Iran Dossier Press Coverage
- 29 Jan 2009 - - Fox News - Gary Samore Tapped for Weapons of Mass Destruction 'Czar'
Prior to his job at the Council on Foreign Relations, he was Director of Studies and Senior Fellow for Non-Proliferation at the International institute for Strategic Studies in Britain. His main responsibilities included directing the think tank's program called "Fostering an International Consensus on Fighting the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)", which the IISS says seeks to "strengthen transatlantic cooperation and promote coordinated responses to threats posed by the proliferation of nucle
- 29 Jan 2009 - - ABC News - New White House WMD Czar Wants Immediate Talks with Iran, to 'Manage' North Korea Until it Collapses
Samore served as Special Assistant to President Bill Clinton and Senior Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls on the National Security Council from 1996-2001 and has been focused on non-proliferation issues throughout his career. He recently served as editor of three International Institute for Strategic Studies "dossiers" on weapons programs in Iraq, North Korea, and Iran.
- Iran 'reaches key nuclear goal'
A recent International Institute for Strategic Studies report said if Iran could operate 3,000 centrifuges smoothly, one bomb could be produced within nine to 11 months.
- Iran's Bogus Bomb Threat
According to the "Iran Dossier" prepared by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 3,000 first-generation Iranian centrifuges operating perfectly for approximately one year could produce enough fissile material to fuel one nuclear bomb. That makes the Iranian announcement sound pretty scary. But it's far from clear that Iran can come anywhere close to perfection in operating its machines. David Albright recently estimated, based on data published by the International...
- Iranian nuclear issue putting region at risk
The outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war from 1980 to 1988 and the nuclear tests conducted by Pakistan and India in May 1998 pushed Iran to consider the ownership of nuclear weapons as an authorized capital for its national defense. The growing political problems in the Middle East, especially the existence of Israel nuclear capability has also increasingly pushed Iran to consider possessing nuclear weapons. The U.S. Ambassador for IAEA, Gregory L. Schulte estimates that Iran now has -- to quote the...
- Timeline: Iran Nuclear Crisis
Sept., 2005: A study by the International Institute for Strategic Studies concludes that Iran is still several years away from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability. Speaking before the U.N. General Assembly, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says his country has an "inalienable right" to produce nuclear fuel. The IAEA passes a resolution setting Iran up for referral to the U.N. Security Council at a later date, on the grounds of Tehran's non-compliance with international...
- Iran Declares Another Nuclear Advance
An operational reactor would put Iran among fewer than a dozen countries with heavywater technology. Among the other countries are the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China and Canada, India and Norway. The International Institute for Strategic Studies in London estimated that the heavy-water reactor, once up and running, would need a year to produce enough plutonium for a single "simple implosion...
- Iran calls the shots on nuclear tango with US
Historically, Washington has considered - but abandoned - plans to eliminate emerging nuclear programmes from the onset, be it in the former Soviet Union during the 1950s, China in the 1960s or North Korea in the 1990s.Despite its lack of options, however, analysts agree that Washington still has some time - possibly years - to mull over difficult options such as a strike.The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies estimates Iran will still need between three and five years...
