Official Washington is full of impasses; we are truly fortunate when we have the means to avoid them in our personal lives. One of the many rewards of living in the Charlottesville area is a luncheon date with others who share a strong interest in things nuclear. We’ve been meeting one a month or so for eight years. We are a diverse bunch. There’s Houston Wood, born and raised in Mississippi, who is a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Virginia and a renowned expert on centrifuges. He expressed deep skepticism about the U.S. intelligence community’s complian...