I was publisher of the wall street journal. I spent quite some time overseeing the Digital Businesses of the journal. I consider myself, in fact, maybe the oldest possible digital native. I oversaw businesses that were based on what we then called electronic publishing even before the internet in the 1990s, so i lived in a time before the internet, before Technology Policy was aimed at encouraging innovation back in the 80s and 9s 90s and before government was heavily involved in regulating communications telephones, other technologies. The internet was different in the 1990s. It was liberating, it was permissionless, it was very little government regulation. Were all beneficiaries of that, and my column tries to identify areas where we may be black siding backsliding or where we may be suppressing innovation or not making the most of this extraordinary opportunity. Host well, youve written that washington is a disaster for innovation disaster area for innovation. Why do you write that
And one of the reasons they oppose this agreement, and i invite you to talk to the Intel Community about that is that they see themselves losing the cover of the Nuclear Umbrella that they had hoped to have for their that fair rows activities. Theres nothing here to prevent us from bushing back going forward. Were all free to Work Together to build the pushback against the destabilizing activities. But let me ask you a simple question, is iran empowered more destabilizing the region with a Nuclear Weapon or stripped of that ability with an International Agreement it has to live up to, and us coming in underneath with a whole set of other security arrangements and pushback . I think the answer is crystal cheer. You asked what happens with respect to year 15. Under the modified 3. 1 code, please focus on what happens. Theres not some sudden breakoff at the end of 15 years. They are under remarkable restraints specifically the comprehensive safeguards agreement they have to negotiate with
They are not sitting there thinking they will get to do what they want to do. I invite you to talk to the Intel Community about that, they will document it they see themselves losing for their activities. Theres nothing here to prevent us from pushing back the irgj and others Going Forward. Congress and others were all free to Work Together to build the pushback against the destabilizing activities. Let me ask you a question, was iran stripped of that and us coming in with a whole new set of security arrangements and push back . I think the answer to that is crystal clear. You asked the question of what happens with respect to year 15. Folks, according to the modified code please focus on what happens. Theres not a breakoff at the end of 15 years and they are remarkable constraints specifically the comprehensive safeguards agreement they have to negotiate with the iaea that goes on forover provides the aiea with the obligation to insure the material is not diverted to Nuclear Weapons a
Provides a new tool for resolving such disputes within a short period of time so the iaea gets the acis needs within 24 days. This is the first time there is a cutoff in time. But of course most important to complement that is environmental sampling provides sensitive measurement of microscopic measurements of Nuclear Materials even after attempts are made to remove the material and in a 2003 example found undeclared Nuclear Material even after iran denied access for six months. The combination of the measures and the coherence of the p5 1 dram dramatically increase the risk. For example any attempt to enrich to highly enriched uranium at any time must earn a sharp response by any means. A steep response must be clear from the start for any violation of the agreement. The blocking the covert path i should emphasis will always rely of course on the work of the American Intelligence Community and those of our friends and our allies. The deal is based on science and analysis. Because of t
Hezbollah, shia militias hamas and the assad regime. If this deal goes through how would you propose to keep this newfound wealth out of the hands of terrorists and tyrants . Next, while im glad that iran will be limited in its development of advanced centrifuges for eight years i worry what happens down the road. After the research and Development Ban expires, iran could quickly move towards the next stage of its enrichment activities. Id like to know what other provisions in the deal, if any, will mitigate this risk. Finally i have a fundamental concern that 15 years from now iran will essentially be off the hook. If they choose irans leaders could produce weapons grade highly enriched uranium without limitation. They could use advanced centrifuges to speed this progress even further. This amounts to iran being a legitimatized Nuclear Threshold state in the year 2030. My big question is this what happens then . Are we back to square one . Is this deal just pushing pause for 15 years