Meeting the Challenge: Stopping the Clock
Feb. 1, 2012

This is BPC’s fourth report on the most immediate national security challenge facing our nation: Iran’s continued progress towards nuclear weapons capability.

View all work from the Iran Initiative here.

Fragility and Extremism in Yemen
March 1, 2011

In 2009 and 2010, nearly a decade after 9/11, terrorists with ties to Yemen reminded the world that global threats continue to emanate from fragile states, no matter how distant and remote. Although Yemen may just now be joining the list of notorious terrorist safe havens—together with Somalia, Afghanistan and Pakistan—its fragility is not newfound. Nor is the presence there of threats to U.S. and international security.

Group urges credible U.S. military threat to Iran
Feb. 1, 2012

The BPC report's central thesis is that to persuade Iran to address questions about its nuclear program via negotiations, economic sanctions must be accompanied by a credible threat of military attack against Iran's nuclear facilities.

"The United States needs to make clear that Iran faces a choice: it can either abandon its nuclear program through a negotiated arrangement or have its program destroyed militarily by the United States or Israel," said the report, entitled Meeting the Challenge: Stopping the Clock.