And how much are they prepared to pay for the putative long-term energy security and stability provided by nuclear?
Lead-magnesium-niobate transducers in broadband sonars are likely to make the seas perfectly transparent, eliminating for the first time the presumed invulnerability of submarine-launched ballistic missiles, the anchor of strategic nuclear stability.
So both -- actions by both countries, by both regimes threaten regional stability and threaten the nuclear security of the globe.
The shadow of nuclear rivalry between India and Pakistan is at the heart of international concern about stability in south Asia, and the nuclear issue will be pursued in more talks in London next week between Mr Singh and US Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott.
President Barack Obama has pledged to engage with some of Washington's staunchest enemies, including Iran, in a bid promote stability and contain the spread of nuclear weapons.
The disclosures "place at risk ongoing cooperation between countries partners, allies and common stakeholders to confront common challenges from terrorism to pandemic diseases to nuclear proliferation that threaten global stability, " State Department legal adviser Harold Koh wrote to a lawyer for the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, Saturday, in a last-ditch effort to forestall publication.
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What is a bigger threat to stability in this region -- Iran with nuclear weapons, or another war in this region?
The Secretary-General is gravely concerned about the negative impact of this deeply destabilizing act on regional stability as well as the global efforts for nuclear non-proliferation.
"They claim to be worried about global stability, but they are not vigilant about nuclear materials and ballistic missile technology, " she says, pointing out that Russia is already helping arm Iran.
And some other Iranians even believe that Iran should have the right to nuclear weapons because they say Israel has nuclear weapons and this would bring some stability to the region instead of instability.
Clinton, who returned from Asia on Sunday after her first overseas trip as secretary of state, called North Korea's nuclear program "the most acute challenge to stability in northeast Asia" and has said there is a "testing period" at present about how diplomacy can move forward.
Like his fellows on the radical left, he dreams of a world with little American influence and claims a leadership role without offering any ideas that contribute to world peace: such as stability, human rights, opposition to international terrorism and nuclear proliferation , or, any moral problems that have traditionally been the West's preoccupation.
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The traditional take on North Korea is that the world's leading missile and nuclear proliferator poses less of a burden to global stability than a post-regime North Korea filled with millions of starving people who have been cut off from the world for 60 years.
There will be no stability in East Asia until he can be induced to cease his nuclear antics.
And the lower nuclear numbers go, the harder it gets to maintain stability and security, since unexpected challenges can have bigger consequences when a country has fewer weapons rather than many.
An Israeli strike would prevent a regional nuclear arms race by freeing Arab states of the need to develop their own nuclear arsenals and so prove that a strong Israel enhances regional stability.
Aside from that, the specter of a nuclear-armed Iran throws a monkey wrench into any thought of regional stability.
But he said he is is particularly concerned about the security and stability of Pakistan, which is fighting its own campaign against the Taliban and has nuclear weapons.
Because, for the Islamic Republic, nuclear acquisition has become a regime imperative and a key guarantor of regime stability.
Do you believe that Iran is aggressively pursuing the development of a nuclear weapons capability or that it otherwise poses a threat to Middle East oil supplies and stability?
Because whether it is threatening the nuclear non-proliferation regime, or the human rights of its own citizens, or the stability of its own neighbors by supporting terrorism, the Iranian government continues to demonstrate that its own unjust actions are a threat to justice everywhere.
The robustness of America's nuclear deterrent is certainly crucial, if a test ban is to enhance, rather than undermine, stability and security.
In short, a successful Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear installations will demonstrate to real rather than fake realists that a strong Israel is indispensable to regional stability and international security.
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