The greatest challenge for big-power diplomacy today is non-proliferation, keeping shut the door to the nuclear club.
Let the nuclear club practise what they preach and the world will truly be a safer place.
But in one decisive step he's achieved that which his own father could not: entry into the exclusive nuclear club.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reportedly told his ministers that Israel needs to develop contingencies for the day after Iran joins the nuclear club.
But the effect is to make India the sixth member of the nuclear club, and that's a big blow to the cause of non-proliferation.
To say that nuclear celebration has given way to a hangover is an exaggeration, especially as Pakistan too is now joining the nuclear club.
At that time there were no more than 30 qualified nuclear physicists in the country, far fewer than China needed to join the nuclear club.
With this, India joins an elite nuclear club of China, Russia, France, the US and UK which already have long-range missiles, although with a much greater range.
It will need to put the nations of the world on notice that they cannot expect us to stand by idly as they welcome Iran into the nuclear club.
As a result of particular internal characteristics unique to Iran, its possession of nuclear weapons may be far more problematic than that of any other state to have previously joined the nuclear club.
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This is even more true if, as I suspect will be the case, Iraq's entry into the so-called "nuclear club" will compel every country within missile range of Baghdad to seek its own nuclear strike capabilities.
There, as Iran moves swiftly towards the nuclear club, the US on the one hand refuses - as it does with Pakistan - to make the hard but essential decision to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power.
We also speak exclusively to Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the IAEA, the man caught in the diplomatic crossfire between states eager to join the nuclear club, and those already in who do not trust the outsiders to play safe.
With just months separating Iran from either joining the nuclear club or from being barred entry to the clubhouse, the Obama administration's apparent obsession with Judea and Samaria tells us that unlike Israel and the Arab world, its Middle East policies are based on a willful denial of reality.
North Korea recently tested a crude nuclear device, adding yet another member to that previously exclusive club of nuclear weapon states.
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Within three years the global price of oil would rise 50% as Saudi Arabia followed Iran into the club of nuclear nations and the oil markets tacked a massive geopolitical risk premium onto oil supplies.
And it goes on to analyse the fallout from the Iran-Iraq war, the crucial role Iran played in creating Hizbullah, the Shiite militia's wrongdoings in Lebanon, as well as Iran's more recent meddling in Iraq and its ambitions to join the small club of nuclear nations.
Neither country, it was said, would be accepted into the club of official nuclear powers.
It wants recognition by the other nuclear powers that it is now one of the club, and the promise of an end to sanctions if it signs the treaty.
It essentially says: Those countries that have nuclear weapons can keep them, but no one else can join the club.
"A real exit strategy has to start with an inspection by the world's top experts on nuclear accidents, " Iida told reporters at Japan's national press club last week.
Once in the club, with full voting rights, countries can answer back, leaving their peers with only the nuclear option of trying to expel them.
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