AM Nukes Roundup – March 9 – U.S. weighs sending special forces to seize Iran's nuclear stockpile

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AM Nukes Roundup

March 9, 2026

  Top Six


U.S. weighs sending special forces to seize Iran's nuclear stockpile
Barak Ravid, Marc Caputo, Axios - March 7
Will the US attack on Iran push North Korea even closer to Russia and China?
Seong Hyeon Choi, South China Morning Post - March 7
Russia warns Finland it will be more vulnerable if it hosts nuclear weapons
Dmitry Antonov, Reuters - March 6
W.J. Hennigan, Massimo Calabresi: There Is One Crucial Reason We’re Talking About Boots on the Ground
OPINION: New York Times - March 7
Stephen Blank, Peter Huessy: What the Arms Control Community Gets Wrong About Arms Control
OPINION: RealClearDefense - March 6
Héloïse Fayet: France has a new nuclear doctrine of ‘forward deterrence’ for Europe. What does it mean?
OPINION: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - March 5
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  News Clips

 

KOREA


After Iran and Venezuela, Kim Jong Un must decide how to handle Trump
Will Ripley, CNN - March 7

Will the US attack on Iran push North Korea even closer to Russia and China?
Seong Hyeon Choi, South China Morning Post - March 7


IRAN


De Facto Wartime Leader Steers Iran’s Defiant Response to U.S.
Benoit Faucon, Wall Street Journal - March 8

On U.S. strikes against Iran, Pete Hegseth says, "this is only just the beginning"
Major Garrett, Arden Farhi, Andy Court, Andy Bast, CBS News - March 8

Sen. John Kennedy: Iran had taken ‘baby steps’ to restart nuclear program
Jacob Wendler, Politico - March 8

US Considers Idea of Special Operation to Seize Iran’s Uranium
Jonathan Tirone, Donato Paolo Mancini, Josh Wingrove, Bloomberg - March 8

‘The mother of all commando raids’: US forces may need to secure uranium in Iran, analysts say
John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes - March 8

Sen. Kennedy: Iran Took 'Baby Steps' to Restart Nuclear Program
Sam Barron, Newsmax - March 8

Report: Trump Weighing Special Ops Raid to Secure Iran’s Enriched Uranium Stockpile
Joshua Klein, Breitbart - March 8

Iran Could Retrieve Uranium at Site U.S. Bombed Last Year, Officials Say
Julian Barnes, Tyler Pager, Christiaan Triebert, Eric Schmitt, Ronen Bergman, New York Times - March 7

What the U.S. and Israel Have Targeted in Their Iran Blitz
Adam Goldman, Samuel Granados, Ronen Bergman, Eric Schmitt, New York Times - March 7

Why is the U.S. at war with Iran? Here’s what the Trump administration says.
Matthew Hay Brown, Washington Post - March 7

Why are we at war with Iran? Trump has given many different reasons
Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY - March 7

What the Trump administration says about why it went to war with Iran
Franco Ordoñez, NPR - March 7

U.S. weighs sending special forces to seize Iran's nuclear stockpile
Barak Ravid, Marc Caputo, Axios - March 7

Trump’s Iran options include special operations raid on nuclear sites
Shelby Talcott, Semafor - March 7

Shrinking weapon stockpiles and regime-change uncertainty: doubts shadow US-Israel war on Iran
José Olivares, The Guardian - March 7

Race on to secure ‘loose nukes’ that could get smuggled from bombed-out Iran
Geoff Earle, New York Post - March 7

Six Days of War, 10 Rationales
Marie-Rose Sheinerman, Isabel Ruehl, The Atlantic - March 6

While UN Issues mixed signals, Witkoff exposes Iran's nuclear evasion ‘pride’
Beth Bailey, Fox News - March 6

Wilkie to Newsmax: Iran Boasts Stepped Up US Response
Solange Reyner, Newsmax - March 6


EUROPE


Russia warns Finland it will be more vulnerable if it hosts nuclear weapons
Dmitry Antonov, Reuters - March 6


ASIA-PACIFIC


Nuclear war fear? The food that protected Japanese people against atomic bomb radiation in Nagasaki
Rachel Sacks, New York Post - March 8

A Japanese ‘conman’ tried to sell an undercover DEA agent nuclear materials – but how did he get them?
Edward Helmore, The Guardian - March 7

  Opinion & Commentary


Trita Parsi, Ali Vaez, Sanam Vakil, Stephen Kinzer, Yasmine Farouk, Afshin Matin-Asgari: What Will Iran’s Future Hold?
OPINION: New York Times - March 8

Syrus Solo Jin: Nuclear-armed North Korea is pivoting from reunification to coexistence
OPINION: South China Morning Post - March 8

John Dale Grover: An Extended War With Iran Will Weaken American Deterrence Against China and Russia
OPINION: The American Conservative - March 8

W.J. Hennigan, Massimo Calabresi: There Is One Crucial Reason We’re Talking About Boots on the Ground
OPINION: New York Times - March 7

Aluf Benn: The chaos of a failed state in Iran would be a perfectly acceptable outcome for Netanyahu
OPINION: The Guardian - March 7

Miles Yu: How China’s enormous bet on Iran failed
OPINION: Washington Post - March 6

Hao Nan: Five structural shifts could enable North Korea's ambition
OPINION: Nikkei Asia - March 6

Stephen Blank, Peter Huessy: What the Arms Control Community Gets Wrong About Arms Control
OPINION: RealClearDefense - March 6

John Ferrari, Elaine McCusker, Todd Harrison: What to Make of the Pentagon’s New $152 Billion Spending Plan
OPINION: National Interest - March 6

Audrey Beldio: Quenching the Nuclear Stockpile’s Thirst for Tritium
OPINION: War on the Rocks - March 6

Héloïse Fayet: France has a new nuclear doctrine of ‘forward deterrence’ for Europe. What does it mean?
OPINION: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - March 5

Sarah Crespi, Warren Cornwall, Robert F. Service, Richard Stone, Valerie Thompson, Jocelyn Kaiser, Kevin McLean: An alleged nuclear blast may reignite weapons testing, and who owns the Moon
PODCAST: Science - March 5

Antony Dabila: The Birth of European Nuclear Deterrence
OPINION: Project Syndicate - March 5


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