On November 24th, Secretary of State John Kerry stepped to the podium in Vienna to report that negotiations have brought the parties very close to achieving a comprehensive deal to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran, but that more time was needed.

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Just as Barack Obama finished eulogizing Chuck Hagel’s tenure as Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State John Kerry came on the air from Vienna to announce more unfortunate news: the P5+1 negotiating team was unable to come to a comprehensive nuclear agreement with Iran before today’s deadline.

The U.S. maintains a stockpile of nearly 5,000 nuclear warheads, a number that is, thankfully, a mere fraction of our Cold War high of over 30,000. But reducing the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal over the years has not resulted in a diminished capa…