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Instead, Iran is edging closer toward a nuclear weapons option.

Iran's Islamic leadership seems to realize that it cannot keep asking its people to put up with crushing economic sanctions to preserve a nuclear weapons option.

Obama realized that if nothing changed, Iran would get a nuclear weapons option before sanctions could bring Tehran to its knees.

But neither Republicans nor Democrats have been willing to consider such an approach, because of the pursuit of a nuclear weapons option and support for terrorist organizations that Iran employs to defend what it sees as its fundamental security interests.

Siegfried S. Hecker of Stanford University and a former director of the Los Alamos weapons laboratory said the growing size of the Iranian stockpile "underscored that they are marching down the path to developing the nuclear weapons option".

Hecker added that Washington must demonstrate that it is prepared to cooperate with Tehran on a "peaceful nuclear pursuit, and not continue to isolate it". As for Iran, it would need to operate transparently and implement specific protocols to assure the international community that it would not return to the nuclear weapons option.

"For Iran, the lesson of the South Korean experience is clear: Tehran should decide to abandon its enrichment efforts because the costs – technological, economic and political – are not worth the price of keeping the nuclear weapon option open," Hecker and Milani wrote.

Nothing in the interim agreement even addresses the likelihood of Iran's efforts to weaponize highly enriched uranium and to develop a plutonium nuclear-weapon option.

It had been procured partly for its capacity to deliver nuclear weapons, an ordnance option the government seriously contemplated but never acquired.

The new bombers were acquired partly for their capacity to deliver nuclear weapons, an ordnance option the RAAF seriously investigated but never implemented.

But in most plausible scenarios, U.S. conventional military options are very effective; and because they are less apocalyptic and would not end the 71-year tradition of not using nuclear weapons, conventional strike options are more credible than nuclear options.