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Iran threatens Israel; new EU sanctions take force Yeganeh Torbati / Reuters Iran announced missile tests on Sunday and threatened to wipe Israel “off the face of the earth” if the Jewish state attacked it, brandishing some of its starkest threats on the...

The Law of the Sea: Key Quotations

  NATIONAL SECURITY   “What the convention would do for our armed forces: It codifies navigational rights and freedoms essential for our global mobility. It helps sustain our combat forces in the field. It includes the right of innocent passage through foreign...

American Sovereignty and the Law of the Sea

On the eve of the third Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Law of the Sea treaty, I find public dialogue on the convention (still) divided between two camps: one of expansive, enthusiastic support and another of small, stubborn opposition. While the...

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New START is working to enhance US national security Terri Lodge / The Hill The New START Treaty is one year old, and the results are in. This Treaty, the result of years of negotiations between the United States and Russia, works. New START enhances U.S. national...