time is not on your side. As time goes by, we are increasing our arsenal.

The storage pond was empty. There are no spent fuel rods there,

Are they bluffing? I don't think so.

The North Koreans were using the Iranian example as well, saying that if they are allowed to keep a reactor, why can't we?

Both of them blinked,

An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people