Twilight of the NPT? The US, Syria, Iran, North Korea and the Control of Nuclear Weapons

China Hand

The United States has pushed the international non-proliferation regime to the breaking point.

Anxiety over US attempts to define and direct the international non-proliferation regime may be provoking some dangerous decisions in the Middle East.

China Hand assesses US motives in undermining the nuclear proliferation regime in a wide-ranging discussion of the issues involving the Israeli bombing of Syria and the intertwined issues of US policy toward Iran and North Korea.

China Hand is the author of the Asian affairs website China Matters.
This article was written for Japan Focus and posted on May 9, 2008.

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