Playing with fallout

摘要

To ignore one unanimous United Nations Security Council resolution may be considered impudence; to defy a second looks like policy. This week the UN'S nuclear inspectors confirmed that, far from suspending work to enrich uranium (which, sufficiently purified, can be made into bombs), as the council has now twice demanded, Iran is spinning ever more centrifuge machines ever faster at its plant at Natanz. Shrugging off the limited sanctions so far, Iran claims an "inalienable right" under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to any nuclear technology it fancies. So what next?