Things That Go Boom

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Things That Go Boom: In nuclear negotiations, diplomacy can be a slog

May 27, 2019Nuclear

Diplomacy is often awkward, stymied by translators, late nights and unsecured yurt communication (yes, that really happened). But diplomacy can also stop a war, as years of secret and not-so-secret negotiations between the US and Iran proved when the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was reached in 2015.