Mark Fitzpatrick, The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Avoiding Worst-Case Outcomes, 2008, Routledge, Oxon

This book explores the options for building a fence between dormant Iranian nuclear-weapons ability and a real weapon, both in practice and in terms of observation. There is no definite firewall between the peaceful nuclear activities as Iran claming allowed under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and weapons abilities, but there are some ways to make the difference between the two wider and more visible. The book also examines the policy question of whether the US and other western countries tolerating and providing legitimacy to an enrichment process in Iran is the suitable way to minimize the dangers, direct and indirect, stalking from Iran’s nuclear enrichment programme. The book indicates how Iran developed its enrichment programme to the point where it intimidates to attain a weapons capability within a short time frame, and studies western policy responses aimed at prevention that capability.

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