That's Robert Farley's advice, and it's good advice.
Posted by armand at December 10, 2007 09:12 AM | TrackBack | Posted to International AffairsJust about any nuclear program can be negotiated away.
Iraq gave up its nuclear program (as well as its other WMD programs) years before the U.S. invasion of 2003. Libya began steps to give up its nascent program as early as 2001, and completed them in 2003. Iran suspended its program in 2003, and North Korea, after years of diplomatic ineptitude on both sides, decided to give up its program (if not necessarily all of its weapons) earlier this year ...
This isn't to say that every nuclear program can be negotiated away; it would have been very hard, I think, to convince either Pakistan or India to give up their programs in the context of superpower competition. But these programs are far more contingent than hawks seem to believe.