Containing and Deterring a Nuclear Iran

  Notes

  1. Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Remarks at the 2010 AIPAC Policy Conference” (speech, US Department of State, Washington, DC, March 22, 2010), www.state.gov

  /secretary/rm/2010/03/138722.htm (accessed October 28, 2011).

  2. Quoted in Yitzhak Benhorin, “Obama: Nuclear Iran ‘Unacceptable,’” Israel News, September 5, 2008, www

  .ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3592480,00.html (accessed October 28, 2011).

  3. Barry Schweid, “Bush Says Iran’s Nuclear Bid Is ‘Unacceptable,’” Associated Press, January 13, 2006, https://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld

  /2002738022_webbush13.html (accessed October 30, 2011).

  4. Associated Press, “Nuclear Iran Is ‘Unacceptable’ to France: Sarkozy,” June 23, 2008, www.indianexpress.com

  /news/nuclear-iran-is-unacceptable-to-france-sa/326587 (accessed November 1, 2011).

  5. Patrick Cronin, “Iran on the Threshold: From Engagement to Containment,” The Daily Caller, www.cnas

  .org/node/4104 (accessed October 30, 2011).

  6. Gary Samore, interview by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), “Obama Adviser Gary Samore: ‘The Ball Is Very Much in Tehran’s Court,’” RFE/RL, April 14, 2011, www.rferl.org/content/interview_samore_russia_iran_us_policy/3557326.html (accessed October 30, 2011).

  7. Quoted in David Sanger, “Debate Grows on Nuclear Containment of Iran,” New York Times, March 13, 2010; and Patrick Cronin, “Iran on the Threshold: From Engagement to Containment,” The Daily Caller, www.cnas

  .org/node/4104 (accessed October 30, 2011).

  8. Barry R. Posen, “We Can Live with a Nuclear Iran,” New York Times, February 27, 2006.

  9. Christopher Layne, “Iran: The Logic of Deterrence,” The American Conservative, April 10, 2006, www

  .theamericanconservative.com/article/2006/apr/10/00007 (accessed October 30, 2011).

  10. James Lindsay and Ray Takeyh, “After Iran Gets the Bomb: Containment and Its Complications,” Foreign Affairs, March/April 2010, www.cfr.org/publication

  /22182/after_iran_gets_the_bomb/html (accessed October 30, 2011).

  11. Ibid.

  12. Daniel Coats, Charles Robb, and Michael Makovsky, “Meeting the Challenge: U.S. Policy Towards Iranian Nuclear Development,” Bipartisan Policy Center, September 2008.

  13. Eric S. Edelman, Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr., and Evan Braden Montgomery, “The Dangers of a Nuclear Iran: The Limits of Containment,” Foreign Affairs, January/

  February 2011, 66–81. The article is said to reflect a summary of a larger, forthcoming study to be published by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

  14. John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), ix.

  15. George Kennan to James Byrrnes, telegram, February 22, 1946, www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/documents

  /episode-1/kennan.htm (accessed October 30, 2011).

  16. Ibid.

  17. John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), 38.

  18. Ibid., 48.

  19. Harry S. Truman, Address before a Joint Session of Congress (speech, US Congress, Washington, DC, March 12, 1947), https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/trudoc.asp (accessed October 31, 2011); and US Department of State, “NSC 68: United States Objectives and Programs for National Security,” in Foreign Relations of the United States 1950, vol. 1, April 14, 1950, www.mtholyoke.edu/acad

  /intrel/nsc-68/nsc68-1.htm (accessed October 31, 2011).

  20. Harry S. Truman, Address before a Joint Session of Congress (speech, US Congress, Washington, DC, March 12, 1947), https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/trudoc.asp (accessed October 31, 2011).

  21. US Department of State, “NSC 68: United States Objectives and Programs for National Security,” in Foreign Relations of the United States 1950, vol. 1, April 14, 1950, 8, www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/nsc-68/nsc68-1.htm (accessed October 31, 2011).

  22. Ibid, 21.

  23. Ibid.