Inside Pakistan's Drive To Guard Its A-Bombs But the U.S. has long had contingency plans in place under which American Special Forces operatives would deploy to Pakistan to secure nuclear-weapons sites in the event of an Islamic takeover. Some...
Iran and EU face tough nuclear talks "It is hard to imagine that Iran will really offer anything new and of value," said Mark Fitzpatrick, senior fellow for non-proliferation studies at London's International Institute for...
Killing four birds with one stone By Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow for Non-proliferation
Musharraf quits as army chief "All this is significant because it signals his serious understanding of what a predicament he's in," said Patrick Cronin, a South Asia analyst at the International Institute for Strategic...
Helicopter crunch hobbles peace missions "Without helicopters, nobody moves in that kind of terrain," said Andrew Brookes, defence analyst at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies...
Gates to head US team for Manama Dialogue Gates, who took office in December 2006, will talk about The US and the Regional Balance of Power at the first plenary session of the annual forum, which brings together ministers and senior...
Iran says has built new long-range missile Mark Fitzpatrick, a weapons expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, said the Ashoura was probably a longer range version of the Shahab-3 and said, since 2005, there had...
Half of Sea Harrier fleet gone in 20 years Replying to Kumar's application in September, the integrated headquarters of the defence ministry disclosed that, between 1988 and 2007, seven pilots had lost their lives in 16 accidents involving...
Scottish Office role 'fitted in' says Browne Within the NATO alliance, the top spending countries relative to GDP within NATO were the US, followed by Turkey, Germany, Greece, France, Bulgaria and then the UK, which spent 2.3 per cent of its...
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Gates will lead U.S. delegation to Manama U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates will lead the American delegation to the 4th annual Gulf regional security summit known as the Manama Dialogue.Delegations from 23 governments in the Gulf and...
Spinning on regardless Iran has pre-emptively dismissed such accusations as “baseless”, so is unlikely to be forthcoming. Nor does it show any sign of suspending either uranium enrichment at Natanz or the...
More than half of Afghanistan 'under Taliban' The Senlis Council made a name for itself by advocating that Afghan opium, which supplies 93 per cent of the world market, should be regulated and produced for medicinal purposes. The organisation...
Egypt: Russia agrees to provide know-how Cairo suspended a peaceful nuclear programme after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. The London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies said the first 1,000-megawatt reactor could be built...
Iran rations cooperation with IAEA "Some kind of deadline was necessary to persuade the West that Iran could not drag out answers forever," said Mark Fitzpatrick, senior non-proliferation fellow at London's International...
Experts united against Pakistan emergency Rahul Roy-Chaudhury, senior fellow for South Asia at the International Institute of Strategic Studies, termed the situation in Pakistan as "mind-boggling and very worrying" with...
A review of Nuclear Black Markets Nuclear Black Markets: Pakistan, A. Q. Khan and the Rise of Proliferation Networks, edited by Mark Fitzpatrick, a senior fellow at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies and...
As U.S. presses for more sanctions Mark Fitzpatrick, a nonproliferation expert at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies, said most of the world agrees that Iran shouldn't have nuclear weapons. "Diplomacy...
US Envoy to Press Musharraf Patrick Cronin, an analyst at the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London, said Washington still hoped to persuade Musharraf to end the emergency and allow free elections "so they...
North Korea’s nuclear threat Mark Fitzpatrick, director of the Nonproliferation Bureau of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, proposes enhancing the status of the PSI from the U.S.-led "coalition...