Less than three weeks ago, the White House announced a diplomatic effort to restart the stalled six-party nuclear talks.
As to timing, Mr Perkovich explains how India was yanked across the nuclear threshold for crude party-political reasons.
But by announcing Egypt's nuclear-power drive at a party conference, during a period of high regional tension over Iran's nuclear ambitions, the younger Mubarak was clearly staking out a more assertive role, both for himself and for Egypt.
But Plaid's nuclear policy has brought difficulties for the party in its strongholds in north west Wales, where jobs in the nuclear industry have been important for the local economy.
Brazil is a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty since 1998 as a non-nuclear weapons state.
Only two local issues have led both candidates to break ranks with the party brass: nuclear waste and gambling.
He said his country has every right as a party to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty to pursue nuclear power to generate electricity.
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And the weaker party, if nuclear capable, invariably holds out the threat of nuclear war as a way to deter conventional attack.
But the Bush administration then eased up, and through the Six-Party Talks cut a nuclear freeze deal in 2007 with North Korea.
The global superpower and nuclear peer that was the other party, the Soviet Union, has been out of business for over a decade.
She later said that this did not mean candidates needed to campaign on the party's national nuclear policy but on supporting local jobs on Anglesey.
Labour's shadow energy secretary Caroline Flint reiterated the party's support for nuclear power.
The leader of Plaid Cymru has clarified the party's position on nuclear power and how it relates to Anglesey.
Liberal Democrat MP Sir Menzies Campbell, who is chairing the cross-party commission looking into the nuclear issue, said the report was ill-timed.
Mr Salmond, who has met with former US Secretary of State Colin Powell during his visit, said he did not believe his party's stance on nuclear weapons would be a problem when it came to Scotland's membership of the military alliance, and pointed out that 25 of the 28 members of Nato were non-nuclear.
North Korea said it was prepared to rejoin the six-party talks aimed at ending its nuclear programme.
The editorial may be a hopeful sign as the international community tries to coax Pyongyang back to six-party negotiations aimed at ending its nuclear program.
The so-called six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program had come to a standstill.
China and Russia, North Korea's closest allies, called for a resumption of the stalled multi-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programme.
Yet the Bush administration recently, and for the first time, dispatched a diplomat to join multi-party talks with Iran over its alleged nuclear weapon ambitions.
Mr Ban also called on Russia - a member of the stalled six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programme - to help bring Pyongyang back to the negotiating table.
Also in the margins of the ASEAN meeting, Condoleezza Rice, America's secretary of state, attended six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programme, her first such meeting for four years.
The Scottish National Party has said it would not allow nuclear weapons to be based in Scotland, should next year's referendum support independence, a move that would potentially add billions to the cost of replacing Trident.
The election manifesto included the pledge to review the role of nuclear, the prime minister highlighted it in his party conference speech in October and has returned to the subject on a number of occasions since, including at the Commons Liaison committee.
For instance, when the US reacted to North Korea's 2006 nuclear and ICBM tests by reinstating the six-party talks in the hopes of appeasing Pyongyang, Iran learned that by exhibiting an interest in engaging the US on its uranium enrichment program it could gain valuable time.
Plenty of governments involved are unhappy at America's proposed nuclear agreement with India, but wary of offending either party.
Mr Ozawa has one more means of destruction: the nuclear option of leading his true supporters out of the party.
Some in my own party may have trouble reconciling investments in our nuclear complex with a commitment to arms reduction.
Dumfries' Labour MSP Dr Elaine Murray, however, recently pushed for her party to allow for the possibility of new nuclear builds.
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