AM Nukes Roundup – March 23 – 2 Iranian strikes on towns near Israel's main nuclear research center injure more than 100 people

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Is Pakistan building ICBMs? Non-proliferation experts dispute US warning

You can view this email in your browser if it gets cut off.  Peace & Security AM Nukes Roundup March 23, 2026   Top Six 2 Iranian strikes on towns near Israel's main nuclear research center injure more than 100 people CBS News - March 22 Is Pakistan building ICBMs? Non-proliferation experts dispute US warning Tom Hussain, South China Morning Post - March 20 What is the Pentagon’s ‘Space Data Network,’ and why does it matter for Golden Dome? Theresa Hitchens, Breaking Defense - March 20 Andrew Weber: I Spent Two Decades Securing Nuclear Materials. Getting at Iran’s Would Not Be Easy. OPINION: New York Times - March 20 Alex Lo: Why the world may now need an Iranian nuclear bomb OPINION: South China Morning Post - March 20 Dalia Dassa Kaye: There’s a Reason No President Before Trump Authorized War With Iran OPINION: Foreign Policy - March 20 Peace and Security Editorial Calendar (click here for more): March 29: National Vietnam War Veteran's Day April 5: Anniversary of Obama's Prague Speech (2009) April 8: Anniversary of New START Treaty Signing (2010) April 11: Anniversary of Africa Nuclear Ban Treaty (1997) Amplify this post   News Clips   US NUCLEAR Mysterious drones swarmed US Air Force base home to nuclear bombers Sonya Gugliara, New York Post - March 21 Tiny Township Fears Iran Drone Strikes Because of New Nuclear Weapons Datacenter Matthew Gault, 404 Media - March 20 US MISSILE DEFENSE What is the Pentagon’s ‘Space Data Network,’ and why does it matter for Golden Dome? Theresa Hitchens, Breaking Defense - March 20 Industry Consortium Conducts Live C2 Demonstration for Golden Dome Courtney Albon, Air & Space Forces Magazine - March 19 KOREA 25% of N. Korean defectors from near Punggye-ri nuclear test site show chromosome mutations: data Yonhap - March 23 IRAN 2 Iranian strikes on towns near Israel's main nuclear research center injure more than 100 people CBS News - March 22 Mike Waltz says "I would never take anything off the table for the president" on bombing Iran nuclear plants Kaia Hubbard, CBS News - March 22 What to know as war with Iran enters its 4th week Justin Fishel, ABC News - March 22 Donald Trump has four bad options for the war in Iran The Economist - March 22 War against Iran has had ‘relatively marginal’ impact on nuclear program: UN weapons inspector Max Rego, The Hill - March 22 Israeli ambassador to U.S. says war with Iran will continue until Tehran’s on its knees’ John Bowden, The Independent - March 22 About 200 injured in Iranian missile strikes near nuclear facility in Israel Lorenzo Tondo, The Guardian - March 22 Tehran strikes near Israeli nuclear center as Trump threatens attacks on Iranian power plants Leonie Cater, Politico EU - March 22 Iranian missiles injure 180 in towns near Israeli nuclear site Sebastian Usher, Arad, Jaroslav Lukiv, Patrick Jackson, BBC - March 22 Trump demands five-year Iranian missile ban as price of peace Melanie Swan, The Telegraph - March 22 Only nuclear war can destroy Iran’s nuclear ambitions, IAEA chief says Claire Carter, Washington Examiner - March 22 Trump Is Finally Eyeing an Exit From Iran. But Will He Take It? David Sanger, New York Times - March 21 Inside Trump’s most difficult war decision yet: whether to put boots on the ground in Iran Kevin Liptak, Tal Shalev, Kylie Atwood, Zachary Cohen, Sarah Ferris, CNN - March 21 Trump's team game planning for potential Iran peace talks Barak Ravid, Marc Caputo, Axios - March 21 Iran attacks near Israeli nuclear site, fires long-range missiles for first time Maayan Lubell, Alexander Cornwell, Idrees Ali, Reuters - March 21 IAEA Responds to Nuclear Facility Damage Fears After Iranian Missile Strike Mandy Taheri, Newsweek - March 21 Trump is strategizing means to seize Iran's nuclear stockpiles, sources say Jennifer Jacobs, James LaPorta, Eleanor Watson, CBS News - March 20 IAEA chief says "major issues" with Iran's nuclear program could linger after war. Here are highlights from his CBS News interview. Joe Walsh, CBS News - March 20 Trump tells MS NOW it will take Iran ‘10 years’ to rebuild after U.S., Israeli strikes Clarissa-Jan Lim, David Rohde, Lindsey Pipia, MS Now - March 20 Trump stretches ‘America First’ on Iran. His voters are going along with it. Erin Doherty, Politico - March 20 Sen. Scott says U.S. should balance budget but also 'demolish' Iran's nuclear ability Lisa Desjardins, Jonah Anderson, PBS News - March 19 EUROPE Iranian man arrested trying to enter Faslane nuclear base Iona Young, BBC - March 21 Iranian and Romanian charged after trying to enter UK’s nuclear submarine base AP News - March 21 Iranian man, Romanian woman charged after allegedly trying to enter UK nuclear missile base, officials say Greg Norman-Diamond, Fox News - March 21 INDIA/PAKISTAN Is Pakistan building ICBMs? Non-proliferation experts dispute US warning Tom Hussain, South China Morning Post - March 20 INTERNATIONAL Thermonuclear Slop and the Return of the Bomb Leigh Phillips, Jacobin - March 22 RECA/NUCLEAR WASTE Dome over contaminated nuclear blast site is leaking — expert warns risk from lethal landfill could be ‘devastating’ Ben Cost, New York Post - March 20   Opinion & Commentary Joe Cirincione: Iran Holds All the Nuclear Cards OPINION: Strategy & History - March 22 Ariane Tabatabai: Iran's Nuclear Program PODCAST: NPR - March 21 Kris Osborn: New U.S. Columbia-Class and UK Dreadnought Submarines Share the Same ‘World War III’ Nuclear Missiles OPINION: 19FortyFive - March 21 Logan McMillen: What if we actually nuked our way around the Hormuz blockage? OPINION: Responsible Statecraft - March 21 Andrew Weber: I Spent Two Decades Securing Nuclear Materials. Getting at Iran’s Would Not Be Easy. OPINION: New York Times - March 20 Rick Richman: One More Flaw in the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal LTE: Wall Street Journal - March 20 Ali Vaez: Expert discusses Iran's nuclear capabilities before and after the US-Israeli attacks PODCAST: NPR - March 20 Dalia Dassa Kaye: There’s a Reason No President Before Trump Authorized War With Iran OPINION: Foreign Policy - March 20 Alex Lo: Why the world may now need an Iranian nuclear bomb OPINION: South China Morning Post - March 20 Anik Joshi: Thanks to the Iran Hawks, Nuclear Nonproliferation Is Dead OPINION: The American Conservative - March 20 Brent Eastwood: X-37B: China and Russia Fear America’s Mysterious ‘Space Plane’ Can Drop a Nuclear Bomb From Orbit OPINION: 19FortyFive - March 20 Editorial Board: The US Says It’s Winning in Iran. Time to Act Like It EDITORIAL: Bloomberg - March 19 Kyle Balzer: Why the “Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator” Bomb Deserves a Second Chance OPINION: National Interest - March 19 ### Sign up for the AM Nukes Roundup Email our Peace & Security Team Copyright © 2026 ReThink Media, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email from the Peace & Security collaborative at Rethink Media. Our mailing address is: ReThink Media 2443 Fillmore St #380-7140 San Francisco, CA 94115-1814

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