Will the U.S. Accept a Nuclear Capable Iran?

Despite the stern declarations from Washington about Iran's nuclear program, is living with a nuclear-capable Iran inevitable?  “I would draw a big distinction between being nuclear-capable, and having nuclear weapons,” says Ploughshares Fund grantee Jim Walsh of MIT’s Security Studies Program “Japan is nuclear-capable; any country that has some stock of high-enriched uranium or recyclable plutonium in theory could make a bomb…. We can live with a country that may have the technical capability, but demonstrates in its political commitments and behavior … that it will not cross that line. That’s what we should be shooting for with Iran,” he says. “Iran knows how to build a centrifuge. It knows how to enrich uranium. And it’s unlikely that anything we do right now will change that.”