Hesitation at the Nuclear Threshold

Hesitation at the Nuclear Threshold

It is often in the moments of greatest ambition that the tide of history turns most cruelly against a nation. In June, as Israeli jets roared over the skies of Natanz and Isfahan and American bombers joined them in a convergence of interests, the Islamic Republic of Iran confronted a reality it had long feared but never fully believed possible: the destruction of its nuclear project, decades in the making, reduced in less than two weeks of war t…