Chinese estimates of the size of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal have increased in recent years, and are now higher than American estimates, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Wednesday. The latest Chinese estimates, relayed in a closed-door meeting with U.S. nuclear specialists, showed that North Korea may already have...

Warning that the Obama administration’s diplomacy with Iran is weakening friends and strengthening enemies, former State Department official Aaron David Miller observed Wednesday in a commentary written for CNN that in the battle for influence in the Middle East, the United States is being “outfoxed, not outgunned” by Iran. Miller contrasted Iran’s...

The United States government has known for “several years” that Iran’s breakout time—the amount of time required to produce enough fissile material for a nuclear bomb—is only two to three months, but only declassified the information recently, Eli Lake reported today for Bloomberg View. Lake noted that in 2013, when President...

Former Bush administration official Michael Doran asserted that a “coercive component” would be essential to convincing Iran to give up its nuclear program in an interview published today with Max Fisher of the online publication Vox. When asked by Fisher if the goal of preventing Iran from developing a nuclear...

The “loss of moral self-confidence” exemplified by the United States in its nuclear negotiations with Iran “threatens not only the United States and Israel but also the people of Iran and a growing number of others living under Tehran’s increasingly emboldened rule,” former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky wrote Friday in...

The Obama administration is looking to provide Iran with up to $50 billion in sanctions relief upon the signing of a nuclear deal, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Friday. The Obama administration estimates Iran has between $100 billion and $140 billion of its oil revenue frozen in offshore accounts as a...