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As the conflict with Iran continues to oscillate between combat operations and diplomacy, it is worth remembering why we are doing this. The goal is to end Iran’s ability to make a nuclear weapon, and while we don’t know if diplomacy can achieve this, it is never too early to plan for success.
Plenty has been said about how Iran could build a handful of uranium bombs. Less has been said about the hundreds of bombs Iran could make using the plutonium located at its nuclear-power reactor in Bushehr. This is a major oversight.
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Stephen Rademaker is a Senior Advisor at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) and the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation.
R. Scott Kemp is Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Read the full piece in The Hill.