Plus ca change, plus c’est la nuclear nonproliferation treaty

Got to hand it to Politico's Josh Gerstein. He has a short piece here on Nixon-era policy struggle, unearthed in National Archives data dump, on how much pressure to put on Israel to sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation pact back in '69, '70. Given Obama's noises on the same subject, 40 years later, this is a fascinating story. It opens the door on: the lobby's role, the importance of Israeli nuclearization to the '67 war (Nasser didn't want his neighbor to have nukes–gosh!), and the regional-superpower-character of the Iranian existential talk.