The Iran Nuclear Deal: Past, Present, and Future
Since it was negotiated in 2015, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran (JCPOA) has rarely been out of the headlines. In 2021, the world is watching to see if the deal has a future and, if so, how all parties can chart a path back. There is a lot of misunderstanding about what the deal is, what it did and what the options are for the future. For that discussion, it is particularly important to understand the science and technology basis for its nuclear restrictions, and the interaction between technical and political judgements that are woven into the structure of the JCPOA.
Corey Hinderstein is Vice President of International Fuel Cycle Strategies at the Nuclear Threat Initiative based in Washington, DC where she focuses on international nuclear fuel cycle policy, improving global nuclear security, as well as arms control and nonproliferation verification. She led the development and launch of the World Institute for Nuclear Security (WINS), an international organization based in Vienna, Austria played a significant role in NTI's initiative to create an international low-enriched uranium bank at the International Atomic Energy Agency. From 2015 through 2017, Hinderstein was senior coordinator for nuclear security and nonproliferation policy affairs at the Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation office of the National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Hinderstein is editor of Cultivating Confidence: Verification, Monitoring, and Enforcement for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons (Nuclear Threat Initiative, 2010) and co-author of the Innovating Verification: New Tools and New Actors to Reduce Nuclear Risks report series. Hinderstein is a past president and Fellow of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) and serves on the board of directors for WINS. She also serves on Idaho National Laboratory's Nuclear Science and Technology Strategic Advisory Committee and the Executive Advisory Group for Global Security at Sandia National Laboratories.
