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Sec Clinton hits right notes on empowering IAEA

Secretary Clinton hit all the right notes about the International Atomic Energy Agency during her big non-proliferation speech yesterday.

Enhancing the IAEA’s capabilities to verify whether states are engaging in illicit nuclear activity is essential to strengthening the nonproliferation regime. The IAEA’s additional protocol, which allows for more aggressive, short-notice inspections should be made universal, through concerted efforts to persuade key holdout states to join.

Powerful Images of Global Drug Control

In honor of our 100th year of global drug control efforts, the Boston Globe is running a new photo series highlighting anti-drug operations around the world. They’re very powerful – and upsetting -- images, and they cast efforts to control illegal drugs in a new light.

 

 

Inching toward a deal on Iran?

Last night, Joshua Pollack of ArmsControlWonk wrote:  "I do hope I won’t have to eat these words in a few hours, but here goes...the odds are quite good that the IAEA soon will be able to announce a deal between Iran and the American-Russian-French sides."    Credit where credit is due.