Dr. Conca reports that the President Obama multinational nuclear deal with Iran will go forward. Senator Mikulski support gives the Administration the thirty-four Senators needed to prevent a veto override that could come from the Senate. This is a good thing, Conca opines.
As the last holdout of the global coalition, the U.S. was on the verge of making fools of ourselves by blocking the deal we worked on for such a long time. Killing this deal would have allowed Iran to get free of the sanctions anyway, get their US$100 billion back, and have their nuclear program continue unchanged.
America was never able to go it alone on this deal. The whole world agreed to the sanctions. Which is the only reason Iran came to the table two years ago. But the rest of the world has said they will leave us high and dry if we do not uphold our end of the bargain. But political shenanigans aside, this deal was always about science. Nuclear is one of those things that can only be understood, and dealt with, with a good scientific understanding and knowledge about what it takes to make a nuclear weapon. And how to know when that activity is occurring, and when it is not.
Those who do not know the difference between a bomb and a power plant can be forgiven for not understanding this deal, for not understanding the technical means that will tell us quickly whether or not Iran is, in fact, cheating on this deal.
Secretary of Energy, Dr. Ernie Moniz, a world-renowned nuclear physicist, has been working overtime to explain the science underpinning this deal. As Moniz points out, they can not just flush nuclear material down the toilet or otherwise hide it. Radioactivity leaves behind detectable traces that we know how to find.
The Secretary should know. The U.S. has developed most of the techniques and equipment to detect such things. Some are classified, but some are not. But all are well-known in the nuclear industry around the world.
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