A time to attack
Subtitle: the looming Iranian nuclear threat
By: Matthew Kroenig
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781137279538
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Nuclear arms control; International Security; Nuclear weapons; Foreign relations; International cooperation; Nuclear nonproliferation; Military policy
Description: "Iran's rapidly advancing nuclear program may be the world's most important emerging international security challenge. Not only does Iran have confirmed nuclear capabilities, but the country also has the ability to supply them to other regimes--potentially an even greater, imminent global threat. In this dramatic call to action, Matt Kroenig explains why we need to take immediate steps to a diplomatic and, if necessary, a military solution--now--before Iran makes any further nuclear advances. He draws on the current crisis in Syria, an indicator of the devastating potential of just one nation's chemical capabilities. A Time to Attack provides an authoritative account of the history of Iran's nuclear program and the international community's attempts to stop it, explains and assesses the options available to policymakers, and reflects on what the resolution of the Iranian nuclear challenge will mean for the future of international order. As this crisis is still developing, this book provides an insider's account of what is being said in Washington about what our next move must be"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From atoms for peace to atoms for war; title: What does Iran want?; title: The nonstarters: covert ops, Japanese models, and Persian Springs; title: A deal with the devil: diplomacy and sanctions; title: Iran with the bomb; title: Bombing Iran; title: Which is worse?