004, Volume 60, No. 2, pp. 61-66
TOWARDS A NON DISCRIMINATORY NUCLEAR DIPLOMACY VERSUS IRAN: SOME HINTS by Maurizio Martellini, University of Insubria and Landau Network-Centro Volta (LNCV), Como, Italy and BCSIA-Harvard University, Cambridge MA, US and Riccardo Redaelli, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Milano, Italy, Landau Network-Centro Volta (LNCV) Como, Italy - August 8, 2003
Debating Iran’s Nuclear Aspirations Shahram Chubin and Robert S. Litwak The Washington Quarterly, Autumn 2003, Iran prefers first and foremost,” Cubin says, “to work towards what is defined as a ‘nuclear option’—attaining all the required materials and technology, which will enable it, if it wishes to do so, to reach the stage of producing nuclear weapons within a very short time.”
Iranian Nuclear Fuel Cycle Experience M.Ghannadi-Maragheh, World Nuclear Association Annual Symposium - 3-5 September 2003 - London
Officials say Israel will destroy Natanz plant if Iran operates it Mark Hibbs Nucleonics Week, July 3, 2003
NPEC releases analysis of Iran's Atomic Bomb Making Capabilities May 15, 2003
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Dr. M. Ghannadi-Maragheh, World Nuclear Association Annual Symposium 4-6 September 2002 - London
Iran's Burgeoning WMD Programs by Michael Rubin Middle East Intelligence Bulletin (MEIB) (March/April 2002)
Former Iranian President Rafsanjani on Using a Nuclear Bomb Against Israel Special Dispatch Series - No. 325 - Iran, January 3, 2002
C.I.A. Says an Iranian A-Bomb Can't Be Ruled Out By JAMES RISEN WITH JUDITH MILLER The New York Times (17 January 2000)
IRAN Tracking Nuclear Proliferation, 1998 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Iran's Nuclear Facilities: a Profile by Andrew Koch and Jeanette Wolf 1998 by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies
An Iranian bomb? by DAVID ALBRIGHT Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - July/August 1995
AN ASSESSMENT OF IRAN'S NUCLEAR FACILITIES by Greg J. Gerardi and Maryam Aharinejad The Nonproliferation Review: Spring-Summer 1995, Volume 2 - Number 3
Iran's Nuclear Program: Myth and Reality by Kenneth R. Timmerman USPID - atti del VI convegno di Castiglioncello [1995]
Israeli Report on Nuclear Targeting Priorities JPRS-TAC-95-004-L - 13 January 1995
NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION: Spotlight shifts to Iran DAVID ALBRIGHT and MARK HIBBSBulletin of the Atomic Scientists March 1992
AIPAC [American Israel Public Affairs Committee] Iran: A Future Nuclear Power?
IRANIAN-RUSSIAN NUCLEAR TRADE - CASE NUMBER: 163 Trade Environment Database [TED] School of International Service at American University
THE ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF IRANIAN-RUSSIAN NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY TRADE
THE PROLIFERATION OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION USCENTCOM

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