Jacques E. C. Hymans
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The author challenges claims that Iran could cheat at the nuclear deal by developing nuclear weapons at clandestine facilities, noting that intelligence agencies and technical methods have always detected these sneakout attempts before.
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Nuclear weapons are hard to build for managerial reasons, not technical ones. This is why so few authoritarian regimes have succeeded: they don’t have the right culture or institutions. When it comes to Iran’s program, then, the United States and its allies should get out of the way and let Iran’s worst enemies -- its own leaders -- gum up the process on their own.
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"Institutional dysfunction will slow or halt Pyongyang's further progress toward an operational nuclear arsenal. The same is true for the remaining would-be proliferators, all of which suffer from a lack of professionalism and poorly-built political systems."
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