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...bizarre nonproliferation precedent?it began construction of a reactor that could make many bombs' worth of plutonium while suspending routine international inspections of North Korea's nuclear activities designed to prevent proliferation. Pyongyang, moreover, blew the deal apart late in 2002 when it revealed it was building a covert uranium enrichment plant. For these reasons, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced in July that the reactor project would "cease to exist...
...plant without inspectors finding out in time to block the material from being made into bombs. The U.S. State Department validated the report's detailed scenarios by asking that I censor key specifics. Diverting fresh reactor fuel, the study concluded, could reduce the effort needed to make bomb-grade uranium five-fold, while after little more than a year of operation, the reactor would contain sufficient plutonium in its spent fuel to make 50 or more reliable nuclear bombs...
Just days after delivering a vitriolic speech to the United Nations General Assembly—in which Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared Iran’s inalienable right to enrich uranium and develop nuclear power—the hard-line president gave another highly distressing address. During a military parade, he told cheering crowds: “Those who decide to misuse our nation’s honor…should know that the flames of the nation’s wrath are very hot and destructive.” Amidst the parade, banners proclaimed “Israel should...
Even putting aside the issue of nonsensical economics, Iran’s history clearly demonstrates that it cannot be trusted to develop nuclear technology that can easily be converted to military use. The nation hid development of a gas centrifuge cascade that could be used to make weapons-grade uranium and development of a nuclear reactor capable of producing plutonium from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for several years...
...latest developments are extremely alarming. Last month, Iran not only flatly rejected an extremely conciliatory European Union offer to provide trade and technology incentives in exchange for abandoning uranium-enrichment work, it resumed uranium conversion, the crucial first step before enrichment. And just a few days ago, Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator threatened that it would resume full-scale uranium enrichment if Iran was referred by the IAEA to the Security Council...