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In 2011, Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for U.S. and Canadian…
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The deal to rid Syria of its chemical weapons program is done.
In a statement Saturday, Obama said "the United States remains prepared to…
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Finding himself rushed into ordering a symbolic attack about which he had serious doubts, President Obama called time out and put the…