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Aaron Stein
Aaron Stein is a Nonresident Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. His research interests include US-Turkey relations, Turkish foreign policy, the Syrian conflict, nonproliferation, and the Iranian nuclear program.
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            Russia, China, and the US discuss the Norks
         
            
        
            
            The North Korean Missile Threat and Alliance Reassurance
         
            
        
            
            North Korea’s KN-11 Goes Kablooie
         
            
        
            
            A Region in Flux: Proliferation Concerns in the Middle East
         
            
        
            
            North Korea’s Submarine Launched Missile
         
            
        
            
            NPT Review Conference Follies II
         
            
        
            
            NPT Review Conference Follies I
         
            
        
            
            The Framework Nuclear Agreement with Iran
         
            
        
            
            Iran Talks Have Become a Coughing Goat Rodeo
         
            
        
            
            Missile Confusion: Turkey’s Dance with the Chinese
         
            
        
            
            The Terse End to Cooperative Threat Reduction
         
            
        
            
            Modernization Mountain: Ash Carter and the Aging Triad
         
            
        
            
            Geospatial Analysis and the Serial Podcast
         
            
        
            
            The Little Green Men and a New Cruise Missile
         
            
        
            
            The Redline: Iran and the January Deadline
         
            
        
            
            Monitoring Missile Proliferation with Open Source Tools
         
            
        
            
            Space and Emerging Technologies: Future Proliferation Threats
         
            
        
            
            Concerns about Iran’s Nuclear Program in the Gulf
         
            
        
            
            Full Frontal? Verifying a Nuclear Deal with Iran
         
            
        
            
            An Expensive Burden: Nuclear Weapons in Europe
         
            
        
            
            Satellites Under Threat: The Spread of Hit-To-Kill
         
            
        
            
            Russia and the INF: Don’t Call it a Circumvention
         
            
        
            
            Open Source and the MH17 Shootdown
         
            
        
            
            The Motorcycle Diaries: Japan’s Nuclear Program
         
            
        
            
            Double Dragon: Open Source and North Korean Missile Launches
         
            
        
            
            The Rebalance and the Shangri La Brouhaha
         
            
        
            
            Burma’s Suspicious Defense Facility
         
            
        
            
            Missiles on Parade: The Saudi DF-3
         
            
        
            
            A Gordian Knot: Missiles in the Gulf
         
            
        
            
            Podcast: The INF and the Dismemberment of Ukraine
         
            
        
            
            Turkey’s Syria Policy: Why Seymour Hersh Got it Wrong
         
            
        
            
            Concentric Circles: Iran’s Compartmentalized Nuclear Program
         
            
        
Most Recent Comments
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In: Concentric Circles: Iran's Compartmentalized Nuclear Program
No problem Yousaf. Always enjoy a good debate. I find the continued references to the Hibbs article to be a…
 
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In: Concentric Circles: Iran's Compartmentalized Nuclear Program
Thank you for the comment. I cover the MIT connection in great detail in my dissertation. For the blog post,…
 

In: A Gordian Knot: Missiles in the Gulf
I don't think the KSA air force is a joke. However, there are numerous jokes in the region about the…May 2, 2014 5:53 am