The beginnings of Iraq’s sectarian civil war, the failures of its US-built political system, and the struggle for civilians attempting to survive chaos and violence are here in these 2004 interviews.
A U.S. tank moves past a painting of Saddam Hussein in March 2003 in Nasiriyah, Iraq.
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University students today are too young to remember the March 2003 start of the Iraq War, which has future foreign policy implications and changes how the conflict should be taught.
Major concern: a simulation of the explosion of a ‘dirty bomb’ in Seattle, US, in 2003.
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Jeffrey Fields, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
What are classified documents? Who gets to see them? What happens if they are released?
A cascade of gas centrifuges at a U.S. enrichment plant in Piketon, Ohio, in 1984. Iran is using similar technology to enrich uranium.
U.S. Department of Energy
Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons centers on producing weapons-grade uranium. Here’s what reports about Iran enriching uranium indicate about its progress toward the bomb.
Gordon Adams, American University School of International Service
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the US Afghanistan pullout is not a repeat of failures in other recent wars. “This is not Saigon,” he said. A seasoned foreign policy expert disagrees.
The nuclear-armed and dependent states have been put on notice. They know the treaty jeopardises their claimed right to continue to threaten the planet.
In this Jan. 8, 2020 photo, rescue workers search the scene where a Ukrainian plane crashed in Shahedshahr, southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran.
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The charges against a Sydney man for allegedly acting as an ‘economic agent’ for North Korea are set against the background of recent tougher UN sanctions against the rogue nation.
Nothing to stop high energy weapons being deployed in orbit around Earth.
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Australia is playing a major role in developing legal guidelines that would govern how any war in space is played out. The authors of MILAMOS hope the manual is never actually required.