Richard Bacon

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Diplomats from countries that brokered the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement met in Vienna in March and declared that it was working.Credit Joe Klamar/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

This article has been updated to reflect recent developments.

There are few things more worrisome to imagine than the situation we have today in the Middle East. One, however, would be the current situation in the Middle East with nuclear-armed states.

So far, the international regime of nonproliferation has effectively kept the number of nuclear-armed states at bay, even within the context of the continuing regional cold war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

The most important and promising step taken toward nonproliferation in the past 20 years — the one with the most impact — is known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.…  Seguir leyendo »