In a pattern that has become familiar in the three years since Iran's once-secretive nuclear facilities became public, the United Nations nuclear agency expressed "serious concern" today about Tehran's nuclear program, but Iran responded that it would not curtail it.

Is it possible that Iran really isn't trying to make weapons or is this whole thing a farce? Its too bad that the US blew what little cred it had on Iraq which turned out to have none and now, politically, its going to be much harder for the US to try to make this stick. Which, I suppose, is the reason that we're standing behind the EU3 and saying, "yeah, what they said."

One idea that's been floating around the "new/better nukes" crowd
that appears in Wired on a pretty regular basis is to have a single global nuclear fuel supplier. A single operation under heavy
supervision on all sides would provide *everyone's* fuel and handle spent fuel afterwards. Anyone who's truly only interested in civilian power production should be amenable to such a plan, at least in principle.