Little more than a year ago, the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) completed its initial analysis of Iran's nuclear program, Checking Iran's Nuclear Ambitions. Since then, Tehran's nuclear activities and public diplomacy have only affirmed what this analysis first suggested: Iran is not about to give up its effort to make nuclear fuel and, thereby, come within days of acquiring a nuclear bomb. Iran's continued pursuit of uranium enrichment and plutonium recycling puts a premium on asking what a more confident nuclear-ready Iran might confront us with and what we might do now to hedge against these threats. These questions are the focus of this volume.

"October 2005"--T.p. "October 2005."

Part I. Getting ready for a nuclear-ready Iran: report of the NPEC Working Group / Henry Sokolski / Part II. Tehran's nuclear endeavors: what's the worry? Arab security responses to a nuclear-ready Iran / Richard L. Russell -- The nuclear capabilities and ambitions of Iran's neighbors / Wyn Q. Bowen and Joanna Kidd -- Turkey, Iran and nuclear risks / Ian O. Lesser -- The day after Iran gets the bomb / Kenneth R. Timmerman / Part III. Is there a simple military or sanctions fix? Is the Begin Doctrine still a viable option for Israel? / Shlomo Brom -- Strategy for a nuclear Iran / Thomas Donnelly -- Iran gets the bomb: then what? / George Perkovich, with Silvia Manzanero / Part IV. Further courses of action. Reducing vulnerability of the Strait of Hormuz / Dagobert Brito and Amy Myers Jaffe -- Deter and contain: dealing with a nuclear Iran / Michael Eisenstadt -- Managing the Iranian threat to sea commerce diplomatically / Douglas E. Streusand -- What transatlantic strategy on Iran? / Therese Delpech.