A Test of Power
Mini Teaser: The Bush Administration has vastly exaggerated the dangers associated with the development of an Iranian nuclear weapons program and underestimated the deterrent capacity of U.S. military power.
2 Seymour M. Hersh, "Last Stand: The Military's Problem with the President's Iran Policy", The New Yorker, July 10, 2006
3 The limits of Russian and Chinese cooperation are assessed in Flynt Leverett and Pierre Noël, "The New Axis of Oil", The National Interest, Summer 2006, pp. 62-70.
4 Iran's 2003 initiatives and their rejection by the Bush Administration are described in Gareth Porter, "Burnt Offerings", The American Prospect, June 2006, pp. 20-25.
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