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U.S. and Iranian officials
concluded a new round of nuclear
talks in Geneva on Tuesday,
against the backdrop of an
expanded U.S. military presence
in the Middle East and following
weeks of deadly domestic turmoil
in Iran. ... The sides met in
Geneva on Tuesday for over three
hours. Afterward, Iranian
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi
said that he and his U.S.
counterparts had “much more
serious discussions” than during
the round earlier this month and
that they “were able to reach a
set of guiding principles,”
according to a statement
published by Iran’s state media.
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U.S. and Iran hold nuclear talks
amid heavy military buildup
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Susannah George, Leo Sands and
Mohamad El Chamaa | Washington
Post
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Note: We apologize for the
delay in delivering this edition
of Proliferation News.
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Deep in China’s
Mountains, a Nuclear
Revival Takes Shape
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In the lush, misty valleys of
southwest China, satellite
imagery reveals the country’s
accelerating nuclear buildup, a
force designed for a new age of
superpower rivalry. ... These
are among several secretive
nuclear-related sites in Sichuan
Province that have expanded and
undergone upgrades in recent
years. China’s buildup
complicates efforts to revive
global arms controls after the
expiration of the final
remaining nuclear arms treaty
between the United States and
Russia. Washington argues that
any successor agreements must
also bind China, but Beijing has
shown no interest.
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Chris Buckley and Agnes Chang
| The New York Times
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Iran’s Two-Pronged
Approach to Trump:
Concessions and Saber
Rattling
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While Iranian officials are
signaling a willingness to
compromise around the edges of
their nuclear program in a new
round of nuclear talks Tuesday,
the regime is also talking tough
with military exercises in the
strategic Strait of Hormuz. Both
gambits are aimed at heading off
a possible U.S. strike. The
question is whether either will
move President Trump, who has
repeatedly said he wants a deal
that ensures Iran won’t get a
nuclear weapon and is assembling
a massive force just off the
country’s coast in case an
agreement can’t be reached.
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Laurence Norman and Benoit
Faucon | Wall Street Journal
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Nuke-talk is heating up
among Europeans in
Munich
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Multiple European countries are
publicly backing talks on a
homegrown nuclear deterrent to
complement American atomic
weapons following an erosion of
trust in a Donald Trump-led U.S.
Top officials from two Baltic
countries told POLITICO that,
while they still see NATO as the
cornerstone of nuclear
deterrence, they are now willing
to talk about Europe’s role —
adding fresh momentum to a
debate that resonated through
both public speeches and private
conversations at the Munich
Security Conference this
weekend.
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Laura Kayali and Victor Jack |
Politico
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US conducts first air
transport of nuclear
microreactor in bid to
show technology's
viability
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The U.S. Departments of Energy
and Defense on Sunday for the
first time transported a small
nuclear reactor on a cargo plane
from California to Utah to
demonstrate the potential to
quickly deploy nuclear power for
military and civilian use. The
agencies partnered with
California-based Valar Atomics
to fly one of the company’s Ward
microreactors on a C-17 aircraft
— without nuclear fuel — to Hill
Air Force Base in Utah. Energy
Secretary Chris Wright and Under
Secretary of Defense for
Acquisition and Sustainment
Michael Duffey were on the C-17
flight with the reactor and its
components, and hailed the event
as a breakthrough for U.S.
nuclear energy and military
logistics.
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Valerie Volcovici | Reuters
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A Quarter Century of
Nuclear South Asia:
Nuclear Noise,
Signalling, and the Risk
of Escalation in
India-Pakistan Crises
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The May 2025 crisis between
India and Pakistan was their
sixth militarized crisis since
the two countries tested nuclear
weapons in 1998.1 It both
affirmed and debunked cliches
about South Asia being the
world’s most dangerous nuclear
flashpoint. ... This paper
examines nuclear signalling
between these two rivals during
the most prominent crises since
the turn of the century,
focusing primarily on Pakistan’s
crisis behaviour. ‘Signalling’
encompasses allusions to the
potential for nuclear war and
gestures like sabre-rattling
that are intended to motivate
the antagonist and, in South
Asia’s case, third parties to
de-escalate the crisis on terms
acceptable to the signaller.
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Moeed Yusuf and Rizwan Zeb |
Carnegie Endowment
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© 2024 Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace. All rights
reserved.
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Carnegie does not
take institutional positions on
public policy issues; the views
represented herein are the
author[s]’s own and do not
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