WTOP reports that UN inspectors believe Syria is concealing nuclear activity. Reuters reports that UN experts also believe that North Korea is evading UN sanctions for nuclear violations via an elaborate scheme. Expect more news like this, if violators are not caught en flagrante--and even then, expect more of the same if violators are not punished harshly. New Republic editor Leon Wieseltier urges President Obama to press for liberal regime change in Iran as the solution to the Iranian nuclear problem, but sees in Obama's passing up the 20th anniversary Berlin Wall celebration as indicating lack of interest in connecting regime reform to arms control.
And while rogues pursue nukes, with the possibility of their being passed on to terrorists, the US has run out of a key raw material needed for plutonium bomb detection devices.
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