Thomas C. Reed is a former nuclear weapons designer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Secretary of the Air Force under presidents Ford and Carter, and Special Assistant to President Reagan for National Security Policy. With Danny Stillman, he has co-authored The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and Its Proliferation. He shares his thoughts on Iran's nuclear program, via our friend John B. Dwyer1) It should come as no surprise that Iran has a second uranium enrichment facility.  The very competent scientists at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna have suspected as much, while tracking the engineers involved, for over a year.2) There can be no doubt that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapon capability.  The Iranian leaders do so by dancing close to the edge - but staying within - the constraints of the Nuclear Nonproliferation treaty.  By doing so, Iran can produce the fissile materials needed for a bomb.  The rest is...(Read Full Post)