"Whether the United States will be able to develop viable preventive and containment options is hard to predict. But preparation for a nuclear Iran should start today, not tomorrow."

"It is impossible to know in advance how Iran will behave if it acquires a nuclear weapons capability and illogical to tailor U.S. policy recommendations and strategy based merely on inferences."

"Partly by design and partly by happenstance, a US grand strategy for checking Iran's nuclear ambitions – and for thwarting Iran's Islamic revolutionary government more broadly — may now be crystallizing."

"The next phase of the assassination war is liable to turn international scientific conferences into arenas of assassination."

"What could tip the Israeli domestic debate is an honest Israeli-U.S. strategic dialogue on what exactly the threat is that Iran poses and how best to address it together. In the absence of such a genuine joint effort, Israel's leadership may well conclude that only it can prevent a nuclear-armed Iran, and resort to war."