So, two decades ago when I was the (first-ever) political-military advisor in the State Department's Bureau of South Asian Affairs, we set a broad strategy for our approach to nuclear proliferation in India and Pakistan: we would seek the two countries' agreement to cap, then roll-back, and finally, hopefully, eliminate the nuclear weapons on the subcontinent.
That has not gone so well.
On the other hand, noted nuclear proliferation expert Joe Cirincione has just said, in The Atlantic, that Iran is rolling back its stock of medium enriched uranium. Not just capped. Rolled back. And Tehran appears open to rejiggering its plutonium plant to render it far less capable of producing enough weapons-grade material, as well.
Diplomacy works - if you can get the politicians to simply quit pandering.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/04/the-iranian-nuclear-deal-is-working/361066/
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