Iran and the Bomb

One of the world's leading authorities on international nuclear security, Thérèse Delpech provides a hard-hitting analysis of Iran's nuclear intentions. She begins with a history of Iran's nuclear project-launched with the help of several Western countries& mdash;from the 1970s to today. She examines the reasons behind Iran's renewed interest in nuclear power during its war with Iraq, and the national pride, exemplified by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's bellicose rhetoric, that prevents the...
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One of the world's leading authorities on international nuclear security, Thérèse Delpech provides a hard-hitting analysis of Iran's nuclear intentions. She begins with a history of Iran's nuclear project-launched with the help of several Western countries& mdash;from the 1970s to today. She examines the reasons behind Iran's renewed interest in nuclear power during its war with Iraq, and the national pride, exemplified by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's bellicose rhetoric, that prevents the country from bowing to the dictates of the international community. Then she dissects the strategy of the various actors in this new global crisis: Iran, the commonly termed EU "3" (the United Kingdom, France, and Germany), the United States, Russia, China, and the International Atomic Energy Agency.Delpech follows with an analysis of the feasibility, practicality, and political viability of such possible solutions as dismantling by force, supervised third party reprocessing, referral to the United Nations' Security Council, and Iranian appeasement. In conclusion, she unravels the tangled regional and international dimensions of the crisis, detailing the enormous impact of Iran's game on the Persian Gulf, Turkey, the political and military movements of Israel, America's presence in Iraq and the wider Middle East, and the future of the much-weakened Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.