Dmitri Alperovitch (@DAlperovitch) talks about nuclear nonproliferation with Jeffrey Lewis (@ArmsControlWonk), Director of East Asia Nonproliferation Project at the Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey.
Topics discussed include:
- What is the latest status of the Iran nuclear deal negotiations?
- What are the key objections to JCPOA?
- What does Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei truly want?
- Why has Iran already beaten all world records at the longest time to acquiring a nuclear bomb?
- How significant is the benefit of a nuclear weapons program to countries like Iran and North Korea?
- Did we forever miss the opportunity to contain nuclear proliferation in the 70s-90s with a lax enforcement regime?
- 16 years after North Korea first tested a nuclear device, is it time to acknowledge that North Korea is not going to give up its weapons and refocus our diplomatic strategy with them on more achievable objectives?
Follow the speakers on Twitter: @DAlperovitch and @ArmsControlWonk