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The broader issue of nuclear weapons proliferation and here is the reason i say this, kelly. there are lots of countries that have nuclear power plants that generate electricity, but just because you have one doesnt mean you can build a bomb. in fact, you need more than that and in fact, the focus on irans program from the u.s. and others, has been enrichment because enrichment is the technology that could be misused and used for a military program, not the power plant generating electricity. >>...

Campbell? >> all right, dan loathian for us tonight. dan, thanks very much. and sam nunn, the highly respected former senator from georgia, has been leading efforts to try to stop the spread of nuclear weapons for decades. first in government and now as the ceo of the nuclear threat initiative. and i spoke with him earlier this evening. senator nunn, there were a number of commitments made today, among them ukraine and mexico giving up their entire stockpile of highly enruched uranium. russia ...

Diplomacy was exhausted and the issue was whether the united states and the united nations and the whole international community was just going to basically surrender to saddam hussein, or whether those 17 u.n. security resolutions -- >> quickly, the damage -- just as a national security expert, when youre trying to win over support with right now iranian -- with these iranian sanctions, where were basing it on our intelligence reports, combination we had remember with president obama, gordon br...

Believe we start to unwind all the other pressure points inside the middle east. >> could you and jordan live with iran with a nuclear weapon? >> if we solve the israeli-palestinian problem, why would iranians want to spend so much money on the program? it makes no sense. it has social and economic challenges. why push the envelope in getting to a military program for what cause? if you solve the problem, you dont need to pursue that path. >> people in washington who listen to this are going to ...

Was made under false pretense, but as it is clear from an historical record, the u.s. made this deal with iran because they knew iran wasnt truthful about its military program. so are your suggesting that in 2014-15, we believed iran? >> im suggesting the deal should have never been made in the first place, and even though they had been known to be bad actors to some degree, the degree to which they were not being honest was not fully known at the time the iran deal was made. >> thank you. two q...

What were seeing is theyre undeterred and that their military program, they continue to push ahead. >> right. those u.n. security council sanctions, the seven unanimously passed including yes votes from china and russia after the two intercontinental ballistic missile launches in july. we know that sanctions do take a long time. we also know that china has suspended coal imports earlier this year. yet despite the halt of buying coal and then this seventh round of sanctions not only restricting c...

Denies him the needs to pay for his military program and buy off elites, that could get him to the table, and that includes china and here. or give him something he wants. what they have been asking for, and china has been asking for, and then to our military exercises is a very hard thing to swallow. this equivalence between our legal, perfectly open and defensive military exercises and his violations of the u.n. security council resolutions is hard to accept, but we have to get to a point wher...

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